Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Browsers| GrabPERF| Internet| The Web| Uncategorized| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
24 Mar 2009Using the visitor trending data collected and shared by StatCounter, I have undertaken a general analysis of browser distribution by global region. These metrics are collected using the embedded tags that StatCounter customers embed on their site to collect visitor metrics for their own use.
US data shows that MSIE 7.0 is in a dominant position, [...]
In: Life
22 Aug 2007My system has a daily job to collect and aggregate the IP Blocks distributed by the five registrars into a single database, and then provide high-level WHOIS information for this data. If you want to try this yourself, the interface here.
On an extremely irregular basis, I aggregate the statistics from this data, and present it [...]
In: Canada| Immigration| Life| RANTING
13 Jul 2007As many readers know, I am going through the process — if you call filing a bunch of paperwork and not hearing anything for 2 years a process — of obtaining Permanent Residency in the United States, often referred to as the Green Card.
This morning, on NPR, there was a story about a foul-up in [...]
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland
“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of [...]
In: smp
22 Sep 2005Here are the IP Block and Address allocation by registrar, as well as the number of officially allocated IP Addresses in each country (with 65536 Hosts or more) as of September 22, 2005 00:30 UTC.
This data has been extracted from the GrabIP database
IP REGISTRAR BREAKDOWN
registry NUM_HOSTS NUM_BLOCKS
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arin [...]
In: smp
29 Aug 2005Here are the IP Block and Address allocation by registrar, as well as the number of officially allocated IP Addresses in each country (with 65536 Hosts or more) as of August 29, 2005 00:30 UTC.
This data has been extracted from the GrabIP database
IP REGISTRAR BREAKDOWN
registry NUM_HOSTS NUM_BLOCKS
——– ———- ———-
arin [...]
In: smp
17 Aug 2005Here are the IP Block and Address allocation by registrar, as well as the number of officially allocated IP Addresses in each country (with 65536 Hosts or more) as of August 17, 2005 00:30 UTC.
This data has been extracted from the GrabIP database
IP REGISTRAR BREAKDOWN
registry NUM_HOSTS NUM_BLOCK
——– ———- ———
arin [...]
In: smp
23 May 2005Dr. Blaise Cronin (the name sounds like the nom de plume of an agent provocateur), author of a justly ridiculed and narrow-minded critique of blogging, has re-appeared just in time for the Summer Solstice. [here and here]
This man is an island. And he has lost the perspective that come from spending too much time in [...]
In: RANTING
4 May 2005The Dean of the School of Library and Information Sciences at Indiana University, Blaise Cronin, maintains an open mind about blogging. [here]
One wonders for whom these hapless souls blog. Why do they choose to expose their unremarkable opinions, sententious drivel and unedifying private lives to the potential gaze of total strangers? What prompts this particular [...]