Statistical Data

SEO tricks

2012-01-21T09:02:00.000-08:00

A lot of books on the subject have been written down. Reality is through that the web and also the routines by Google are constantly updated. So the real tricks on how to get a higher pagerank are more scarce. Mosly to get that leading position is a lot of work too. Don't believe the firms that promise you everything but ask you to pay in advance for the service. You never know if they really will help you. Believe in the basic work. Good structures in websites, the right links to and from your site. Trust that time and work will bring you a good pagerank. And know that the best place goes to the best content that is appreciated by the most visitors.

Strength of Google Analytics

2011-03-31T22:34:00.000-07:00

The strenghth of Google Analytics is the time factor. They keep all data of all you websites for a long periode and you can compare the statistics of the diverse websites you have under you control. An example is the situation in Japan. After the disaster of the Nuclear Plant and the Earthquake I investigated how many visitors from Japan there were just before and after the happening. You discover how visitors from a certain area aren't there anymore.

Internet seems so abstract sometimes, but with these tools you can actually measure the social impact on Websites when disasters happen.

Oldest Counter on the blog

2010-12-04T00:13:00.000-08:00

The strenght of counters is that they show how many hits a blog gets. The oldest counter on this blog has risen to a high number. A lot of visitors after the start of this experiment.

New workshops

2010-12-04T00:08:00.000-08:00

Because of the new workshops at the college I will investigate some more developements in SEO and Statistics that are available online these days. Expect some more postings soon. The Internet has become a place on its own the last years. Online developements go very quickly and new tools are available every new year.

Poll Instrument

2010-07-16T11:06:00.001-07:00

When you had to choose between Mail-Art and Fluxus what would you choose?customer surveys

Sample of a Poll that can be placed on any platform. The Poll is kept track of by one single site with the database and this way the in formation grows fast from several sources when doing research.

SEO and SM

2010-03-11T06:04:00.001-08:00

Search Engine Optimalisation want to bring the websites to the public. Social Media (SM) lets people communicate on a horizontal level. These two don't always go hand in hand. People who search information often don't find the information they want. The people who earn money on bringing information to the public don't always bring the details the people want. How should these two merge together?

Twitter Principe

2010-02-15T02:57:00.000-08:00

Het principe van twitter wordt niet door iedereen begrepen. Het woord 'twitter' geeft echter aan dat alles door elkaar loopt. Je kunt filteren in wat je wilt volgen en andere twitteraars zullen hetzelfde doen. Net het filteren van informatie en het hebben van toegang tot zeer actuele informatie is de kracht van twitter.

Ruud Janssen

Statistics on this blog increase

2009-11-30T01:15:00.000-08:00

One of the Counters on this blog has been active for a few years now. It shows that the amount of visitors each month has been growing quite a bit. Search Engine Marketing is more important than ever since the amount of websites and webtools is growing. Who will find what on the Internet is the big question everybody is asking.

Google is using Twitter

2009-11-30T01:05:00.000-08:00

Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What's happening? Join today to start receiving google's tweets. That is what Google is doing.

See: http://twitter.com/google

op de volgende link trof ik ook enkele interessante feiten aan:

http://www.marketingfacts.nl/berichten/20070326_google_loves_twitter/

Dat Twitter in korte tijd ongelooflijk populair is geworden moge duidelijk zijn. Twitter was vorige week zelfs zo populair dat ze tijdelijk onbereikbaar waren. Twitter is echter niet alleen populair bij online marketing guru’s zoals Robert Scoble, Steve Rubel en Marco Derksen maar ook bij Google. Van alle drie de bovenstaande Guru’s komt hun Twitter nu al op de eerste Google pagina terecht wanneer er op hun naam gezocht wordt. En dat terwijl Marco bijvoorbeeld pas op 16 Maart is begonnnen met Twitteren. Scobles Twitter staat op de 7e positie onder zijn naam, Rubel’s Twitter zelfs al op de 5e positie. Een mogelijke verklaring kan liggen in de hoge frequentie van postings en de enorme hoeveelheid links die naar elkaars pagina’s worden gemaakt. Ik ben benieuwd welke lessen hier uit getrokken kunnen worden door Search Engine Optimizers. In ieder geval is het geen slecht idee om relevante namen alvast te registreren want het is duidelijk dat je met een Twitter op een relatief makkelijke manier veel Google-juice kan krijgen

Google Wave 2

2009-05-31T10:41:00.001-07:00

Google Wave has a lot of innovative features, but here are just a few:

- Real-time: In most instances, you can see what someone else is typing, character-by-character.

- Embeddability: Waves can be embedded on any blog or website.

- Applications and Extensions: Just like a Facebook() application or an iGoogle gadget, developers can build their own apps within waves. They can be anything from bots to complex real-time games.

- Wiki functionality: Anything written within a Google Wave can be edited by anyone else, because all conversations within the platform are shared. Thus, you can correct information, append information, or add your own commentary within a developing conversation.

- Open source: The Google Wave code will be open source, to foster innovation and adoption amongst developers.

- Playback: You can playback any part of the wave to see what was said.

- Natural language: Google Wave can autocorrect your spelling, even going as far as knowing the difference between similar words, like “been” and “bean.” It can also auto-translate on-the-fly.

- Drag-and-drop file sharing: No attachments; just drag your file and drop it inside Google Wave and everyone will have access.

While these are only a few of the many features of Google Wave, it’s easy to see why people are extremely excited.

Google Wave was the brainchild of a team based out of Sydney, Australia. The core team members are two brothers, Jens and Lars Rasmussen, and lead project manager Stephanie Hannon, all of whom were involved in Google Maps() previously. Google Wave was announced today at Google’s I/O Developer conference, although the product will not be available to the public for several months.

Source: http://mashable.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-guide/

Google Wave

2009-05-31T10:24:00.000-07:00

source: http://mashable.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-guide/

Today has been dominated by news and excitement surrounding Google Wave(), Google()’s new real-time communication platform that will launch to the public later this year. In fact, there’s been so much buzz that you might just not have enough time to read the thousands of articles being released on Google’s biggest product launch in recent memory.

To make sense of it all, we have compiled key information, definitions, and links related to the launch of Google Wave. This in-depth guide provides an overview of Google Wave, discusses the terminology associated with it, details information on Google Wave applications, (i.e. the Twitter Wave app Twave), and goes over ways to keep yourself informed. We know you’re excited about Google Wave, so here’s what we think you should know.

Google Wave actually has its own lingo - yes, you have to learn a few definitions if you’re going to really understand this new communication platform. Having knowledge of these terms will help you understand more about Google’s newest project.

