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StatCounter Browser Stats – March 1-24 2009
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, [...]
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- Tags: Asia, China, European Union, Firefox, Firefox 3.0, India, Japan, Microsoft, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Windows, MSIE 6.0, MSIE 7.0, MSIE 8.0, Oceania, Opera 9.6, Safari, South America, South Korea, StatCounter, StatCounter GlobalStats, United States, web application, web applications, web compliance reasons, Web designers nightmare, Web development, Windows 2000
My desk after two years
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7 Jan 2009Two years ago, I bought my first digital camera, and snapped this picture.
Today, I repeated the picture. Much more chaos.
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- Tags: desk, digital camera, my desk, workspace
Upgrade to 2.7 Complete
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11 Dec 2008Newest Industry is now upgraded to Wordpress 2.7. You will notice no changes. I like that!
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Why Web measurements? The Series.
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8 Dec 2008In my life as a consultant, I often discuss What Web performance data means and how to interpret it to solve problems. Solving the problems is, however, inherently based on whether the data that is collected is meaningful. In trying to find data that is meaningful, we have found that there are four categories that [...]
Why Web Measurements? Part IV: Technical Operations
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8 Dec 2008In the first three parts of this series, the focus has been on the business side of the business: Customer Generation, Customer Retention, and Business Operations. The final component of any discussion of why companies measure their Web performance falls down to Technical Operations.
Why is Technical Operations last?
This part of the conversation is the last, [...]
SEESMIC: Leopards of the Living Room
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8 Dec 2008Jungle cats of the living room
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GrabPERF: Three New Measurement Locations
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12 Nov 2008In the last 24 hours, thanks to the help of some willing volunteers, GrabPERF has seen the addition of three new measurement locations:
Dallas, TX (USA)
Virginia (USA)
London, UK
All of these location have been graciously provided by the team at e-planning.
Thanks to all of you who volunteer your machines and bandwidth for this project.
As always, we are [...]
MacBook – Day One
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21 Oct 2008MacBook – Day One
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Technorati 1,000,000 – Help Me Break Into It!
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10 Oct 2008<sarcasm>
Currently, the Newest Industry sits at #1,106,225 in the Technorati Charts. I’m looking to break into the Technorati 1,000,000 before Christmas.
If Chris Brogan can get into the Technorati 100, I know I can do this!
Help me break into this elite group!
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FriendFeedHolic – A Social Media Ranking Model for Advertising and Marketing Success
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30 Sep 2008One of the most challenging things in social media is finding the conversation leaders. Those people who drive the conversation, and create a community.
FriendFeedHolic (ffholic) has taken the base knowledge that exists in FriendFeed and added a ranking mechanism to it based on input and output. In fact, they weight the participation in the FriendFeed [...]