analytics

This is a pretty cool site - they track the performance of the top viewed videos across multiple video sharing sites, and show how they are performing over time. Click on a video and you can not only watch it, but see a chart of how many blog posts it's getting over time.

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Many asked me about Google Analytics Api and the possibility to use analytics data on their own application and there are ...

Interesting in-depth comparison of two very similar products.

Quoted: In almost eighteen months of blogging this is a first: a comparison of two tools. I have not done comparison of various tools thus far, by design, mostly

Of course you need your own Google Analytics Administrator Account, if you don’t already have one. Then I add a non-admin user for each of my clients websites, making sure to only allow access to their individual accounts. I personally like using a system so that each new user’s email address is domain.tld@gmail.com…

We've doubled our site traffic in the last three months. I also give a breakdown by country. Number 2 is a surprise!

A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats with built-in affiliate program.

Quoted: piwik is an open source (GPL license) web analytics software. It gives interesting reports on your website visitors, your popular pages, the search engines keywords they used, the language they speak… and so much more.

piwik aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics.

I'm trying to calculate the cross-over point when active Facebook users will surpass active MySpace users.

NetRatings says that MySpace has more than twice as many unique users as Facebook. But their growth rate is 33% annual, as opposed to 129% on facebook.

I think there's no question that this will happen sometime in the next 12 months - maybe as early as the end of the year.

The numbers don't match what Facebook is saying now. They claim 33M unique users (as opposed to 20M here). If the 100,000 new users a day all remain active, their annual growth rate is also closer to 300%.