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The social revolution…

nicola — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:07:35 +0000

A nice post from TechCrunch:

More Americans Are On Facebook Than Have A Passport

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 08:27 PM PDT

To celebrate the fact that my vacation during the last two weeks of August has been officially confirmed (!), I am posting the most massive infographic I have ever seen: “The Social Travel Revolution” brought to you by the folks at still-in-beta travel startup Tripl.

Most shocking statistic: 50% of all Americans are on Facebook (155 million) while only 37% of Americans have a passport (115 million). To its credit, the Facebook onboarding process is a lot more streamlined.

SeeWhy: Converting Clicks into Customers

nicola — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:41:50 +0000

SeeWhy delivers breakthrough improvements in website conversion with its Abandonment Tracker family of “on demand” services. Re-marketing to abandoned visitors using the SeeWhy service re-converts up to 50% of visitors who abandon their shopping carts, online forms, applications and registrations.
Powered by a real-time event processing architecture, SeeWhy’s Abandonment Tracker Pro service automatically follows up on abandoners by initiating real-time, multi-stage emails and follow up calls optimized to the individual visitors’ behavior and their likelihood to purchase.

Currently SeeWhy’s suite of real-time web analytic applications is being used by both large and small ecommerce companies, including Amazon.com, eBay, Land’s End, Citibank and MasterCard. The company just raised $4.5 million in funding from Scottish Equity Partners, Logispring, and Pentech Ventures.

More information

Abandonment Webinar (SeeWhy Conversion Academy) – A 30 minute presentation with Q&A covering essential facts relating to shopping cart abandonment and online form and registration process abandonment. This video also covers in brief a new free abandonment tracking service which enables web teams to follow up automatically on abandoned applications and shopping carts, and describes best practices in following up on abandons.

State of the Net – Ireland

nicola — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:49:44 +0000

Essential eBusiness intelligence for Irish managers.

A quarterly bulletin on online activity in Ireland
Compiled by AMAS in association with the Irish Internet Association

DOWNLOAD: Autumn 2008

Web map: Country Codes of the World

nikkey — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:21:19 +0000

At the end of every URL and email address is a top-level domain (TLD). Although .com is the world’s most popular TLD, it is far from alone. There are more than 260 TLDs in use around the world, most of which are country code top-level domains (ccTLDs).

The Country Codes of the World map includes 245 country codes, which encompasses all United Nations countries as well as numerous islands and territories. Each two-digit code is aligned over the country it represents and is color coded with the legend below for quick and easy reference.

Each ccTLD is sized relative to the population of the country or territory, with the exception of China and India, which were restrained by 30% to fit the layout. At the other end of the spectrum, the smallest type size used reflects those countries with fewer than 10 million residents.

This map is an excellent resource for managers of global Web sites and global marketing executives. And because there are no country borders, this map has been proven by teachers to be a valuable tool for teaching world geography.

Read the original article…

Web analytics trends: Crazyegg

nikkey — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:22:33 +0000

Google analytics does a very good job letting you see how many visitors are coming and going on your site by tracking every page request. However, another type of analytics focuses on optimizing how they’re using it, by tracking where visitors click.

Crazy Egg now has a new feature “Confetti” that lets you easily see where every visitor clicked on your site and what brought them there. If you want to know where people are clicking on your site, and which areas could use improvement, Crazy Egg helps you visualize your visitors.

What makes Crazy Egg different from all the other analytic services?
You need to know where your visitors are clicking so that you can fine-tune your site’s performance. For example, if you are running an ad campaign that isn’t earning any money, it could be due to the placement of the ads. You can use Crazy Egg to experiment with this positioning until you find the right spot to improve the ad’s performance.

Crazy Egg has been implemented on over 250,000 sites and is free if you just want to track up to 5,000 clicks on 4 pages at a time each month. But if you upgrade to a paid account, you can track more clicks over more pages with real time data. The limited number of clicks tracked may seem restrictive, but analytics from Crazy Egg are meant to run for a short period of time on a specific url to grab a sample of how your users react to design changes.

So… why not to try Crazy Egg on your next web project?!

Web Page Analyzer

nikkey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:02:35 +0000

Free Website Performance Tool and Web Page Speed Analysis

Free web site speed test to improve website performance. Enter a URL to calculate page size, composition, and download time. The script calculates the size of individual elements and sums up each type of web page component.

Based on these page characteristics the script then offers some advice on how to improve page load time.

Try now the Web Page Analyzer!