Negligible Quantities

Just to provide more backing to Better Know a Web Metric : the Page View, here is a story I just found on Digg.

Excerpt:

Remember when web site traffic was talked about in terms of « hits »? You’d read about how many millions of hits Netscape got per month and other sites bragged about getting 30,000 hits a day.

My comment on this story:

RSS and Ajax are two tools that work great together when it comes to publishing content. They still need a receptacle in the form of a document…
With RSS and Ajax, you essentially track clicks and site interaction, which means taking a measure of your site’s usability instead of an in-depth traffic analysis.

read more | digg story

On his « SEO Egghead » blog, Jaimie Sirovich offers a compilation of the best SEO tips written by Matt Cutts (Google employee).

On a side note, Jaimie appears to have an upcoming book on SEO with PHP (WROX ed.), co-authored with Christian Darie.

this story got spotted on Digg and the main comment (although overly enthusiast, as usual on Digg) called for moderation so I went ahead and posted a reply.
Links :

• SEO Egghead
• Matt Cutts
• Digg story

Welcome to the first installment in the 10-part series Better Know a Web Metric!

In this feature, I will try and explain Web analytics terms and what they’re all about.

In this week’s episode, we will explore… the Page View!

(Lire la suite…)

Those of you who know my sense of humor know that I absolutely love Stephen Colbert. If you follow his show, the Colbert Report on Comedy Central, he has a segment called Better Know a District, which aims to present every single US district in an educational and yet funny way

Anyhow, I intend to have a weekly feature on this blog, trying to present Web Analytics terms in a more understandable way. Stay tuned!

Quick comment on Avinash’s blog on time-to-purchase analysis.

Check it out if you feel so inclined.