- Wave: A wave, specifically, refers to a specific threaded conversation. It can include just one person, or it can include a group of users or even robots (explained below). The best comparison I can make is that it’s like your entire instant messaging (IM) history with someone. Anything you’ve ever discussed in a single chat or conversation is a wave.

- Wavelet: A wavelet is also a threaded conversation, but only a subset of a larger conversation (or a wave). It’s like a single IM conversation - a small part of a larger conversation and a larger history. Wavelets, though, can be created and managed separately from a wave.

- Blip(): Even smaller than a Wavelet, a Blip is a single, individual message. It’s like a single line of an IM conversation. Blips can have other blips attached to them, called children. In addition, blips can either be published or unpublished (once again, it’s sort of like typing out an IM message but not yet sending it).

- Document: A document actually refers to the content within a blip. This seems to refer to the actual characters, words, and files associated with a blip.

- Extension: An extension is a mini-application that works within a wave. So these are the apps you can play with while using Wave. There are two main types of extenisons: Gadgets and Robots

- Gadgets: A gadget is an application users can participate with, many of which are built on Google’s OpenSocial platform. A good comparison would be iGoogle gadgets or Facebook applications.

- Robots: Robots are an automated participant within a wave. They can talk with users and interact with waves. They can provide information from outside sources (i.e. Twitter()) or they can check content within a wave and perform actions based on them (i.e. provide you a stock quote if a stock name is mentioned).

- Embeded Wave: An embeded wave is a way to take a Google Wave and the conversation within it and place it on your website. Users could use this as a chatroom, as a way to contact you, or for something more.

Twitter

2009-05-31T09:18:00.000-07:00

Twitter as anomaly (#3) -- evolutionary de-evolution?

No one would have predicted that Twitter was going to be the next big thing, because it wasn’t/isn’t a logical “next step” in the evolution of the internet. Since html-based web pages put text and graphic files together on the same screen, the world wide web has been on a march to swallow all types of media and to embed them in ever-increasing quality (thank you, bandwidth). Twitter is “de-evolutionary”—taking us back to something that is simpler and even more constrained than basic text email.

Did the internet originally simply skip over Twitter (and is now going back to correct this mistake) or has Twitter actually arisen at its proper time and place?

source: http://something-about-twitter.tumblr.com/

by Allen Bukoff, PhD.
Social Psychologist.
Business consultant.
I am NOT a social media expert. There may not be any real experts on "social media" yet. It's probably too early for that. We don't even know where this is all going. But it looks like it's going to be an interesting ride. Especially Twitter! There's something really really fascinating and different about Twitter.

@bukoff on Twitter (the writer)
@iuoma onTwitter (that is me)

BING?

2009-05-29T00:14:00.000-07:00

A new searchengine is coming soon. See http://www.bing.com/ which will give you access as soon as it is online. The demovideo at http://www.decisionengine.com/Default.html gives you a glimps of what is coming. Microsoft tries to beat Google. We will see what the public thinks of this soon.....

Google Analytics

2009-04-26T00:36:00.000-07:00

Google Analytics offers a weath of possibilities when one wants to know all about a website. The only problem I see is that it is a commercial product that Google wan'ts to promote and when you use it and like it it might cause a problem of becoming dependent on the system. They made the analyses for free when your site doesn't generate too much traffic. You can monitor several sites from one console. Webdesignes and webmasters for sure will love this tool but eventually will need a subscription to have access to the data. But I must confess, the interface Google Analytics has designed is a fantastic tool for sure.

Details: http://www.google.com/analytics/

Off course I started the tracking tool from Google Analytics also on this blog. We will see what it bring and I will report on it later too.

Stats on 20-3-2009

2009-03-20T03:13:00.001-07:00

No changes on the BLOG for 4 months, still 2000 visitors to the blog. I must have done something right with this blog since the visitors come even without having any new information to tell you. Since a class of Mediatechnology gets a workshop on this theme, and I will use this blog as sample for some elements, I will publish a few new goodies here soon.....

Stats on 16-11-2008

2008-11-16T02:03:00.000-08:00

The hits come in even when this blog hasn't changed a bit for a few months. Seems that all the effort to make this blog found worked. A lot of visitors come in and learn about the things I found. That is great.

Choose HTML

2008-11-16T02:01:00.001-08:00

There is one main benefit of search engine marketing and that is web accessibility. The more accessible your website is to search engines, the more visits your website will get. Using good search engine marketing skills, you can ensure your website a top spot on most major search engines.

First, when trying to get the most from search engine marketing, you should consider assigning ALT Descriptions on your site, which are used by visually impaired visitors, who cannot understand images. To ensure proper accessibility, ALT description should be assigned to each and every image. By doing this you will not only be assisting your visually impaired visitors, you will also help raise your search engine rating, as well as benefit more from search engine marketing.

Next, in order to get the most from search engine marketing, it is always good to avoid embedding text in images on your website. There is strong evidence to suggest search engines assign less importance to embedded text in images. So to get the best results from search engine marketing it is best to avoid embedding text in your website images. It is best to use HTML.

Another good tip to getting the most from search engine marketing is to be sure to use plenty of link text in your written content. Search engines are generally known to place great importance on link text. So when at all possible, to get the most from search engine marketing, use plenty of link text on your website.

Finally, if you know anything at all about search engine marketing, or search engine optimization, it should be that your page title is among one of the most attributes on the page. If it properly describes the content of your page, more search engines will be able to more accurately interpret what your page is about, giving you more out of search engine marketing.

source: http://www.dimacc.com/search-engine-marketing.html

Motigo Counter New

2008-08-22T01:08:00.000-07:00

The Motigo Counter has a new feature in it. Thet call it the "Heat-Map". It has been activated to test the results. It takes 48 hours to be fully operational.

Search engine marketing (SEM)

2008-03-04T10:41:00.000-08:00

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Search engine marketing, or SEM, is a form of Internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine result pages (SERPs). According to the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization, SEM methods include: search engine optimization (or SEO), paid placement, and paid inclusion. Other sources, including the New York Times, define SEM as the practice of buying paid search listings.

Market structure

In 2006, North American advertisers spent US$9.4 billion on search engine marketing, a 62% increase over the prior year and a 750% increase over the 2002 year. The largest SEM vendors are Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Microsoft adCenter. As of 2006, SEM was growing much faster than traditional advertising.

History

As the number of sites on the Web increased in the mid-to-late 90s, search engines started appearing to help people find information quickly. Search engines developed business models to finance their services, such as pay per click programs offered by Open Text in 1996 and then Goto.com in 1998. Goto.com later changed its name to Overture in 2001, and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, and now offers paid search opportunities for advertisers through Yahoo! Search Marketing. Google also began to offer advertisements on search results pages in 2000 through the Google AdWords program. By 2007 pay-per-click programs proved to be primary money-makers for search engines.

