Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Browsers| Internet| Technology| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
11 Jun 2009I have been monitoring this trend for a couple of weeks to see if it remained constant, and it appears to be a real thing. Since the end of May 2009, Internet Explorer 7’s browser share in the US has collapsed, with a requisite increase in the use of Firefox 3.0.
This is a staggering change. [...]
In: Browsers| Technology| The Web
3 Sep 2008Recently there was an outage at a hit-tracking vendor I was using to track the hits on my externally hosted blog, leaving me with a gap in my visitor data several hours long. While this was an inconvenience for me, I realized that this could be mission critical failure to an online business reliant on [...]
I got a comment from someone yesterday saying that they couldn’t get to their Statcounter Web site stats. I thought it was an issue on the user end and he reported that he finally got in with another browser.
Well, I just tried with all three of my browsers and I can’t get to the Statcounter [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
14 Mar 2006This afternoon, StatCounter showed a marked increase in performance.
Normally I wouldn’t highlight an issue that only lasted an hour, but this appears to have been a very unusual issue that saw the page size decrease to nearly nothing, and performance shoot up to around 45 seconds. This combination usually indicates a back-end application timeout which [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
8 Mar 2006The Site Statistics | Web Analytics Index measurements have been running now for about 2.5 days, and I wanted to make some general comments on what I am seeing.
The methodolgy for testing is straightforward. I chose sites | services that allowed you to create a free (if limited) account to track your Web visitors, and [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
7 Mar 2006I have now launched the GrabPERF Site Statistics Index. The current members are:
StatCounter
SiteMeter
ShinyStats
OneStat
If you know of or represent a firm that I have missed, please drop me an email or a comment.
Technorati Tags: GrabPERF, Web performance, StatCounter, SiteMeter, OneStat, ShinyStats, Site Statistics, Web Analytics, performance index
You’ll notice that I have added the SiteMeter and StatCounter logos to the sidebar. Yes, I am a stats freak, but I also wanted to monitor how quickly each of these two services can deliver a page of basic stats to someone who clicks on the links.
So far, you can see the performance difference here.
I [...]
Blog Statistics Analysis: Page Views by Day of Week, or When to Post
In: Blogging| Commentary
16 Sep 2008Since I started self-hosting this blog again on August 6 2008, I have been trying to find more ways to pull traffic toward the content that I put up. Like all bloggers, I feel that I have important things to say (at least in the area of Web performance), and ideas that should be read [...]