One of the things I’ve been wanting to do for a while seems to be finally nearing completion. Google Analytics allows you to segment users into custom segments, and there’s one segment I’ve been aching for. I want to be able to segment RSS readers, to be able to see the different browsing behavior of [...]

John Chow and Shoemoney are holding a competition between themselves for who can get the most RSS subscribers in a month time. I’ve created a graph of their progress since the start of the competition using the FeedBurner API, this image will update itself during the competition: Help John Chow beat Shoemoney in their little [...]

Dave’s post pointed me at the new look for Yahoo!, and Greg did some coverage on SEL. The coolest thing in there is Yahoo Search Assist, which Danny explains at length in this somewhat older post. It works amazingly cool and it might even make me consider Yahoo! a bit more often. Sean Hardaker raises [...]

Small note: Quite a few people asked how to check the outbound click and download data from Google Analytics, so I compiled a small howto on checking your outbound click stats. Update: I added a few more: How to check your image search stats and keywords Creating a Google Analytics filter for image search

I just wanted to let you guys know that I’ve thrown the first version of my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin out there. You can download it from here, while you wait for me to write the page for it on this site! It automatically tracks outbound clicks from posts, comments, blogroll, it tracks downloads, [...]

I wrote earlier about using a custom urchin.js to get Google Analytics to extract the keywords from Image Search. Now my colleague Roy recently spoke about this with an engineer from Google, and this engineer suggested that I could just rewrite the one function and add that as an extra javascript instead of using a [...]

Google Analytics doesn’t get the keywords people used to find your site using Google Image search, and thus labels them as “referral” instead of as “organic”. Google Image search gives you referral URL’s that aren’t really readable. The query string that the searcher used to get to that referring URL is hidden somewhere deep down [...]

I’ve been diving a bit in to Google Analytics lately, and one of the things you’ll notice when you run Google Analytics is that it doesn’t recognize every conceivable search engine straight out of the box. For instance, Ilse.nl, still quite popular here in the Netherlands, doesn’t seem to be seen as “organic” in Google [...]

As requested by Ruben, I’ve added Clicky to the statistics detector Greasemonkey script, upgrading it to version 1.3.8, and installed Clicky on this site too. The interface looks quite good, I’ll test it over the next few days and let you guys know what I think.

I run three instances of Mint, and if I worked “the normal way” doing one of it’s rather frequent updates would mean having to copy the same files three times. Since I’m lazy, I don’t feel like doing that. What I’ve done is pick one “main” Mint install, and symlink all files in other directories [...]