Search engine optimization consultants expanded their offerings to help businesses learn about and use the advertising opportunites offered by search engines, and new agencies focusing primarily upon marketing and advertising through search engines emerged. The term "Search Engine Marketing" was proposed by Danny Sullivan in 2001 to cover the spectrum of activities involved in performing SEO, managing paid listings at the search engines, submitting sites to directories, and developing online marketing strategies for businesses, organizations, and individuals. In 2007 Search Engine Marketing is stronger than ever with SEM Budgets up 750% as shown with stats dating back to 2002 vs 2006.[citation needed]

Ethical questions

Paid search advertising hasn't been without controversy, and issues around how many search engines present advertising on their pages of search result sets have been the target of a series of studies and reports by Consumer Reports WebWatch, from Consumers Union. The FTC also issued a letter in 2002 about the importance of disclosure of paid advertising on search engines, in response to a complaint from Commercial Alert, a consumer advocacy group with ties to Ralph Nader.

Statistics Store Humor

2008-03-04T10:27:00.000-08:00

Statistics on 4-3-2008

2008-03-04T10:25:00.001-08:00

Smile about Statistics

2008-02-24T10:04:00.000-08:00

Statistics are for most students and researchers not very pleasible and even they hate it. For them we give on this page some food for thought (quotations) and smiling material (jokes and cartoons) on statistics. Enjoy yourself and know that statistics is not so bad as it seems.
Do you know of good quotes, jokes or cartoons on Statistics? Please don't hesitate, and send it to us. Thanks in advance.

Quotations

There are lies, darned lies, and statistical outliers.

Statistics means never having to say you're certain.

Statistics is the art of never having to say you're wrong. Variance is what any two statisticians are at. - C.J.Bradfield

A statistician is a person who draws a mathematically precise line from an unwarranted assumption to a foregone conclusion.

A statistician is a person who stands in a bucket of ice water, sticks their head in an oven and says "on average, I feel fine!" - K.Dunnigan

A statistician drowned while crossing a stream that was, on average, 6 inches deep.

Most people use statistics the way a drunk uses a lamp post, more for support than enlightenment.

Figures don't lie, but liars figure. - Samuel Clemens (alias Mark Twain)

Are statisticians normal?

An engineer, a physicist, and a statistician were moose hunting in northern Canada. After a short walk through the marshes they spotted a HUGE moose 150 metres away. The engineer raised his gun and fired at the moose. A puff of dust showed that the bullet landed 3 metres to the right of the moose. The physicist, realizing that there was a substantial breeze that the engineer did not account for, aimed to the left of the moose and fired. The bullet landed 3 metres to the left of the moose. The statistician jumped up and down and screamed "We got him! We got him!"

The weather man is never wrong. Suppose he says that there's an 80% chance of rain. If it rains, the 80% chance came up; if it doesn't, the 20% chance came up! - Saul Barron

All measurements are subject to variation.

The minute a statistician steps into the position of the executive who must make decisions and defend them, the statistician ceases to be a statistician. - W.E.Deming

I feel that the kind of examples of statistical analysis that tend to be considered in professional discussions ... are so grossly over-simplified as to make a pretentious mockery of real-life situations and statistical consultancy. - A.Ehrenberg

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics! - B.Disraeli

It has long recognized by public men of all kinds ... that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics. - H.Belloc

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. - J.Baudrillard

Where is the knowledge that is lost in information? Where is the wisdom that is lost in knowledge? - T.S.Eliot

One picture is worth more than ten thousand words.

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action. - W.E.Deming

The most powerful mathematical tools are sometimes less important to the engineer than some of the simpler or less powerful tools. But often, for lack of information about either, neither is used. - C.M.Ryerson

A knowledge of statistics is like a knowledge of foreign languages or of algebra; it may prove of use at any time under any circumstances. - A.L.Bowley

The long-range contribution of statistics depends not so much upon getting a lot of highly trained statisticians into industry as it does in creating a statistically minded generation of physicists, chemists, engineers, and others who will in any way have a hand in developing and directing the production processes of tomorrow. - W.A.Shewhart & W.E.Deming

The fundamental difference between engineering with and without statistics boils down to the difference between the use of a scientific method based upon the concept of laws of nature that do not allow for chance or uncertainty and a scientific method based upon the concept of laws of probability as an attribute of nature. - W.A.Shewhart

When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of the meager and unsatisfactory kind. - Lord Kelvin (British physicist)

1. If quality and productivity are to improve from current levels, changes must be made in the way things are presently being done.

2. We should like to have good data to serve as a rational basis on which to make these changes.

3. The twin question must then be addressed: what data should be collected, and, once collected, how should they be analyzed?

4. Statistics is the science that addresses this twin question. - W.G.Hunter

The Kartoo Search Engine

2008-01-24T22:16:00.000-08:00

On http://www.kartoo.com/ there is a wonderfull search engine that works visual. The words you look for are investigated and a visual presentation of the results is given. You can easily deepen you search and visualize the sites that are offered.

Free Counter on 19-1-2008

2008-01-19T08:14:00.001-08:00

Technorati update 19-1-2008

2008-01-19T03:07:00.001-08:00

Looking at a new update from Technorati shows that the Authority of some blogs doesn't increase that much. An exception is the Mail-Art Projects blog that has now Authority 31. Reasons: There are 60+ contributors to this blog and also lots of these contributors link to the blog. This aspect has raised the Autority to a double level in only a single month.

New Content = Visitors

2008-01-19T03:01:00.000-08:00

It is a basic rule in websites. You can attract visitors to a website when you place new content on a regular basis. I have tested it with this blog. A silence of a few eeeks means that the amount of visitors drops. Just a single new posting means that indexing machines place you on a higher scale and that results in a better visibility of your website.

Data Mining - Theory

2007-12-12T09:33:00.000-08:00

Data Mining

`We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.'
John Naisbitt

What is data mining?

Data mining sits at the interface between statistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, machine learning, database management and data visualisation (to name some of the fields).

Data mining is the non-trivial process of identifying valid, novel, potentially useful, and ultimately comprehensible patterns or models in data to make crucial decisions. Data mining is not a product that can be bought. Data mining is a discipline and process that must be mastered - a whole problem solving cycle.

The main part of data mining is concerned with the analysis of data and the use of software techniques for finding patterns and regularities in sets of data. The idea is that it is possible to strike gold in unexpected places as the data mining software extracts patterns not previously discernible or so obvious that no-one has noticed them before. The analysis process starts with a set of data, uses a methodology to develop an optimal representation of the structure of the data during which time knowledge is acquired. Once knowledge has been acquired this can be extended to larger sets of data working on the assumption that the larger data set has a structure similar to the sample data. This is analogous to a mining operation where large amounts of low grade materials are sifted through in order to find something of value.

