The Facebook redesign is slowly being accepted as it slowly rolls out

September 3, 2008 | Eric Eldon

Will Facebook users like the site’s new redesign? The company made a big bet by re-orienting users to feeds of information. The new version is already available as an opt-in option, and it’s slated to fully replace the old version later this fall. Today, web analytics firm Compete has crunched its own data, and the results are in.

I’ve already tried to puzzle out that question through related third-party reports (redesign is good for sharing information), anecdotal evidence (redesign is confusing) and my own opinion (redesign is the future).

Facebook users do like the redesign….

….Although not all at once:

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About the Author, Eric Eldon

Eric currently covers digital media technology and business, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He writes and edits stories about lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a now-failed startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers.