February 13, 2012

November visitor stats

November visitor stats

I’ve been taking a closer look at Google Analytics recently because it now offers real-time visitor information. Tonight I compared the stats for November this year with the same month last year, and discovered the numbers are falling slightly. In November 2010 there were 7521 unique visitors; this year the total was 7371. The browser stats were interesting. Internet Explorer users have fallen from 55 percent to 53 percent; Firefox has fallen from 21 to 18 percent and Chrome has risen from 11 to 16 percent and Safari was steady on 11 percent.

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Google Chrome extensions

Google Chrome extensions

I’ve just discovered the official Google Chrome extensions site is up and running. I think this has only happened in the past few days, because last time I checked about a week ago it was restricted to developers. Previously, to install Chrome extensions you needed a development version of the software and had to to [...]

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Operating system compatibility

operating systems

This isn’t meant to be a geek blog, but I want to vent a little here. I contacted the manager of a commercial website yesterday to point out the site didn’t render properly in Linux. It’s the first site I have ever come across which does not view sensibly in Linux. The response: “Thanks for [...]

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Test your web design

This site in Galeon on Ubuntu.

A free online service called Browsershots is available for web site developers to test how their sites look in different browsers and on different operating systems. You’re able to select from various options and then submit for screenshots to be created. In my case it took over half an hour. I had gone with all [...]

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Flock browser

Flock browser logo

I must say that I’m very impressed with the latest version of the Flock browser. Earlier versions were a little clumsy and not much more than Firefox clones with a light blue theme, however version 0.7.1 has some outstanding features. Proclaimed as a social browser, Flock now lives up to its name with handy features [...]

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