Is data mining `statistical déjà vu'?

Whereas statistical analysis traditionally concerns itself with analysing primary data that has been collected to check specific research hypotheses (`primary data analysis'), data mining can also concern itself with secondary data collected for other reasons (`secondary data analysis'). Furthermore, data can be experimental data (perhaps the result of an experiment which randomly allocates all the statistical units to different kinds of treatment), but in data mining the data is typically observational data.

Data warehousing provides the enterprise with a memory

Companies are collecting data on seemingly everything. For example, a customer-focused enterprise regards every record of an interaction with a client or prospect (e.g. each call to customer support, each point-of-sale transaction, each catalogue order, each visit to a company web site) as a learning opportunity. But, learning requires more than simply gathering data. In fact, many companies gather hundreds of gigabytes of data without learning anything. For example, data are gathered because they are needed for some operational purpose, such as inventory control or billing. Once data served that purpose, data languish on tape or get discarded. The data's hidden value has largely gone untapped. For learning to take place, data from many sources (e.g. billing records, scanner data, registration forms, applications, call records, coupon redemption, surveys, manufacturing data) must first be gathered together and organised in a consistent and useful way - in a way that facilitates the retrieval of information for analytic purposes. This is called data warehousing. Data warehousing allows the enterprise to remember what it has noticed about its customers. Data warehousing provides the enterprise with a memory.

Data mining provides the enterprise with intelligence

Memory is of little use without intelligence. That is where data mining comes in. Intelligence allows us to comb through our memories noticing patterns, devising rules, coming up with new ideas to try, and making predictions about the future. The data must be analysed, understood and turned into actionable information. Using several data mining tools and techniques that add intelligence to the data warehouse, you will be able to exploit the vast mountains of data, for example, generated by interactions with your customers and prospects in order to get to know them better. Typical customer-focused business questions are:
What customers are most likely to respond to a mailing?
Are there groups (or segments) of customers with similar characteristics or behavior?
Are there interesting relationships between customer characteristics?
Who is likely to remain a loyal customer and who is likely to jump ship?
Where should the next branch be located?
What is the next product or service this customer will want?
Answers to questions like these lie buried in your corporate data, but it takes powerful data mining tools to get at them, i.e. to dig user info for gold. Data mining provides the enterprise with intelligence. Companies can use data mining findings for more profitable, proactive decision making and competitive advantage.

With data mining, companies can, for example, analyze customers' past behaviors in order to make strategic decisions for the future. Keep in mind, however, that the data mining techniques and tools are equally applicable in fields ranging from law enforcement to radio astronomy, medicine, and industrial process control.

Please contact us today in order to discuss how data mining can be applied to your field or work. Get Statooed.

Data mining myths versus realities

A great deal of what is said about data mining is incomplete, exaggerated, or wrong. Data mining has taken the business world by storm, but as with many new technologies, there seems to be a direct relationship between its potential benefits and the quantity of (often) contradictory claims, or myths, about its capabilities and weaknesses. When you undertake a data mining project, avoid a cycle of unrealistic expectations followed by disappointment. Understand the facts instead and your data mining efforts will be (hopefully) successful. A list of the most common data mining myths versus realities you will find here.

Data mining can not be ignored - the data is there, the methods are numerous, and the advantages that knowledge discovery brings are tremendous. Companies whose data mining efforts are guided by `mythology' will find themselves at a serious competitive disadvantage to those organizations taking a measured, rational approach based on facts.

source: http://www.statoo.com/en/datamining/

ClustrMaps - December 11th 2007

2007-12-11T10:55:00.000-08:00

The results on ClustrMaps show that visitors to this blog come from all directions. The blog still isn't that active, but it seems to attract visitors from all continents. Probably because the information is specific but not country-related.

Google Page Rank Update

2007-12-08T12:00:00.000-08:00

Posted by David Peralty as Blogging News, General

Don’t get too excited it will take a while for everything to settle, but it looks like it is Google Page Rank update time again. This means your blog could shift around in search results leading to more or less traffic. For those of you getting higher page ranks you might be able to leverage it for some more money, for those of you dropping in page rank, you will probably not be able to make as much money through things like banner and text link advertising.
Good luck to everyone, and may your page ranks be high.

Source: Problogger.net

Developments in Blogs

2007-12-08T11:55:00.000-08:00

by David Peralty as Blog Statistics

There is a great post up on Read/WriteWeb about bloggers, the types that are currently out there, and where the blogosphere may be heading. It is a bit long, but very enjoyable, especially if you are interested in blogging for a variety of reasons.

Here is a snippet from the article:

It was a good conference and we had several interesting conversations, but I walked away with a strange feeling. Somehow it seemed that blogging just isn’t that hot anymore. The feeling has been exacerbated by the latest slow down in news. My feeds just do not update that often these days. Can it be that the digestion phase applies to blogs just as it applies to startups? In this post we’ll investigate whether the blogosphere is going through a digestion phase.
Definitely worth a read though I hope we are not in a digestion phase. I still like the crazy unbridled growth we’ve seen over the past two or three years.

Nedstats - search engines

2007-11-20T12:29:00.000-08:00

The Search engine Google has picked up on this blog quite well. It has brought visitors from the different countries as you can see,.

Search Engines - Theory

2007-11-20T12:24:00.000-08:00

Search engines provide an interface to a group of items that enables users to specify criteria about an item of interest and have the engine find the matching items. The criteria are referred to as a search query. In the case of text search engines, the search query is typically expressed as a set of words that identify the desired concept that one or more documents may contain.[1]

There are several styles of search query syntax that vary in strictness. Where as some text search engines require users to enter two or three words separated by white space, other search engines may enable users to specify entire documents, pictures, sounds, and various forms of natural language. Some search engines apply improvements to search queries to increase the likelihood of providing a quality set of items through a process known as query expansion.

index-based search engineThe list of items that meet the criteria specified by the query is typically sorted, or ranked, in some regard so as to place the most relevant items first. Ranking items by relevance (from highest to lowest) reduces the time required to find the desired information. Probabilistic search engines rank items based on measures of similarity and sometimes popularity or authority. Boolean search engines typically only return items which match exactly without regard to order.

To provide a set of matching items quickly, a search engine will typically collect metadata about the group of items under consideration beforehand through a process referred to as indexing. The index typically requires a smaller amount of computer storage, and provides a basis for the search engine to calculate item relevance. The search engine may store of copy of each item in a cache so that users can see the state of the item at the time it was indexed or for archive purposes or to make repetitive processes work more efficiently and quickly.

