November 25th, 2009
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Do you know where does your website traffic come from? Well, if not then you should find a way to know it. You can use the following websites / online tools to see how your visitors find your site and the origins of the traffic:
- AwStats or Webalizer. It is usually provided by your hosting as part of your package. Some hosting set it on by default others requires you to enable them. Webalizer provides a detail and summary of the traffic from the country where they came from, entry/exit pages, search agents/sites used and event the response code of the site.
- Google Analytics. This is a great analytic tool from Google that requires you to sign-up for an account and embed a javascript tracking code on every pages of your site. There’s a lot of segment and reports that you can generate and find from this traffic tool. You can even connect your Adsense account so that you can determine which of your sites earn better and what keyword or articles attracts more clicks and money.
- Alexa – A traffic ranking site that shows you the top most visited websites on the net classified by countries and categories. You can also see your traffic rank on other countries using this site plus the most keyword that the site is known of.
November 22nd, 2009
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Load Speed & Search Engines
Its really annoying if you visit a site then it really loads slow. What if you own that site well of course you don’t want your readers / visitors to ’suffer’ this way. Do you know that search engine might consider the load speed later to be part of their ranking factor? (read: New Google Ranking Factor in 2010: Site Load Speed, for more information regarding this issue.) That’s right they are planning to consider that later next year and you should be ready for that. If you site has a low grade of E or D on YSlow or on any Speedtest then you should consider taking measures to make the experience of your users much better.
Here are some of tips that you might consider to be implemented on your site to cope with this situation:
November 20th, 2009
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Google Chrome OS
About a half year ago, Google announced its new operating system project called Chrome OS. Today, prior to the release of this new operating system to netbook users, they’ve released an open source OS code named Chromium OS. It is a project that “aims to provide fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web.” According to Matt Cutts blog’s recent post, the boot time of the newest OS reach at about 7 seconds only. Woah, that was fast right!?
Now, if you want to have a copy of the operating system at its early stage, you can go to http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os for the source code and instruction on how to implement it. Remember, the said Chromium OS are intended for netbook computers and requires you to have a Linux OS (like Ubuntu) to build it.
By the way, here is the video from Google Chrome’s official Youtube Channel. It contains stuff that discuss about what inspires the development of Chrome OS.
November 18th, 2009
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BlueHost
As I have mentioned on my previous post, I moved my site to BlueHost but some of my sites still remains with the old hosting, HostGator. Based on what I have found out the other day regarding how the hosting handle the sudden increase in traffic, BlueHost just passed to what I have expected. I compared two of my sites that made some traffic and Bleuken.com who gained at about 68,286 unique visitors in November 14 (Nov. 15 in the Philippines) didn’t suffer any 500/501 internal error server compared to my other Hostgator hosted site who gained only 42,504 unique visitors and made some 500 and/or 404 error.
I am really impressed with BlueHost’s capability to handle some unexpected traffic increase and really satisfied on its performance. I will continue to check on my hosting and just let you know if what I will find or experience something that is worth to mention. So if you might be looking for a good hosting for your website then I think BlueHost can be the right for you.
By the way for those who have experienced good or bad about BlueHost, feel free to leave your comments here and share your thoughts about this.
November 16th, 2009
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Speed Matters!
Here’s an interesting posts by Search Engine Land where it stated that Google are planning to introduce a new ranking factor and that is the loading speed. This mean that will consider fast loading websites to rank well on their search result pages. Matt Cutts said that this ranking factor might be implemented or take into consideration by the giant search engine by 2010.
Previously, he announced that the newest ranking algorithm codenamed “Caffeine” will be live on one of their data centers after the holidays. This mean by January 2010 and onwards they will start to push the changes to all of their data centers and expect for Caffeine to be on browsers worldwide. Fast search results rendering is expected from this change.
The following video shows the interview of Mike McDonald (WebProNews) with Matt Cutts mentioning about this topic:
