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A conspirational hat wearer believes Rands in Repose is Garbage:
“I really don’t know how to approach this; I thought it was sarcasm until I read the rest of the article. Is it supposed to be profound?”
Profound? No.
Is it an interesting insight into “data on data”, that is, taking an existing data set and performing statistical analysis on it? Yes.
Indeed I’ve noticed the article cropping up in discussion already — along with some fascinating patterns regarding twitter usage.
Rands in Repose is a smart read as it’s author takes the time to break often-complex concepts down to a level the lay-person can grasp, not because it’s pitched as some esoteric Mecca.
Shawn Blanc takes a fresh look at an increasingly popular herb and notes:
“And Shaun Inman’s Mint is a website analytics program for those kinds of people: The people who highly appreciate spectacular (and tasty) things.”
I’ve often wondered quite why folks are so wrapped up in this web statistics product. Sure, I’ve been aware for a while now that it’s a good application. But there are many good statistics applications out there. What makes this any different to the rest?
Mr Blanc answers that question in spades, tracing the progress of the tasty snack that has become an addictive narcotic for an increasing number of users. And it’s reviews like this that really make me — as a prospective customer — salivate at the thought of what it might do for my appetite in turn.
A 570 page discourse on understanding and the use of MDL. Yes, a full five-hundred-and-seventy pages on effective processes describing how not to be verbose.
"Google announced the launch of Version 2 of Google Analytics today. Over the next few weeks Google will upgrade current GA users to the new version." — fantastic article on the latest version of analytics, that boosts some *very* cool features.
"It’s time we learned the answers to these and other questions about web design. And nobody is better qualified than the readers of A List Apart to provide the answers." — Have your say in the 2007 ALA Web Design Survey.. your view still matters.
It never ceases to amaze me how much of an impact it can heave have, releasing a
wordpress related
theme or
plugin.
The move to (mt) Media Temple from dreamhost has been the single best hosting move bar none. I cannot emphasise strongly enough just the staggering difference of having a rock solid hosting service means to me.
Although the statistics shot through the roof1 representing an average 75%+ boost in overall activity2, I hardly noticed the ‘bump’. I was able to continue approving comments, update the post and plugins page and generally continue to function without wondering what the hell happened to my hosting service.
When I compare that to the blogdotting event caused by Matt directly linking to a post whilst I was still on dreamhost, the end results are poles apart.
Given that a picture is worth a thousand words, the following two images represent what happens when a plugin is released here at the ‘foo:
The general interest in even the smallest, simplest plugin such as sig2feed, can generate masses of additional traffic — if there is one piece of free advice I can give for any budding plugin developer, it’s “prepare for the demand”.
If you’re using the more budget orientated hosting service3 the likelihood of your hosting server buckling under the strain of serving pages to hundreds of hosts concurrently is extremely high.
Speaking of page views, this is the ‘other’ statistic I was refering to:
I seriously recommend installing wp-cache and activating it upon release if you have any qualms about your hosting provider — there is nothing worse than really wanting to check out a new plugin and have to wait for potentially hours on end, until the particular host’s load lightens enough to get some action happening.
I’ve had conversations with a number of people now, regarding their frustration at less-than-stellar4 hosting experiences and all I can really offer in return is what was once recommended to me.. two letters.. (mt).
.. the more they stay the same.
To get a feel for RSS subscription levels for smackoo, I decided to roll the feed through
feedburner.
I have done this
in the past as well, with
mixed success. It seems while times have changed, feedburners tendency to be
as fast as glacial ice movement has not.
That is not […]
After running
Google Analytics for a month or so now, some interesting trends have emerged.
Now, before I begin, it should be noted that I don’t particularly use Google’s Analytics engine to help find the advertising ’sweet spot’ - rather it’s a tool for me to identify the content and layout that works best for you, […]
