Tag: STATISTICS

Something feels a little wrong about having to rely on a company that defines itself as a social media analyst to discover fully 15% of the Twitter users that follow more than 2,000 accounts on the social network identify themselves as "social media marketers." that of the people who identify themselves as marketers, 15% follow more than 2,000 people compared to 0.3% of total Twitter users ...

With the release of Ubuntu 9.04 and developments like Moblin and HP's MIE creating quite stir, plenty of people were saying that 2009 would be 'the year of Linux on the desktop.' Not that the statement hasn't been made before, but there appeared to be some real momentum this time around. Enter the Windows 7 RC. A quick look at StatCounter's most recent data shows Linux use at .71% and ...

Although there's no doubt that Twitter is the current reigning social status update king of the hill, upstart FriendFeed is certainly a more than viable alternative. FriendFeed does everything Twitter can do and much, much more right out of the box, aggregating all of your feeds (including your Twitter stream) into a single unified online presence. If you're already using FriendFeed, you might be ...

Here's something that was practically made to be reblogged on Tumblr: TumblrStats, which generates some slick pie charts of your Tumblr activity. How many reblogs versus original posts did you make? How much of your content was photo, video or text? TumblrStats will also tell you how frequently you post to Tumblr, including a number for your peak posts-per-day. Because of the quick and easy ...

With all the uproar about third-party Twitter app security and authorization, I thought it would be nice to talk about a Twitter site that works without logging in. Twitterfriends generates statistics about your conversations on Twitter: what percentage of your posts are @replies? What percentage are links? Who do you talk to the most? Twitterfriends can tell you all of this. It also provides a ...

Web analytics company SiteMeter has rolled out a major update to its free and premium web stats tracking service. The new version of SiteMeter is full of new charts and graphs that let you see how a web site is performing at a glance. The update is also supposed to do a better job of accurately tracking unique visits and page views. One of the biggest changes for web publishers is that you no ...

New web apps often make a lot of claims that just don't hold up under testing. When I decided to put Quarkbase.com through the paces, I fully expected to be underwhelmed. After all, their motto is "Everything About A Website." Holy information overload Batman, this one really surprised me. Pick a domain and hit search, then give Quarkbase a chance to dig up its research. They say to wait about ...

Results from a new survey by Marshal are in, and apparently 29% percent of the respondents to a recent survey admitted they made purchases from spam messages. That number is up from a 2004 survey in which only 20% admitted doing so. I was all set to vent about people getting sucked in when I realized something: who cares? Marshal's VP of Products, Bradley Anstis, said "Many of us often question ...

GBTV #337 | Introducing Woopra from Neal Campbell on Vimeo. There's no shortage of packages for tracking statistics on visitors to your blog or web site. But we have to say, Woopra looks like it could blow the competition out of the water. That's because it offers real-time stats tracking, showing you a list of who's on your site right now, where they came from, and what they're looking at. ...

Most word processors will give you some basic statistics about documents you're working on, like a word count. But what if you want to see how many words, paragraphcs, sentences, characters, and spaces are in a text-based document without opening it up in a word processor? Text Stat is a lightweight, open source Windows application that will let you analyze any TXT or HTML file. In addition to ...

I haven't met two small business owners in a meeting where one doesn't ask how to get his or her site to the top of the Google search results list. There are transparent reasons for wanting to be first: you get more clicks, your business seems important, clicks convert into business, and your Internet traffic can skyrocket. What's the magic formula for getting to the top? There is no magic formula ...

Have you ever wondered how many diseases there are in the world right at this moment? Wondered to the extent that you would like it broken down into noncommunicable diseases, and infectious diseases? How about how many injuries of the various most common types (traffic accidents, falls, drownings, poisonings, etc) or how many deaths have happened? The World Clock at Poodwaddle is a little ...

Shaun Inman's Mint quickly rose to the top of our list of web stats tracking tools as it offers a powerful, customizable interface and a rich plug-in architecture that has quite a following. After launching Mint v2 back in January of this year, Inman has been releasing minor .x version updates to address the usual bugs and other quirks, but a new Mint v2.12 release brings some minor new ...

Mint is a powerful, extensible web statistics package from Shaun Inman, web designer extraordinaire. With a wide array of plug-ins that can even incorporate stats from other services like FeedBurner, Mint is a one stop, self-installable shop for virtually any and all stats you will ever have to view for your site. In fact, one of Mint's strengths is that it can be customized to scale down ...

Shortly after we discovered web statistics site Xinu, the developer's servers seem to have overloaded, because users reported that the site was unavailable. Well, it looks like Xinu's been resurrected. The developer has published the source code under a creative commons license and listed a series of mirrors where you can check out the service. The developer suggests that the code isn't ...