Monthly Archives: November 2006

The ‘Broken Window’ principle and Web design

I haven’t posted in awhile, and in the spirit of today’s link, I’m just going to post on something. Here’s a interesting 37signals article on building and maintaining momentum on your Web site (amongst other things). Sometimes, when you don’t know what to do, work on the things that are easy to fix. Clean up the [...]
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People aren’t watching much video on their iPods

So sayeth Nielsen Media in a recent study. Some quick numbers from the article: only 15.8 percent of iPod users ever played any video content on their iPod or iTunes only 1 percent of the content items played on an iPod or iTunes was video content Unfortunately, the article doesn’t talk much about the demographics of the 400 iPod [...]
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Q&A: Search Engine Traffic and Blog Post Frequency

From great comments and questions comes great fodder for blog posts. The first question comes from yesterday’s post on search engines. Chris asks: But webmaster, your stats seem to indicate that 99.7% of our traffic comes from a search engine. Aren’t there some visitors that just come here because they know about us already? Or, what about [...]
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Search Engine Basics – Part One, What Search Engines Are Important?

I get a lot of questions about search engine optimization (SEO), and with good reason. A recent competitive analysis found that over 50% of prospective students conducted an internet search during the course of their evaluation of different MBA programs. Not only that, but this method of research was the largest percentage of any other [...]
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User attention span? 4 seconds.

That’s it. That’s how fast your page needs to load before someone gives up and moves on.
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Lies, Darn Lies and Web Statistics

A big question that I often get is “how much traffic does my site get?” That’s an excellent question, and we actually have an answer. The School of Business has an excellent statistics package that monitors the traffic to web pages on www.bus.wisc.edu. But here’s the hitch, it needs to know which pages to track.
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