Website Statistics - Top Referring Sites and URLs

 
Argh! This is my second try - I had a wonderful article typed up in my blog backend, hit Post… but instead of posting, it died. And disappeared. Completely. Drat.
OK… trying again.
There are many reasons why you might want to use the Top Referring URL and Top Referring Site statistics - they can point out [...]

Flying to Canada

I’ll be out the rest of the week, speaking at Netspeed 2004 in Calgary (my first international speaking gig - cool!).
Stay tuned next week for more exciting info on web log statistics!
hey, did he say web stats were exciting??? Can you say Web Geek?

Website Statistics - Top Exit Pages

Yesterday, I discussed our top Entry pages - what it is exactly, what you find there, and what those stats mean. Today, I’m going to focus on the other part of that area, Exit Pages.
Top Exit Pages are just the opposite of Entry Pages - Exit Pages are the last page a customer sees before [...]

Website Statistics - Top Entry Pages

Update: direct links to all my website statistics posts:
Top Entry Pages (this post)
Top Exit Pages
Top Referring Sites and URLs
Top Search Keyword and Phrases
Top Search Engine Words and Phrases
In my last post, I said: “But we could go … further with this idea. How about seeing who our “virtual competition” is - looking at our web [...]

Ideas from Library Web Sites

I’m reading “Library Web Sites: Creating Online Collections and Services” right now, and came upon this quote: “Users expect to find those same practices implemented on the library web site. Imagine all of the other sites (eBay, Travelocity, Yahoo!) that users visit in between trips to the library’s web page … In fact, studying the [...]

When to use Radio Buttons and Checkboxes

Jakob Neilson’s newest Alertbox article discusses when to use checkboxes and radio buttons - good stuff that makes our web forms easier to use!
Here’s a useful little snippet:

Radio buttons are used when there is a list of two or more options that are mutually exclusive and the user must select exactly one choice. In other [...]

Fun with Mozilla Border Radii

CSS3 and Mozilla Border Radius Properties- DHTML Lab - WebReference.com
This is a handy, easy-to-understand tutorial on how to use CSS3 borders in DIV elements. Apparently not useful for us IE users (so it won’t work for most of my library’s customers) but very cool nonetheless.
I hope IE adopts some of this soon!

MSU Usability & Accessibility Conference

MSU Usability & Accessibility Conference Home Page
Look at this - MSU has set up a Usability center - very cool! They even have a conference (the link goes to the conference page).
I hope more academics start taking this kind of direction.

Where’d my ERIC Document go? Found it!

Oops! Dang it, I hate when this happens… the problem, of course, was on my end.
When searching for an ERIC record, one needs to include the “ED” or “EJ” with the number…
That works great! I can now see my ERIC Document in all it’s out-of-date glory.
In my defense, when using the previous versions of ERIC, [...]

Where’d my ERIC Document go? Continued

OK, this saga continues. The ERIC people have a 1-800 helpline (1-800-LET-ERIC) with extremely helpful customer service reps. I called them up to ask what the deal was with my ERIC Document, and she was able to pull it up immediately! Go figure - sort of like when the car’s having trouble until you take [...]

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