Though I would still hope developers are a little more exploritary than regular users, and would poke around a bit rather than just hitting back.

I made a similar comment to Stu when he first pointed it out, i.e. “well you’d assume people end up at the site by knowing what it is about, you’re not going to randomly fall on it”. To which his reply was, “Well I did, I just clicked through from the Scotch on the Rocks site and had no idea what it was…”

So that was the basis for my post, and the fact that the homepage doesn’t tell you what it is about is a big issue in my opinion, users just love to click the back button.

On the other hand… assuming you randomly found it without specifically being referred to it as a CFML engine, and assuming you haven’t heard of Fusebox.Model-Glue/Mark Drew, (both of which I’d consider unlikely), but looking at it and thinking “WTF is this?” my natural reaction is to click the big FAQ link. Followed by General, and the first item is “What is Railo?” that explains exactly what it is.
So, considering that most people visiting the page will have been referred to it in some fashion, I don’t think it’s that bad.

Although what does often bug me is none of the pages having titles. Which I’m going to go moan about on the mailing list now. ;)