Why Your Website Statistics Reports Are Wrong

Dec 18 2011 by Subeesh Kottay

He is a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development

Global Statistics

There are several online services which provide general website statistics reports. StatCounter is one of the more well-known: it analyses data from 3 million websites across the world to gather meaningful statistics. The information is useful, but you should be careful when using the data to make business decisions. Just remember:

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How Browser Market Share is Calculated.

I post a browser market share report every month or two. I hope you find them interesting or at least revel in the news that IE6 usage is dropping. However, they often result in more questions than they answer. This is my attempt at explaining how browser market share is calculated. It’s a theoretical overview rather than a mathematical thesis and calculation methods will differ from system to system.

Lies, damn lies and statistics

…and then there’s web statistics. Collating information from web browsers is notoriously difficult — see Why Your Website Statistics Reports Are Wrong. StatCounter and Google Analytics produce great-looking reports with figures to several decimal places but you should be aware that analysis is based on a hierarchy of assumptions.

That’s not to say web statistics are useless. They’re great for spotting trends, but attempting map results onto the activities of individual users is often futile.

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Chrome Becomes the World’s Second Favorite Browser

Dec 18 2011 by Subeesh Kottay

He is a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development

Google has done it. Despite being half the age Mozilla’s browser, Chrome has overtaken Firefox to become the world’s second favorite (or most-used) browser. Chrome may only have a 0.5% advantage but it’s enough. Let’s look at the latest worldwide StatCounter statistics:

Browser	October	November	change	relative
IE 9.0+	9.59%	10.14%	+0.55%	+5.70%
IE 8.0	23.83%	24.00%	+0.17%	+0.70%
IE 7.0	4.29%	4.26%	-0.03%	-0.70%
IE 6.0	2.47%	2.23%	-0.24%	-9.70%
Firefox 4.0+	18.87%	18.62%	-0.25%	-1.30%
Firefox 3.7-	7.52%	6.62%	-0.90%	-12.00%
Chrome	25.05%	25.74%	+0.69%	+2.80%
Safari	5.93%	5.90%	-0.03%	-0.50%
Opera	1.80%	1.84%	+0.04%	+2.20%
Others	0.65%	0.65%	+0.00%	+0.00%
IE (all)	40.18%	40.63%	+0.45%	+1.10%
Firefox (all)	26.39%	25.24%	-1.15%	-4.40%

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Mozilla Pushes Firefox 3.6 Update

Dec 20 2011 by Subeesh Kottay

He is a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development

If you’re still using Firefox 3.6 or below, you’ll soon be prompted to upgrade to version 8.0. Following several postponements, Mozilla has finally pushed the kill-switch which should bring most users up to date.

Firefox 3.6 was released in January 2010 but the 3.0 codebase originally shipped in June 2008. That feels a little ancient now and, while 3.6 remains a capable browser, it’s relatively slow and doesn’t support many of the new HTML5 facilities Mozilla introduced in version 4 and above. Currently, around 7.5% of web users retain Firefox 3.x or below — it will be interesting to assess the impact of the recommended upgrade on Firefox’s market share.

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What’s New in Opera 11.60

Dec 18 2011 by Subeesh Kottay

He is a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development

Unlike certain browser vendors I could mention, Opera makes an effort to add shiny new features when they release an update. Version 11.60 is no exception although few users will notice changes unless they’re using:

• Opera’s built-in email client — it’s been redesigned, or
• the address field — it has a new quick bookmarking/speed-dial star icon

Apart from various bug fixes, all the exciting enhancements are under the hood in the Presto 2.10 rendering engine. Developers: prepare to tinker…

Apart from various bug fixes, all the exciting enhancements are under the hood in the Presto 2.10 rendering engine. Developers: prepare to tinker…

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How to Check if an Email Address is Valid or Not

Oct 25 2011 by Subeesh Kottay

He is a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development

Spam filters of popular email services like Gmail,Yahoo are very efficient and they keep a lot of junk emails out of your inbox.Still there are some sophiscated techniques available using which hackers bypass these spam filters.Emails are the prominent method used in phishing scams.

