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Website Browser Statistics and Design Quality
Website Browser StatisticsToo many web designers don't make quality websites because their websites only work in Internet Explorer (version 6) and not other browsers like Firefox, Netscape, Opera, and Safari. Recently, one of my known website design competitors redesigned their website.... continue reading "Website Browser Statistics and Design Quality"»
Search Engine Statistics
Search Engine StatisticsSearch Engine Usage Statistics for February 2006 Nielson/Net Ratings has released new search engine statistics for Feb 2006. Each of the search engines is maintaining their market share with less than 1% change in the main search engines. Overall, there were 5.3 billion searches performed in February... continue reading "Search Engine Statistics"»
Google Sitemaps
Google Sitemap StatisticsGoogle Sitemaps are getting better at showing you a compiled snapshot of how Google views your web pages. Ever really wondered how Google views your pages? Well if you haven't used Google Sitemaps yet, you might just consider it. You don't even have to create a sitemap for your site to benefit from... continue reading "Google Sitemaps"»
2009 Website Browser Statistics
Browser Stats 20092009 Website Browser Statistics Review. IE 7 is still the browser of choice, but some of the IE 7 crowd have recently switched over to IE 8. Mostly we saw a move from IE 7 to IE 8 with Firefox gaining another percentage and eveyone else staying practically the same from the middle of 2009. The web... continue reading "2009 Website Browser Statistics"»
2005 Website Browser Statistics
2005 Website Browser Stats2005 Website Browser Stats Review I have gathered together some statistics from multiple sites that I oversee for 2005. These are total percentages for the entire year of 2005 for websites in multiple categories. For example, site 2 is an e-commerce site, site 6 is a tutorial site for Macromedia... continue reading "2005 Website Browser Statistics"»
Why are Website Statistics so Important?
Why Track Website VisitorsTracking is the single most important thing you will do with your website. Do you have a tracking plan that allows you to know... How many people visited your site What keywords they used to get there How often they come back What pages are looked at Which pages aren't looked at Which page... continue reading "Why are Website Statistics so Important?"»
2011 Website Browser Statistics
Browser Stats 2011Firefox loses ground while Chrome and mobile gain percentage points. IE remains constant. Browser statistics for the beginning of 2011 show that IE has remained at a consistent 61% market share. Firefox fell the most in 2011 losing 5.86% over 2010. Chrome surges again with a 2.65% increase over 2010.... continue reading "2011 Website Browser Statistics"»
Search Engine Usage for 2010
2010 Search Engine StatisticsSearch engine usage and statistics for July 2010. The Nielsen Company reported their findings for July 2010. Here are their top results. Search Engine Percentage Google 64.2% Yahoo 14.3% Bing 13.6% AOL 1.9% Google has dropped almost another full percentage point... continue reading "Search Engine Usage for 2010"»
2007 Website Browser Stats Review
2007 Website Browser Stats2007 Website Statistics from multiple websites show that the top three website browsers are still IE 6, IE 7, and Firefox.Here are some browser statistics for 2007. Browser Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Site 4 Site 5 Site 6 Site 7 Averages MSIE 7.0 43.52% 18.32%... continue reading "2007 Website Browser Stats Review"»
2010 Website Browser Statistics
Browser Stats 2010Browser statistics for 2010 show that IE loses 6% of its market share. Firefox stays constant with a slight increase at 24.87%. Chrome increases 3% and Safari increase 2.75%. Internet Explorer (IE) users have been shifting toward the newer versions of IE 8. We have seen a decrease of 8% in IE 6 users... continue reading "2010 Website Browser Statistics"»
2006 Website Browser Stats Review
2006 Website Browser Stats2006 Website Browser Statistics - Year End Results Well another year is gone and here is the browser war roundup for the year of 2006. This year we saw the much anticipated IE 7 browser release and although they have taken some nice strides forward , and having it rollout in the Microsoft Update... continue reading "2006 Website Browser Stats Review"»
Search Engine Usage for 2008
Search Engine Statistics 2008Nielson/Net Ratings has released new search engine statistics for May 2008. Google has increased its market share over the Nov 2007 search engine results we posted last year. Google pulled ahead a little farther from 57.7 to 59.3 for a 1.6% increase in market share. Google captured just over 4.7 billion... continue reading "Search Engine Usage for 2008"»
Search Engine Usage for 2007
Search Engine StatisticsNielson/Net Ratings has released new search engine statistics for Nov 2007. Google has really increased market share over the Feb 2006 search engine results we posted last year. Google jumped from 48.5 to 57.7 for a 9.2% increase in market share. Google captured just over 4.2 billion searches in Nov... continue reading "Search Engine Usage for 2007"»