Notably, some search engines do not store an index. Crawler, or spider type search engines may collect and assess items at the time of the search query. Meta search engines simply reuse the index or results of one or more other search engines.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engines

Technorati Blog Info update 4-11-2007

2007-11-04T10:50:00.000-08:00

It is always interesting to see the Authorities of Blogs. This one has now Authority 4. Two more blogs have a much higher Authority. They are much longer active of have several members that publish on the blog. I have 11 blogs lister at technorati. That way I can see how the interact and how things work....

Motigo - Overview visitors 31-10-2007

2007-10-31T02:20:00.000-07:00

While Statcounter only registers the last 500 hits, the Motigo counter saves all hits and therefore becomes interesting when one is searchibf for historical information. The longer a site is in the air, the more interesting the statistical data gets because one can make prognoses. Here is an overview of the countries visitors come from. Seems like they come also from abroad now. Even some dozens of hits from www.google.com themselves (in California, USA), so they are reading this too.....

FEEDJIT - Trafic Map

2007-10-31T02:08:00.001-07:00

The FEEDJIT Traffic Map shows the locations of the last 100 visitors to your website. Hover your mouse over any point on the map to see a detailed place name.

FEEDJIT - Live Traffic Feed

2007-10-31T02:02:00.000-07:00

FeeJit has a nice result besides the wesite that shows how visitors came here and where to they leave. The overview is visible for everybody so they can see what kind of 'traffic' this site genereates. This is also for the owner of a site very interesting information because when he checks the site he sees what is going on.

About FEEDJIT

"Our mission is to provide high performance real-time widgets for the blogging community that are free and easy to use. FEEDJIT is founded by two serial entrepreneurs whose previous businesses include a search engine and a blogging platform. If you'd like to contact us, please email"

<support@feedjit.com> with any questions, feedback or bug reports.

FEEDJIT

2007-10-29T13:56:00.000-07:00

FEEDJIT gives you real-time traffic data on your blog or website. No registration required and it's completely free. See where your visitors are located in the world, which websites they're arriving from and what they're clicking when they leave your site.

The above textcomes from their own site.

Details on: http://feedjit.com/

I am testing this new application now on this statistical blog as well. It is a Widget that shows the visitors how others get on your site. Other statistical programms have this information as well but mostly it isn't accesible for the visitors. Visitors can follow the same links as previous visitors.

Theory

2007-10-29T13:50:00.000-07:00

Statistical analysis of website usage

Analysing data from your website is important. Perception is often vastly different to reality. Website statistics can be misleading if not interpreted properly. A basic analysis can be done using statistics programs provided by your hosting company. Using these statistics, you should be able to evaluate;

Return on investment in SEO. Search engine optimisation companies who charge thousands of dollars for their services often base their claim on getting a handful of top search terms but it may be that only a handful of visitors actually find your website by typing in those search terms. Are you spending hundreds of dollars on hosting, management, search engine optimisation and copywriting a month for a website that no-one visits?

Are your premium google listings, google adwords, adverting costs from other search engines and websites providing a return on investment, or are you spending thousands of dollars for a handful of visitors?

Where are your visitors coming from?

What are the popular search terms and phrases used to find your website?

Are marketing campaigns like letter box drops, competitions, raffles, etc bringing more visitors to your website?

Limitations

Website data like all data collection has limitations. Currently all website statistical programs and web services on the internet assume that a unique user is equal to a unique I.P. Users may choose to access your website from different locations and/or may not have a static IP. Users of dial up internet will not have a static IP and so the website data will count them as a different visitor. Understanding the limitations, is important when interpreting data.

Many people believe that a popular website gets lots of hits. The number of hits is the equal to the number of file requests on a webpage, so if you have lots of images on your website, you will have lots of hits. The number of hits tells you nothing about the popularity of your website or whether your website is working for your business.

All the log analyzers and statistics programs available use simple mathematics. The problem is averages can lie if the proper mathematical model is not used. A statistician knows that averages, medians are meaningless without discussing variance, standard deviations, testing hypothesis, choosing the correct distribution, removing outliners.

Finding meaning in statistics

Statistics is not flawless but it will paint a picture and a good analysis of website usage will benchmark website performance against your desired outcomes and provide options for better website design.

Some questions statistical analysis may provide answers to include -

How many visitors are coming to the website?
Where do visitors come from? If they come from search engines, what key words and phrases are they using to find your website?
How long do visitors stay on your website?
What are the click paths of various type of visitors to your website?
What linking sites do your visitors come from?
Do the statistics give an indication of demographics?
What is the main reason people come to the website to do, read or buy?
However if you want to measure improvement, you need to do a proper analysis and calculate standard deviation. Otherwise, you could prematurely come to a conclusion that there had been an improvement when perhaps it was only variance or seasonal factor that influenced the result.

Using raw logs

Proper statistical analysis can only be done using raw data and by importing data into mathematical programs or log analysing software and eliminating outliners.eg. eliminating the ip addresses of staff members from website usage data. Obviously this is more expensive and the scope and purpose of website statistical analysis must be determined. It is also necessary to compare various tools, as the way that each program manipulates the data will vary and some log analyzers may be programmed incorrectly. Just because it spits out an answer or pie graph does not mean that the answer is correct.

source: http://www.passioncomputing.com.au/Website_Redesign/Statistical_analysis.aspx

GeoVisite

2007-10-26T11:05:00.000-07:00

The firm http://www.geovisite.com/ has three options for you to have interactive java-scripts that you can run on your website. I have added then all three now so you can have a look at what they do and what kind of information they give. Each has its specific information so it depends on what you want to share with your visitors. The site sure gets lively with the videos that it brings. I had to place them seperately on the blog so it wouldn't disturb the site too much. have a look at:

1. GeoGlobe
2. GeoCounter
3. Geomap

GeoVisite

2007-10-26T05:25:00.000-07:00

A new addition to this Statistical Data blog is the application that GeoVisite offers. Go to http://www.geovisite.com/ to find out the details. It brings a turning world with the hits mentioned and also an overview of the countries they come from. Just have a look at the icon that is in the sidebar.

StatCounter - Returning Visits

2007-10-25T01:25:00.001-07:00

This overview is always interesting. Do visitors come back after a first visit. Seems that is the case here, judging these graphical presented results by www.statcounter.com

StatCounter - Returning Visits

2007-10-25T01:23:00.000-07:00

How does the 'Returning Visit' work?

From your project log of the last x number of pageloads, we extract the total number of unique visitors present in it. Each unique visitor has a cookie, which is incremented each time they return to visit your website (a couple of hours is needed between visits depending on your settings). From this info we can show you how often visitors return to see your website again and again.

