Page Load Testing – Background vs Inline Images
December 8th, 2011 • CRO
I was recently working to speed up a website and was getting horrible load times for relatively small images (50k) off of a large amazon ec2 server. I decided to create two simple pages and test if using background-images was making a noticeable difference.
Switching to Facebook Comments
November 29th, 2011 • Wordpress
I recently decided to switch to facebook comments for this blog. As a result all old comments are being discarded. Sorry for the confusion.
Track IP Addresses In Google Analytics
December 6th, 2010 • Analytics
Now that Google Analytics allows multiple custom variables it is much easier to track your users ip addresses. Simply insert the following code in your analytics tag: pagetracker._setCustomVar(1, "IP", "<?php echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; ?>", 2); To break down each variable: SLOT – 1 refers to the Index or “slot” – you can have up to five [...]
Minview: Minimalist Mobile Browsing
September 8th, 2010 • scripting
Today I’m announcing a rapid prototype I’ve been working on for the past few days called Minview. Mobile browsing has come a long way since the dark days of the blackberry browser, but despite the recent advancements made by the iphone, palm and android devices – mobile browsers are still left wonting. While android and [...]
Lower Your Bounce Rate With One Line of Code
April 30th, 2010 • Analytics, SEO
While reading through the Google Analytics Event Tracking Guide, I came across this nugget: In general, a “bounce” is described as a single-page visit to your site. In Analytics, a bounce is calculated specifically as a session that triggers only a single GIF request, such as when a user comes to a single page on [...]
SEO Friendly Split Testing
February 26th, 2010 • SEO
I’ve recently been spending most of my time split testing the designs across many of the sites I manage. The question is always raised – how will this effect my seo?
Firefox Keyword Research Addon
August 9th, 2009 • scripting, SEO
A simple firefox search engine addon that makes it faster to do keyword research. This script passes your keyword research query to seobook’s keyword research tool.
PHP & MySQL Keyword Rankings Script
August 6th, 2009 • scripting, SEO
I’ve been working on a Google keyword rankings script that scrapes Google search engine results pages and stores the values in a mysql database. This video shows it in action.