Long Tail of Search Statistics
Long Tail of SearchUnique search strings accounted for more traffic than all search strings that more than 100 people searched for combined (including keyword sets that had thousands of searches). To help explain this topic in more detail we will use this sample data. Keyword Set Number of Times Keyword Set was... continue reading "Long Tail of Search Statistics"»
Search Engine Usage for 2009
Search Engine Statistics 2009Search engine usage is out for June 2009. The Nielsen Company reported search engine usage for June 2009. Here are their findings. Search Engine Percentage Google 66.1% Yahoo 16.2% Bing 8.8% AOL 3.0% Google is still the master of search and expanding its grasp... continue reading "Search Engine Usage for 2009"»
June 2006 Browser Stats
2006 Browser StatsBrowser stats for 2006 through June 15th. It has been interesting to see the changes that have happened in the past 6 months in relation to web browser usage. Here are the numbers for 2006 so far this year: Site 1 ... continue reading "June 2006 Browser Stats"»
2009 Website Browser Stats Review
2009 Website Browser StatsIE 7 is the current browser of choice with Firefox second and IE 6 in third. IE 8 adoption is still slow. Since we didn't do a browser stat review for 2008, we decided to do a review for the middle of 2009 and bring people back up to speed on the browser war. Among the tech field (Site 6) Firefox still... continue reading "2009 Website Browser Stats Review"»
Is your search engine placement like a billboard in the woods?
Placing in the First Three PagesMost search engine users will abandon or change their search if they do not find what they are looking for in the first three pages of results. Interesting statistics for people using search engines show that most people expect their results in the first three pages. 90% of search engine users will... continue reading "Is your search engine placement like a billboard in the woods?"»
First Page Search Engine Results
Be First Page in the Search EnginesBeing on the first page of the search engine results, like Google, Yahoo, and MSN, not only will improve your ROI but will increase your brand image. According to a new study more than half of search engine users will click on the very first page of results. 62% of search engine users click on a result... continue reading "First Page Search Engine Results"»
What exactly is a bot like Googlebot
Googlebot and other SpidersGooglebot, Yahoo Slurp, and MSNbot and similar spiders, bots, and crawlers are the programs that harvest information for search engines. For anyone tracking statistics on their website, Googlebot, MSNbot, and Yahoo Slurp can be welcomed guests. These three search engine bots gather (harvest)... continue reading "What exactly is a bot like Googlebot"»
Website Browser Safe Fonts
Browser Safe FontsI have been asked many times why people always use Times New Roman or Arial on their websites. Unfortunately, the reason is very simple. There are only a handful of fonts that look similar that are installed by default on both Windows and Macs. Consequently, these "browser safe fonts" find... continue reading "Website Browser Safe Fonts"»
Accurate Backlink Counter for Google and Yahoo
Counting BacklinksEasy way to get accurate backlink counts from Google and Yahoo. If you are a regular Google user and website owner, you know that the link: modifier doesn't give accurate results for the number of backlinks pointing at a site. In the good old days we'd go to alltheweb.com and do a search with link:www.ahfx.net... continue reading "Accurate Backlink Counter for Google and Yahoo"»
Fixing a Raid 5 Degraded Array After a Failed Disk
Raid 5Failed hard drive on a Dell PowerEdge server placed Raid 5 on a PERC 4/di in a degraded state. Here are the steps to rebuild the Raid array on a Dell PowerEdge. We had a harddrive crash on one of our Dell PowerEdge servers this week. Fortunately, we had no downtime because it only took one drive out... continue reading "Fixing a Raid 5 Degraded Array After a Failed Disk"»
Don't Make These Mistakes in Your Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) MistakesToo many companies fail in these incorrect assumptions about SEO when dealing with search engine optimization to get first page results. Rand Fishkin mentioned these two ways companies often incorrectly approach SEO. The biggest mistakes I see around SEO is that they consider it two ways, both of which... continue reading "Don't Make These Mistakes in Your Search Engine Optimization"»
Guide To Building Successful Websites
Planning and DevelopingBuilding a website requires careful planning and a strong foundation. There are many steps that you need to go through in order to get a website up and running. While many people may skip some steps or hurry through others, each step is an important part of the process as a whole. The first part of... continue reading "Guide To Building Successful Websites"»
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