The best and most successful websites are the ones with a very high return frequency. If you have a low or non-existant return frequency you may want to change your website to encourage your visitors to come again and again.

Statcounter - Popular Pages

2007-10-25T01:20:00.000-07:00

This overview of www.statcounter.com gives you a perfect overview of what the popular pages on your website are. These subjects are interesting to your visitors!

Statcounter - Popular Pages

2007-10-25T01:18:00.000-07:00

What can the Popular Pages tell me?

You will quickly see which pages are the most heavily visited by your visitors and what ones are being left well enough alone. If some pages are being overlooked it could be a good idea to improve or make the navigation to those pages more obvious. Or entice your visitors to find out more about these pages.

Drill down the data - show all your visitors that visited this particular page during their visit!

Common problem with Popular Page Stats

If you only install the StatCounter code on one page of your website we can only track one page of your website. It is highly recommended to install the same code on all pages of your website you want to track.

Queries - Extreme Tracker

2007-10-25T01:07:00.000-07:00

Yes, I must admit I am a fan of this Extreme Tracker because it produces overviews that are very interesting. This is just a sample: with which words do the visitors come to my site and through which searchengine with what keywords? I like the answers to these questions. Seems like more people do since they ask these questions.

Browsers - by Extreme Tracker 25-10-2007

2007-10-25T01:01:00.000-07:00

Extreme Tracker is running for over a month now. It gives a clear overview of the browsers the visitors use that come here. Microsoft still has a large part of this, but there are changes visibible.

ClustrMap Results on 19-10-2007

2007-10-19T12:52:00.000-07:00

Running total of visits to the above URL since 1 Oct 2007: 141Total since archive, i.e. 1 Oct 2007 - present: 141 (not necessarily all displayed - see below). Visits on previous 'day': 1.Additional Notes about totals and map updates (for full guide see Map Key):The map shows individual visits to the web site shown at the top of the page, clustered within a given distance. The location of each visit is based on the IP address of the computer used. Update frequency variation: In order for your map to be 'updated' (whether daily, weekly, or monthly) the number of visitors shown must also have grown by a certain percentage since the last update.

This percentage may have changed recently, and is explained more fully in our FAQ about update frequency.Total/subtotal discrepancies above are typically caused either by IP addresses not currently being in the database or by the gap between counter tallies (continous) and map updates (which may be daily, weekly, or monthly).

See FAQ for additional explanations.

Statistics Cartoon

2007-10-12T10:40:00.000-07:00

The use of the statistical tools on your websites gives you the numbers to proof what you say about your website.

Authority update 12-10-2007

2007-10-12T07:35:00.000-07:00

Suddenly the Authority of this blog went from 2 up to 4. Seems that things I prepaired worked quite well.

Statistics Cartoon

2007-10-09T05:22:00.000-07:00

Statcounter - Information Visit Length

2007-10-09T04:59:00.000-07:00

StatCounter gives a nice feature: The length of the visits on your site. When visitors leave within 5 seconds, that means they probably weren't interested at all. The rest you can see how long they stayed. How they measure this? They just measure the time between entrebce URL en exit URL. So the details aren't that optimal, but an indication for sure.

For the free StatCounter tool it only measures the last 500 visitis. Not that much for a test. For access to the complete features one has to pay.

Technorati Blog Info update 9-10-2007

2007-10-09T04:54:00.000-07:00

Seems that my blogs are picked up nicely in the Technorati listings. Two of them even got Autority 13. Not bad. This specific blog (Statistical Data) stays on 2. Probaly because it is relatively small and not that well interlinked with other websites yet.

StatCounter - Browsers

2007-10-08T03:37:00.001-07:00

What decision can the browser stats help with?

The obvious question is have you tested your website in the browsers your visitors are using? A website can look great in one particular browser and not work in any other. It is always recommended to code websites using the standards maintained by W3C.

This ensures that not only will your website be compatible now, but it will also be compatible for future software!

Counter on 6-10-2007

2007-10-06T13:57:00.000-07:00

The number of visitors is starting to grow on this blog. One of the counters has reached 500. Another counter has reached 51, and they once went parallel. So the numbers can't always be trusted...

ClustrMap on 6-10-2007

2007-10-06T13:54:00.000-07:00

The first results are measured and shown here. When the listing is active longer the ball will get larger in the places where more visitors come from (or return).

Keywords - StatCounter: List

2007-10-06T09:06:00.000-07:00

StatCounter gives you a list of keywords people looked for and then found your site. Here you can see how people came to this actual Statistical Data site. It shows the interest of you visitors.

Keywords - StatCounter

2007-10-06T09:04:00.000-07:00

How can the Recent Keyword Activity help me?

This a great way to see up to the second how the latest visitors to your website are using the search engines to find your website, and then magnify them to see how they used your website.

Why does the same search term appear again and again with the same ip address?
This is how your visitors are using your website! They are clicking onto your website from a search engine result, then a little later they are doing it again and sometimes again and again. We track exactly what your visitors are doing don't be suprised by some of their very strange behaviour. Learn from it!

Choosing the Best Keywords

Effective search engine optimization depends on choosing the best keywords and I recommend using a combination of the Google Keyword Analysis and Overture Keyword Selector Tool.

Counter on 5-10-2007

2007-10-05T10:12:00.000-07:00

Statcounter - Results per day on 3-10-2007

2007-10-03T05:51:00.000-07:00

StatCounter has a nice tool to personalize the graphics you need. I have choosen a recent periode here and it shows the piek in the hits (a few days ago) quite nicely. If you need to show someone the results of a special posting of PR-campaing on your website, this is a great tool. If e.g. someone would write about this blog and would link to this site that would show up in such a gragh immediately. With the other tools installed you could find out the references of these extra hits and you could trace where the extra visistors come from. That is in fact how I discover if and how someone has written about this blog.

If something like I mentioned above happens, I will write you a report on how I use the installed startistical programs to find out the details. With the right tools one can find out quite interesting details about a site.

Motigo - Overview Continents 3-10-2007

2007-10-03T05:30:00.001-07:00

On the map that Motigo shows thare are obvious hisr from abroad. The ClustrMap has a delay of one day, so eventually there will show up some more red dots on the small map.

Believing Counters

2007-10-03T05:26:00.000-07:00

On this blog I have two counters running. Both went allong quite bicely, but the last days there is a difference of 16 between the two. It meena one of them had a failure in counting. That porooves that a counter doesn't register all that you would like it too.

Explenation Clustrmap

2007-10-01T12:40:00.001-07:00

This chart is given by Clustrmap to explain what you can see on the image. To get this image you have to click on the small image in the sidebar. An administrator can log in and get all the details. It will get interesting when this site gets a lot of foreign visitors....

