Using JavaScript For Web Syndication. “If you are syndicating to websites that are not under your control, you don’t know that the webmaster will have the expertise to implement a syndication strategy using XML. You might be syndicating to a small company that used FrontPage to make the website; they certainly can’t set up a dynamic process to fetch an XML feed from your site, cache it, and integrate the data into their site.” By chris@pirillo.com (Chris Pirillo). [Lockergnome's RSS & Atom Tips]

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categories: Radio Fun, Web Analytics

 

Counting Web Site Visitors. If your organization runs a Web site, you may think that the statistics you're getting from your log analysis software are presenting a pretty accurate picture of your site's traffic. Well, not so fast. A newspaper research and consulting firm named Belden Associates did a study that shows most site traffic numbers are way off base for a variety of reasons. For example, Belden estimates that half of the daily users of a newspaper website access it from more than one computer, resulting a lot of double counting. I couldn't find the report on the Belden site, but a write-up in the Christian Science Monitor gives some details. Even though the study was done for the newspaper industry, most of what's reported is not specific to newspaper Web sites. [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]

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categories: Web Analytics