There are various free online services that allows you to send anonymous emails.Hackers can effortlessly create their own Anonymous Email service by simply uploading email PHP script to their servers.If you receive a suspicious email you can check whether that email id exists or it is fake.

Email address Checker is a free third party service. This checking tool connects to the mail server and checks whether the email exists. For valid email addresses, you can view additional intelligence including pictures, blog and local searches

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Clean out your Computer With Registry Cleaner

Oct 27 2011 by Subeesh Kottay

He is a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development

Some people say that to work more efficiently, one has to start on a clean slate. The same is true with your computer. Sometimes, your computer system can be in chaos when you forget to keep it clean (memory and disk-wise).  Sooner or later, you would end up with data corrupted and all your hard work would be put to waste.

It is something any computer user would not want to deal with, thus, you, being one of them must install a registry cleaner to keep your computer out of such mess. The secret in making your computer fast is to keep your registry clean. This is because your registry may get too congested with some of the commands that overstayed there when you installed and uninstalled several softwares. To be honest about it, most of the commands from software can crowd up your system and before you know it, they have already created havoc in your computer.

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How to Download Torrent Files with IDM

Oct 27 2011 by Subeesh Kottay

He is a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development

Downloading files from the Torrents site is easy and completely legal (unless you are downloading copyrighted files).Downloading speed from torrents depends upon various factors like seeders, leechers, internet connection etc.If have high speed internet connection but still not getting good downloading speeds then you can use IDM to download them.There are various methods on the internet to do this but this is the easiest, simplest and tested method.

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How to Update Windows OS Without Internet Connection

Oct 25 2011 by Subeesh Kottay

He is a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development

Microsoft frequently releases Security and other essential updates for windows.These updates fix newly discovered bugs and flaws and increases efficeny and protection of Windows.If you don’t have internet connection or have slow internet then you can’t get the updates directly from microsft instead you have to use a third party utlity calledAutopatcher.

AutoPacher allows you to download for your windows Operating system and saves it for offline installation.This gives you the liberty to update any computer without internet connection.

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How to Get Gmail Alerts on your Mobile Phone

Oct 25 2011 by Subeesh Kottay

He is a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development

Gmail is the fastest growing email service and has one of the best Spam filters andclean interface for navigation.There are lots of features like Gmail Preview Pane and Addtional Chat Emotions which are not enabled by default but you can activate them from Gmail Labs.Email forwading to mobile phones  is feature which automatically sends email to mobile phone as soon as it arrives in your Inbox.This feature is still not supported by Gmail but you can enable it using third party services like way2sms or 160by2.


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How To Download Torrents in Java, Windows, Symbian and Android Mobiles

Oct 25 2011 by Subeesh Kottay

He is a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and PHP development

Mobiles with 3G and Wifi are common these days and various high speed data plans are available that gives lighting fast Internet speed.These mobiles (Smartphones) have high storage capacity and you can save movies and other multimedia files without any constraint.You can also download files directly from torrents using free mobile applications.


How To Download Torrents In Android Mobiles

Ever since the launch of android in 2007 it has revolutionized the smartphone industry.It is now the main competitor of Apple’s IOS and is the best selling smartphone platform.

Transdroid is an Android app that support various clients including µTorrent, Transmission, rTorrent, Vuze, Deluge and BitTorrent 6.You can download multiple files simultaneously and monitor their downloading speeds,peers and seeds.

To search files on torrents you can use the integrated search engine and it will automatically catch the download.

Click Here to Download Transdroid

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Tricks to Search in Gmail Email

As our Gmail is flooded up with lot of emails everyday it gets too laborious to search for a particular mail. Even-though there is a search option in gmail but even it can give you hundred of mails in results and scanning all of them isn’t convenient.You can reduce the results to marginally low levels by using special operators which increases the accuracy of your search.


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