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Google Page Speed and Yslow 2.0

anon — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:53:06 +0000

Posted By Mike Hopley On June 15, 2009 @ 12:52 pm Hot on the heels of Yahoo’s Yslow [1], Google have published Page Speed [2], a tool they have been using to optimize their own web pages. Now you can use it too. Page Speed is similar to Yslow in several respects: it’s an add-on to Firebug; it analyses your pages according to a set of performance rules; it draws attention to rules that you score badly on; and it also provides a page activity monitor. For each rule, Page Speed gives you a general indication of how well you’re doing, in the form of a green tick (good), red circle (bad), or amber triangle (indifferent). You can also hover over a rule to see your percentage score. Page Speed does not provide an overall percentage score, but it does arrange the results in order of importance. Since my previous article about Yslow 1.0 [3], Yslow 2.0 has been released; this includes a - Read More

Track SEO rankings and Sitelinks with Google Analytics II

anon — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:31:50 +0000

2 September, 2009 André Scholten Earlier this year I did a guest post on this site to show you how to track your SEO rankings with Google Analytics. It was quite some news for a lot of people, just take a look at the 300+ comments. And now it’s time for the follow-up. Google’s new technology Since a while Google is testing a new AJAX version of their search engine. I’m not sure who’s seeing the AJAX version and who isn’t, but in Holland most of the Firefox users do see it. You can see if you’re one the new one by looking at the url of a result page: The great thing about this new version is that it makes Google Analytics capable of tracking the clicked position. Yes you heard what I say: the position. Where the ‘old’ Google only allowed us to track the page a keyword was on, the new Google allows us to track the exact - Read More

Google Analytics Tutorial Part 2

anon — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:23:00 +0000

by Patrick Altoft on June 12, 2007 The Advanced Google Analytics Tutorial raised more questions than it answered so I have spent this afternoon going through everybody’s comments and trying to answer them. If you have any more questions please feel free to ask in the comments at the end of this post. Google has just announced a few new features including the ability (finally) to click on referring url’s and be taken to the referring page. Michael asked: Is there a way to see stats based on a specific day? I’d love to be able to see which pages are more popular as I’ve changed my site over time. I might change link position or something for a week and it’d be nice to see stats for that time period only to be able to compare them. Click on Content > Top Content and then scroll right down to the form that says Find url and type the page you want to view the stats for. In - Read More

Advanced use of Google Analytics and the new interface

anon — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:02:11 +0000

by Patrick Altoft on June 7, 2007 Since Google Analytics was launched in 2005 it has become one of the top analytics packages for small to medium sized websites. Growth was initially slow due to the frustrating waiting list system initiated by Google to avoid over stretching their servers. Now that the waiting list has been removed anybody can sign up to use this great service. The user interface had a major redesign in May 2007 and a lot of the features we love have become hard to find. This guide should help you find your way around the new system. I see a lot of comments on the forums asking whether Analytics can do X, Y and Z. In most cases it can do it but people just don’t realise it. As webmaster of several large sites I have been using GA for around a year now to track a huge number of variables. In this post I will go through a few of the more obscure interactions that GA - Read More