Random thoughts and observations
Google Analytics is a great way to compile and compare statistics for website visits. Here’s a summary of my stats for 2011:
Unique visitors: 97,134 (+4.7%)
Page views: 154,385 (+6.6%)
Average time on site: 47 seconds (-14.5%)
New visits: 90.02% (+1.3%)
I’ve been offline for a while and some of you may have wondered why. Basically, I decided to focus this week on my plans for the future, and didn’t want to be distracted by posting articles and comments to various websites. I’ve made some progress this week and by the middle of April I expect [...]
The open source microblogging platform StatusNet has two interesting options for users. Microblogging, for the uninitiated, is online publishing of status updates within a limited space, normally 140 characters. Think Twitter or the wall on Facebook. StatusNet offers its software for download, which can be installed on any PHP/My SQL server. This gives the user [...]
I’ve adjusted my site settings to stop comments being made on posts that are more than one year old. It’s a neat WordPress feature that you can stipulate a finish date for comments. I’ve previously allowed open commenting indefinitely, but sometimes strange remarks come through on issues that I’d either forgotten about or no longer [...]
I’m currently experimenting with AdBrite to deliver advertising on this site. I’m not so precious to believe a blogger shouldn’t be able to reap some revenue from the content they have published, in my case over a period of nearly six years. In addition to text and banner ads, AdBrite offers advanced options like a [...]
