Posts Tagged ‘analytics’


Who Indexes Tweets

I was curious who is indexing the links that people tweet on Twitter. It’s obvious someone does since links get ‘clicks’ almost immediately after submission. To do this presumably they are tapping into the xmpp firehose.
Lets take a look:
66.xxx.xxx.xxx – - [06/Dec/2009:20:17:43 +0000] “GET /test HTTP/1.1″ 301 20 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”

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Sunday, December 6th, 2009 Posted in Google, Internet | 2 Comments »

Yahoo! Web Analytics

It went somewhat unnoticed, but Yahoo! today announced it’s Yahoo! Web Analytics package which is intended to compete with the wildly popular Google Analytics. I’ve spent quite a few hours in analytics packages over the years ranging from very amateurish to enterprise grade. Google Analytics is a very good product but it does [...]

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 Posted in Google, Web Development | 1 Comment »

Secrets In Websites II

This post is a follow up to the first Secrets In Websites. For those who don’t remember the first time, I point out odd, interesting, funny things in other websites’ code. Yes it takes some time to put a post like this together, that’s why it’s just about a year since the last [...]

Friday, January 11th, 2008 Posted in Around The Web, Google, Mozilla | 68 Comments »

Tab Impact On Total Time Spent

As everyone in the industry knows, Nielsen/NetRatings no longer relies on page views instead preferring total time spent. This makes sense since ajax applications can have 1 page view, but keep a user for an hour. Not to mention other things like video or Flash. The use of time spent is likely [...]

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 Posted in Mozilla, Web Development | 3 Comments »