RSS FeedAfter enjoying immense growth in 2009, it has been reported in numerous places that Twitter may perhaps be approaching its peak. The question in my mind is whether this is a bad thing, or a metaphoric toilet snake to unclog the “tubes”! Read more…
March 17, 2010
March 12, 2010
Meaningful Web Metrics
Whether you call them web metrics, web analytics, or web statistics, it is all the same thing: the behavior of visitors on your site. Being able to measure this behavior is the biggest advantage of web sites over traditional mediums.
The difficulty with web metrics is that most people don’t really know what to look for. A term like ‘hits’ is frequently used to indicate a lot of traffic to a web site, but really hits may not be where it’s at. ‘Page’, ‘file’, and ‘hits’ are antiquated terms that should boil down to one thing, visitors. Read more…
Web Standards and What They Mean To You
Developers of the World Wide Web (WWW), it is of the utmost importance for us to insist on writing compliant code. While it may take longer initially to validate your code, and perhaps even cause a few cross-browser compatibility issues, if we the coders of web do not insist on a higher expectation of ourselves, our websites, and our applications, then the only thing we can expect is a business community that will never see the full potential of search engine optimization, and clients that will never fully maximize their potential. Read more…