This is a very Google like way to communicate when something is not working fine. I’ll try to apply it with my clients… Just in case you can’t visualize the text: “Google Trends is very popular right now and we could’t process your request please try again in a few seconds”.
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Google launched some feature imprevements
Last month Google launched some feature improvements for their flamboyant Google Analytics version. Those improvements are: – “Go to box:” This function is very usefull since it allows you to jump direct to an specific row instead of scrolling up and down. If you have 5,000 referring sources and you want to see row 3,456, you can jump right to it. – The Map Overlay report view now defaults to Country instead of Subcontinent. – Content reports now have a Segment menu so you can cross-segment pages and sets of pages by referral source, keyword, visitor type, and other visitor
Continue readingComplacency ‘rife’ in IT projects
Many European IT workers are not being held responsible for delivering projects late, a new study suggests. It found that 51% of European IT professionals said there would be no risk to their job, compared 33% in Asia and 22% in the Americas. ALL IT PROJECTS ON TIME Sweden 44% Switzerland 24% Czech Republic 20% Germany 19% Denmark 16% UK 11% Finland 8% Israel 8% France 6% Belgium 4% Italy 4% Netherlands 4% Russia 4% Spain 4% Source: EIU/HP The study was conducted by HP and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) which spoke to 1,125 professionals worldwide. They said Sweden
Continue readingPacket Sniffing for Web Analytics – Amazing Interview to Ivo Rehberger from Nextwell
In order to understand the application of Packet Sniffer for Web Analytics proposes I interviewed Ivo Rehberger, founder, Development Manager and the main software architect of Nextwell. He has a doctoral degree in technical cybernetics, and has published many articles in technical journals and e-zines. In NEXTWELL he is responsible for research and development. Netwell commercializes a very interesting product called Clipen which is awfully usefull for Analytics proposes. JUAN: What’s packet sniffer? IVO: Generally, packet sniffer is an application (or sometimes appliance) that captures packets from a network and stores them on a hard drive. The term sniffer has probably its origin
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Some time ago I’ve wrote the post “What are Log File Analysis and Page Tagging?” about the most popular web analytics technologies “Page tagging” and “Log file analyzers”. I received a comment from Ivo Rehberger (Development Manager, Nextwell) in which he mentioned the advantages of Packet sniffing over the other two technologies. I just omitted this third technology because I wanted to mention the two most popular, but I do agree with Ivo, this technology is as good as the other two and is important at least to mention it (with pros and cons). …”One of the most important advantage
Continue readingWhen your traffic meet the users…
I’ve tested or at least investigate almost every web analytics tools, both log file analyzers and Page Tagging. I love to see how this companies are focus on improving front end stuff, or adding 3000 different reports (most of them doesn’t fit your needs), but none is focus on what I think really matters in web analytics. – Flexibility: Every single project is different and it has to be fixed to the corporate strategy, so how could be possible to use one of the “3000 standard report”, and even if you agree on reviewing each of them, it takes you
Continue readingAJAX when obvious is not so obvious
This days one of the most mentioned terms is AJAX, it seems that everybody knows what does it mean but as my friend Sebastian Rosenfeld says, the obvious is not so obvious, so let’s take a look to the Wikipedia definition.
Continue readingWhat are Log File Analysis and Page Tagging?
Normally we talk about web stats tools as one unique thing but in fact there are two very different technologies that most of web stats tool use, those are Log File Analysis and Page Tagging: What are Log File Analysis and Page Tagging? Log File Analysis: Web log analysis software (also called a web log analyzer) is software that parses a log file from a web server (like Apache), and based on the values contained in the log file, derives indicators about who, when and how a web server is visited. The indicators reported by most of web log analyzers
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