Clustrmaps

2007-10-01T12:14:00.000-07:00

On the site http://clustrmaps.com/ you can get a nice gadget that can be implemented on your site. It is a worldmap that shws you where your visitors come from. In the beginning it will be empty, but after a while (and with foreign visitors) the image will build up. I have placed it on top of the sidebar on this blog for this moment. You can now see immediately what countries the visitors come from.

Other statistical programms have this option too. But Clustrmap shows the image straight away on the site for all to see.

Search Queries - 1 October 2007

2007-10-01T03:19:00.001-07:00

This is also an interesting feature in eXTReMe Tracker: You can see which queries were asked through search-engines. That explains how people are finding this Statistical Data Blog. Only the last 20 quesries are saved, so that isn't that helpfull for the search of why visitors come to your site.

eXTReMe Tracker - Countries on 1-10-2007

2007-10-01T02:12:00.000-07:00

eXTReMe Tracker gives this overview of unique visitors to this blog. Seems like visitors come from very different countries indeed. This is a very clear presentation.

Sitemeter - Results Worldmap 30-9-2007

2007-09-30T12:07:00.001-07:00

This is one of the better worldmaps that I have seen. Sitemeter produces them and this sample is of this actual site. Yes, more foeign visitos come in. Seems the texts als attract visitors. Statistical data is always interesting as it seems.

Note the dots and their meaning.

Technorati Blog Info update 30-9-2007

2007-09-30T05:06:00.000-07:00

The many postings and links on this blog must have helped. The Authority just went up to 2, and now indicates how this blog is seen by the Technorati programm. We will see how it increases further as the blog grows and the interlinking gets more scuccesfull.

Counter on 30-9-2007

2007-09-30T05:05:00.000-07:00

Motigo - Overview Countries 30-9-2007

2007-09-30T03:05:00.001-07:00

On the Motigo counter I can see where the visitors of the last daya came from. Seems like the Yahoo group is visited mainly by USA-inhabitants from East to West. One could zoom in on this map and find out where their computer lives....

Statcounter - Results per day on 30-9-2007

2007-09-30T02:58:00.000-07:00

The statistical data that is registered at StatCounter is growing. I have asked people on a Yahoo Group om mail-art (seee: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iuoma/) to start visiting this blog and that has caused some hits yeterday. That is clearly visible here.

Poll

2007-09-29T11:52:00.000-07:00

On 29-9-2007 I have addded this poll besides this blog. This way I will get some information about how visitors think about the statistical programms.

Technorati Blog Info update 29-9-2007

2007-09-29T08:19:00.000-07:00

A new list of the authority as generated by the Technorati website. Some more improvements. It is interesting to find out how this works.

New Blog

2007-09-29T05:11:00.000-07:00

On a new blog: http://countingnumbers.blogspot.com/ I am only placing numbers. I have added a statistical programm too. I want to see how it starts to attracht visitors. The number of postings will be an indication. I will make no special links to this posting, so a special test indeed.

Statistics Cartoon

2007-09-29T02:33:00.000-07:00

Statcounter - Information

2007-09-29T02:17:00.000-07:00

On the site www.statcounter.com they give lots of information about the meaning of special information they generate. An example with some keywords:

Returning Visitors - Based purely on a cookie, if this person is returning to your website for another visit an hour or more later

First Time Visitors - Based purely on a cookie, if this person has no cookie then this is considered their first time at your website.

Unique Visitor - Based purely on a cookie, this is the total of the returning visitors and first time visitors - all your visitors.

Page Load - The number of times your page has been visited.

What can the Summary Stats tell me?

There are two dimensions to the stats for a 'Standard StatCounter project'. There are the 'Summary Stats', and the 'Detailed Log Analysis'. The 'Summary Stats' provide a lifetime daily count of the totals of visitors to your website each day. And allows you to run reports since the day you started the project! After a few months of tracking, it is absolutely superb to look back and to see the daily, weekly and monthly trends of your visitors. Does your website have a weekday rush and a weekend slump? Did your traffic take a surge leading up to a holiday season? Is your website in general growing or stagnating? It is a wonderful tool to quickly assess the current success of your website.

How do the Summary Stats work?

The 'Summary Stats' determines whether a visitor has been to your website before by using a cookie. So if a user has cookies disabled we have no way of knowing if they are unique or not, and will by default be considered unique. However the majority of visitors have cookies enabled.

To make up for relying on cookies in the summary stats, the rest of the stats are based on your detailed log analysis of the last xxx number of pageloads. The uniqueness in this case is based on your visitors' IP addresses. This method works very well for the majority, but yet again there is an exception. AOL users, and visitors who use what is known as a 'dynamic web proxy' that changes each time they access a webpage. So if a single AOL user visits 7 webpages on your website it will likely come up as 7 different IP addresses!

Both cookies and IP addresses have their strengths and weaknesses for determining the uniqueness of a visitor. It is impossible to be 100% accurate the entire time, but with the Standard StatCounter Project you get the best of both worlds. Cookies for the 'Summary Stats' and IP addresses for the 'Detailed Log Analysis'!

The Advanced StatCounter Project combines the best of both worlds to use an almost fool-proof system (the only problem is AOL visitors who have cookies disabled! Not many!) but it is very server intensive, and won't be possible to provide as a free service until the cost of hardware and dedicated servers come down in price.

Statcounter - Results per day on 29-9-2007

2007-09-29T02:07:00.000-07:00

StatCounter gives a clear overview of the hits over the week. The programm only runs a few weeks now but he results are visible nicely....

Number - Definition

2007-09-29T01:54:00.001-07:00

A number is an abstract idea used in counting and measuring. A symbol which represents a number is called a numeral, but in common usage the word number is used for both the idea and the symbol. In addition to their use in counting and measuring, numerals are often used for labels (telephone numbers), for ordering (serial numbers), and for codes (ISBNs). In mathematics, the definition of number has been extended over the years to include such numbers as zero, negative numbers, rational numbers, irrational numbers, and complex numbers.

Certain procedures which input one or more numbers and output a number are called numerical operations. Unary operations input a single number and output a single number. For example, the successor operation adds one to an integer: the successor of 4 is 5. More common are binary operations which input two numbers and output a single number. Examples of binary operations include addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponentiation. The study of numerical operations is called arithmetic.

The branch of mathematics that studies abstract number systems such as groups, rings and fields is called abstract algebra.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number

Counter on 29-9-2007

2007-09-29T01:51:00.000-07:00

eXTReMe Tracker - All Keywords

2007-09-28T10:01:00.000-07:00

One of the reasons I like eXTReMe Tracker so much is because they have a cummulative report on the keywords that visitors use in seach-engines to reach your site. When the programm runs for a longer time it gets obvious what visitors are looking for. This is only the beginning of this list. It will grow steadily and in a few years this will get very interesting. It teaches me what the public looked for and decided to click on. If I would like to know which search-engines brought visitors to this blog, that is visible as well.

