Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
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 [...]
In: GrabPERF
12 Aug 2007It has been at least a year since I last updated everyone on the state of GrabPERF. That’s because for most of the last year, the system has been rolling along without a hitch or a major systemic change. The last major change to the agent code was alomost exactly a year ago, when I [...]
In: Life| RANTING| Technology
16 Jan 2007Ok, now that I have your attention…
Nissan has a test program in Japan that is placing receivers in cars to alert drivers when children wearing special RFID/WiFi bracelets are in the area. This is supposedly for the protection of the children. [here]
Do you see a few problems with this, mainly due to the naivete of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In: Blogging| RANTING| Software| Technology| Web Performance
15 Nov 2005Help Center: Supporting Google Analytics.
How long does it take to see report data after adding the tracking code?
After you first install the tracking code, it may take several hours for report data to appear in your account. Google Analytics generally updates your reports every hour, but data can take up to 6 hours to appear [...]
In: RANTING
20 Oct 2005The EFF is letting us know that the US Government (your government, not mine) has secretly collaborated with printer manufacturers to embed a unique tracking code in every document coming from your colour printer. [here]
Via: Travis Smith
In: smp
21 Sep 2005The Slacker Manager had a great post about Fast Tracking yourself. [here]
When I read the article, I realized two things:
I was coming up on my two-year anniversary with my current employer with no change in responsibilities or roles
I was going to break one of the SM’s cardinal rules
Some days it doesn’t pay to get out [...]
Oh, lookee here. GW Shrub appears to be backtracking. Now Karl has to be convicted before he gets fired.
Mr. President, if he’s convicted, you are most likely going to be down in Crawford, TX having an extended vacation. And the Acting President will most likely be Mr. Hastert. [Presidential Order of Succession]
Hey, I hear San [...]
In: RANTING
4 May 2005Gee, want to make those searches even more powerful? How about we track exactly where every person on the Web is going by tracking them using a piece of software that they install on their own computers?
Google Web Accelerator. The latest from Big Brother those folks at Google.
This also explains why Google wanted to buy [...]