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| 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: RANTING| Technology| Web Performance
15 Nov 2005So, you think that Google Analytics is hot and cool?
So, have you had any visitors yet?
I haven’t.
But hey, what about those silly Web server logs that say that I have had many, many visitors?
We are the Google; your data cannot be tracked; therefore, it is irrelevant.
So far, I am not impressed.
And I am not alone. [...]
In: smp
26 Sep 2005For all you local vloggers, there is a vlogging mini-conference coming up in Worcester, MA.
When: Monday, October 3rd, 6 p.m.
Who: You and your interested friends
What: “Meet the Vloggers” Worcester
Why: To learn more about videoblogging and build community
Directions to WPI: http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/directions.html
Campus map to find the Campus Center:
http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/Images/walkingmap.pdf
(The Campus Center is #6, behind Alumni Gym (#3) and [...]
In: smp
24 Jun 2005I should explain that. I am no longer inserting the blog traffic into my Web server log database. The amount of crap was getting ridiculous, and taking up too much space.
By doing this, I reduced about 50 days of logs from 450,000 rows to 81,000 rows, a better representation of the traffic that my other [...]
In: smp
23 Jun 2005Ok, I don’t have the most amazing traffic in the world, but here are the Search Engine results for the past 1100 visitors.
Technorati is still out front!
Graph courtesy of StatCounter.
Technorati: SEO, Technorati, Google, StatCounter
In: RANTING
2 Jun 2005Ok, started to notice a dramtic and sudden increase in traffic to my site yesterday. Turns out that all of these folks were headed to the same place at this host:
/index.php?disp=stats
So, when I checked this out, they were all indicating referrals from the usual illicit medication and adult sites.
<sigh> More trackback and comment spam.
Now, I [...]
In: smp
4 May 2005I use StatCounter to track the visits to a few of my Web sites. Lately I have discovered a number of visitors that are logged as coming from Private IP Space addresses (10.0.0.0/8, etc.).
I know what’s happening here. These folks are behind proxy servers. When they request the StatCounter object, it is actually requested from [...]
In: smp
6 Apr 2005Back in November, I mentioned that I was working on the idea of new ways to benchmark the success of online businesses in today’s more mature operational environment. I am still working on the base ideas, but a colleague of mine has helped me coalesce some ideas, and they are now forming the foundation of [...]
In: Life
24 Mar 2005Travis Smith points to this AP article on the death of the family in the two-income world. [here]
Samantha and I have discussions about this topic on a regular basis. We are a one-income family by choice and by restriction (Visa restrictions prevent Samantha from working in the US). However, the concept of scheduling our children’s [...]