Archive for the ‘Webmaster Things’ Category

Make your own cheap charlie CDN

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

CDN stands for Content Delivery(or Distribution) Network. It is a network of servers usually located in various geographic locations to improve the availability and access speed of a website (or webapp or other media). The main use of CDNs were during the nineteens when inter-continental access was slow, scarce and ...

Goodbye Alexa : Google Trends for websites is here!

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Earlier, every now and then I would go to Alexa to see my ranking to massage my ego. Now, Google has come up with a reality check - Google Trends for websites. Google announced a new layer to Google Trends in an official blogpost. Matt Cutts and Barry Schwartz also blogged ...

Piwik the Google Analytics Killer!

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Just today Jan told me about Piwik. At first glance it looks quite neat and developer friendly. The idea seems to be to make an Open Source alternative to Google Analytics and the advantages seems to be many. Piwik is the new version of phpMyVisites and is supported by OpenAds ...