Posts Tagged ‘search engines

It’s official. According to the IE Dev Blog at MSDN, MSIE8 will be the direct upgrade path via Windows Update in the third week of April. [here]
I discussed the slow decrease in MSIE6 browser share earlier today, but it is not occurring fast enough for my liking. It is a browser from what seems like [...]

Via Statcounter, here is my search engine distribution for a log of 2,000 hits.

With statistics like these, is there really any point in having other search engines?

The Web analytics firm StatCounter has released a set of metrics that mines their entire dataset to provide worldwide metrics on browsers, searches, and operating systems.
This is the kind of data that everyone should be interested in. And it’s free. Check it out at StatCounter GlobalStats.

Since 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 [...]

Steven Hodson of WinExtra posted a screenshot of his personal Wordpress stats for the last three years last night. I then posted my stats for a similar period of time, and Steven shot back with some question about traffic, and the ebbs and flows of readers.
Being the stats nut that I am, I went and [...]

Ok, for the average viewer a 0.25 second improvement doesn’t look like much.
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However, this is extrememly deceptive. The searches were using the the bare minimum terms necessary.
http://www.feedster.com/search.php?q=[SEARCH TERM]
This stopped working correctly last night. Effectively, it looks like Feedster’s Date Search is broken. How did I figure this out? Well, the size of the results [...]

Ok, this is a little weird.
First, go look at this page.
What’s weird in this data is the difference that you can see between the one-word and the two-word searches.
I was asked to look into this by someone at one of the Blog Search Engines (who shall remain anonymous), under the suspicion that there would be [...]

When I look at my logs, I am always astounded by the items visitors come to read.
The one posting that I am most proud of is this one, where I do not sing the praises of Gutter Helmet.
b2evolution only maintains local hit logs for 30 days. In that time, there is a serious pattern appearing.
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Ensight and Blog Herald both discuss the floundering and thrashing of Technorati.
My take is that they are having a success failure.

© 2005 GrabPERF
This is how long it takes their servers to deliver on a simple search for “new york”. I have discussed at various points throughout the last week that there are some steps that [...]

I don’t. I just checked my blog stats for referrals from search engines.

Technorati outpaces Google. All because I started tagging my posts.
Cool.

Technorati: SEO, Google, Technorati


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