Stats of Michael Lumb Site

2007-09-28T09:52:00.000-07:00

This is a very interesting sample of how statistics from Motigo can give you a view of ahwt happens to a site. This is a site I made to publish the Thesis by Michael Lumb in UK to promote his work on Mail-Art. (see: http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/palace/62/). I updated the site only a few times and also installed the Motigo Counter. Here you can see how the interest for this thesis built up and reached its peak in 2003. Now slowly the interest fades. The interesting aspect is here to see the total amount of visitors over a period of 10 years. Most counters don't provide such a long service. Motigo originally was called NedStats, but they always kept the data they collected of the sites that were added. Bravo! Food for statistical people....

World Map on Sitemeter

2007-09-28T09:35:00.000-07:00

The worldmap that Sitemeter gives is quite impressive. One can even select a part of the world and the hits are shown. The point on the map vary depending on the number of hits from that place. You can see in one look where the concentration of your visitors comes from. For this blog that is still a quite empty map. but in future days this might become an interesting feature.

Sitemeter - First Results

2007-09-28T09:32:00.000-07:00

Sitemeter has a first entracnce page which is only visible for the owner of the site. It gives the basic details first. In the menu you can select all the details you want. Samples will follow.

Free Hit Counters

2007-09-28T09:20:00.000-07:00

The Free Hit Counters are tempting, but Easy Hits Counters only has a limited set of details they show. Most web-owners just ad such a counter to their site to keep track of the amount of visitors without all the fancy details.

Countries according to eXTReMe Tracker

2007-09-27T00:16:00.001-07:00

The statistics of eXTReMe Tracker today of the countries that have visited this site. As you can see they even include that flags. A small gadget. eXTReME Tracker record historically, so I will use their data to give an idea of how the visitors-information will change over a longer periode. Off course in the beginning a lot of hits by myself because of the testing. But you see that is now only 50% of the hits. The blog is being found, also through search-engines. And that bings hits as well.

Counter on 27-9-2007

2007-09-27T00:13:00.000-07:00

What is Site Meter tracking exactly?

2007-09-27T00:08:00.000-07:00

Site Meter tracks page views and visits. You may also have heard the term "hits". When someone comes to your site, they generate a "hit" for every piece of content that is sent to their computer. Viewing a single web site page would generate one hit for the page and one hit for every individual graphics file that was on the page. A single page could easily generate a dozen or more hits. When you are browsing a site, every time you follow a link, it is treated as a single "page view". Site Meter defines a "visit" as a series of page views by one person with no more than 30 minutes in between page views.

source: http://support.sitemeter.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=2

Request

2007-09-27T00:06:00.000-07:00

When you have stumbeled onto this site, a small request: hit the reload button a few time (as many times as you like). It is a good test for the counters that are active on this blog. I will document the results of such experiments with future postings.

Sitemeter

2007-09-27T00:01:00.001-07:00

A new counter is added to the list. It is located at www.sitemeter.com . Yes, a lot of free counters are available online. They all have their specifics and most of them can be upgraded if you want to use the data for business (you then mostly don't want the advertising and also a possibilty to historify the data - more capacity)

Statcounter: Returning Visitors

2007-09-26T03:15:00.001-07:00

Statcounter gives you very interesting graphics of returning visitors. They just notice the IP numbers of your visitors and then keepo track if someone comes back. With this free account they only register 500 items. If this is interesting you might consider a paid account that brings you a wealth of information.

Keywords Statcounter

2007-09-26T03:12:00.000-07:00

The Statistical programms of Statcounter also report you which keywords bring visitors to your site. Always interesting to know how they come.....

Hits according to StatCounter

2007-09-26T02:18:00.000-07:00

Hits according to StatCounter on 26-9-2007. They have a different graphical program. You can even change the presentation in several ways as you like. Looks good when you have to present your hits to an audience and/or management.

Hits according to Motigo

2007-09-26T02:12:00.000-07:00

Motigo has registered these hot on this site. It seperates the returning hits and the individual visitors. As you can see the hits have dropped because there are only few changes to the site now.

Counter on 26-9-2007

2007-09-26T02:09:00.000-07:00

Definition

2007-09-24T12:30:00.000-07:00

Statistics is a mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. It is applicable to a wide variety of academic disciplines, from the physical and social sciences to the humanities. Statistics are also used for making informed decisions.

Statistical methods can be used to summarize or describe a collection of data; this is called descriptive statistics. In addition, patterns in the data may be modeled in a way that accounts for randomness and uncertainty in the observations, and then used to draw inferences about the process or population being studied; this is called inferential statistics. Both descriptive and inferential statistics comprise applied statistics. There is also a discipline called mathematical statistics, which is concerned with the theoretical basis of the subject.

source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics

Counter on 23-9-2007

2007-09-23T08:22:00.000-07:00

Authority

2007-09-23T08:20:00.000-07:00

The current status on Technorati. Always a surprise how things change..... Seems like some blogs I have increased in Authority. Not always sure why, but the internetworking seems to cause this.

Motigo - Overview Continents

2007-09-22T13:55:00.000-07:00

On my website http://www.iuoma.org/ the Motigo statistics are now running quite some years. Just last month the 50.000th visitor came in! It gives an idea of whicht continents the visitors come from. Africa is still not connected. Since the topic on this website is Mail-Art, this shows where the interest comes from.

Motigo - Overview Countries

2007-09-22T12:36:00.000-07:00

The statics from Motigo are always instersting because they give historical information. An example you see above. It is the current status on the blog:

http://mailartprojects.blogspot.com/

which is a collaborative blog with now 41 authors. It's Autority is already 9 abd growing. You can see that most visitors come from the USA after the start about 3 months ago. Because of the few statistic-programms attached to the site, this is visible.

Statcounter graphics

2007-09-22T10:47:00.001-07:00

As you can see Statcounter has some very nice ways of showing the statistics. The website is bases on a PHP-system. It even allows you to export your MySQL database as an CSV-file or Excell-Spreadsheet. so if you need the data for research, taht is very usefull.

New Counter

2007-09-22T10:28:00.000-07:00

At http://www.statcounter.com/ you can find the details for yet another statistical program that is available for free. In future postings I will analyse the different options of the counters I have installed. To compair the Counter 1 and 2 I have set the starting pont identical (yes, you can do that). So if things go right the counters will give the same number. If not, one has missed a hit....