Top 5 improvements to the sneak peek site
A month ago, we introduced you to a sneak preview of the changes coming soon to Gumtree. We’re really glad so many of you took the time to tell us what you thought. We’ve taken your feedback, the good along with the bad (well, we didn’t think we’d get it right the first time round), and can now show you an updated version with the top 5 improvements you wanted for the new Gumtree:
- A truly local search in your area*
How you search and find what you want has remained a big focus for us. In December, we introduced the ability to search in your city and neighbouring cities (see the Before picture). Now, you can zoom in and search in your local area. E.g. Not only can you now search for a 1-bed flat in Islington, you’ll also be able to search in Angel. If there aren’t enough results in Angel, we’ll also show you 1-bed flats available in nearby areas like King’s Cross and Old Street.
- Search by postcode or area name
Currently, you have to select the city you want to search in using a drop-down menu (see the Before picture above). We’ve taken away the drop-down, and you can freely enter any area you like, whether it’s by postcode (full or partial) or your area name. This will bring you more focused results, and should save you time having to look through lots of irrelevant ads.
- See prices at a glance in results
You’ve told us you’d like to see prices of items or services without clicking on each individual ad. We’ve added a price column in the main results page, which means you can now scan through prices quickly.
- Faster page loading times
More pictures on the site means pages take a little longer to load. We don’t want your search on Gumtree to be slowed down by this, so we took a close look at our website code, and have improved page loading times.
- Improved category structure
Following your advice, we’ve adjusted our category structure to make it easier to find what you’re looking for when browsing the site E.g. Musical Instruments has been given its own sub-category directly under Stuff for Sale
* For now, this is only available in London. We’ll be introducing these changes to the rest of UK in our next update.
Along with these improvements, we’ve also fixed a number of kinks you found in the system, like problems using the site with Internet Explorer 6 or pictures not appearing in some Firefox browsers.
We think we’re moving in the right direction so far – the number of replies to ads posted on the sneak peek site has increased by 20%. We know there’s lots more work to be done. We’re still working on improving the look of the site after hearing your thoughts, and hope to show you new designs soon. And we’ll also be introducing all these exciting changes to Gumtree Ireland as well.
If you haven’t tried the new Gumtree site yet, now’s a great time to opt in. We’re still gathering comments and suggestions, so please head over to our forum to tell us what you think.
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What happened to the map?
When I’m searching for something, the map view is best, because my main concern is if it’s worth travelling X time to save £Y.
On the “old” site, map view is now broken so you can’t view anything but the first page, and is still broken in some browsers. Also, we need at least 100 results per page in map view to make it truly useful.
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Is there any chance of an iPhone or mobile version of the site?
Why before I can received your emails and now a I am not
Hello, speaking on behalf of thousands of dyslexic people, would it be possible for the background to be displayed in a light pastel shade, even a cream? It makes things so much easier to read and does not harm anyone else.
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Awesome post, I am regular visitor of this blog, keep on posting that great content, and I will be a regular for a long time.
What happened to the map?
When I’m searching for something, the map view is best, because my main concern is if it’s worth travelling X time to save £Y.
On the “old” site, map view is now broken so you can’t view anything but the first page, and is still broken in some browsers. Also, we need at least 100 results per page in map view to make it truly useful.
good luck gumtree and staff keep it up things can only get better
ithink its really starting to improve its a really good site at the moment and as far as I am conserned things can on go forward good luck gumtree and staff for the future michael ayrshire
I can no longer search UK-wide for items. I was able to do this a few weeks ago, but now, whenever I type “United Kingdom” into the In or Near box, it defaults to London in the actual search.
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I like the new look but I would like it more if it were possible to be a little more specific when searching or browsing through categories. For example I notice that you used to be able to click on motorbikes and scooters and then select motorbikes OR scooters to browse through. This seems minor but it saves me having to search through listings that I don’t find relevant.
At the moment i’m searching for a flatmate and I would like it if it were possible to separate the potential flatmates by whether, they are male, female or a couple. Sub categories give users the choice of how specific they want the search to be. If i know exactly what I am looking for then why should i have to browse through hundreds of ads that are not relevant?
Thanks
Catrina
This is a great suggestion. I have sent it to the product team for consideration
For letting agents and landlords with lots of properties, we would really benefit from a way to submit property-to-let-ads using an API feed via XML, or RightMove-format. RightMove format is used by most major property listing sites. A custom API would be fine as well. It would make it much easier for us to manage our property listings.
I don’t see what’s special about that calculator. Looks like all the others out there.
My point was that for most people spending is too much, if you want to have a life and possibly save for retirement too.
The site you linked is nothing more than a basic calculator, something that excel can churn out all day. Am I missing something? Is there something special about this one?
I think you got too many adds you need a sale page or to delete adds after a shorter time. does not matter if renewed but getting cant see wood for trees. also you must make people more helpfull in title like insist on where area is and what is wanted or for sale more detail as so much time is wasted by short misleading titles that people surely would abandon the site, if their knackered out by misleading junk. somone one say flat wanted then you go in and find its an area specific and type specific why not this in heading. or car for sale. but not type or year . so more time wasted. people can be nuts if you dont guide them along.
Hello,
I WILL SUGGEST SOME MORE TO ADD INTO GUMTREE.
1)FOR EACH POST THERE IS NO TIMESTAMP-IT IS VERY EASY FOR USER at what time the AD is posted.(Its USER FRIENDLY)
2)FOR EACH JOB AD YOU ARE SHOWING – Click here to reply to this ad.In some cases it is unnecessary(suppose if i posted an ad for job and if i given my website/email-id).Don’t show that hyperlink.
3)FOR Ad viewed: xx times.It should be like as follows
Ad viewed: xx times-O’CLOCK
xx times- O’CLOCK like this.
4)you should put a one more column like VACANCY STATUS-OPEN/FILLED.YOU SHOULD GIVE A SERVICE NUMBER TO THE AD POSTER.IF THE POSITION IS FILLED THEN ASK HIM SEND A MESSAGE TO THAT NUMBER LIKE {AD NO,1}HERE 1 MEANS CURRENT POSITION FILLED.Based on that sms you should update the STATUS column for that Job Post.
these are just my suggestions only.
Thanks In Advance,
Chandu
Hello,
I WILL SUGGEST SOME MORE TO ADD INTO GUMTREE.
1)FOR EACH POST THERE IS NO TIMESTAMP-IT IS VERY EASY FOR USER at what the AD is posted.(Its USER FRIENDLY)
2)FOR EACH JOB AD YOU ARE SHOWING .In some cases it is unnecessary(suppose if i posted an ad for job and if i given my website/email-id).Don’t show that hyperlink.
3)FOR .It should be like as follows
like this.
4)you should put a one more column like VACANCY STATUS-OPEN/FILLED.YOU SHOULD GIVE A SERVICE NUMBER TO THE AD POSTER.IF THE POSITION IS FILLED THEN ASK HIM SEND A MESSAGE TO THAT NUMBER LIKE {AD NO,1}HERE 1 MEANS CURRENT POSITION FILLED.Based on that sms you should update the STATUS column for that Job Post.
these are just my suggestions only.
Thanks In Advance,
Chandu
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Really like it! Well done – this is going to make the site soooo much easier to use.