Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Browsers| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
13 Apr 2009It’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 [...]
In: Web analytics| analytics| search
22 Mar 2009Via 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?
In: Blogging| Commentary
14 Sep 2008Steven 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 [...]
In: GrabPERF
19 Oct 2005Ok, 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 [...]
In: GrabPERF
16 Oct 2005Ok, 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 [...]
In: Gutter Helmet
6 Oct 2005When 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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In: GrabPERF
13 Jul 2005Ensight 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 [...]
In: smp
16 Jun 2005I 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
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 [...]