#metrics (41 links)
- TBM 403: The Seduction (And Folly) Of Rollups, Points, and (Most) Time Tracking cutlefish.substack.com
I were to leave you with one idea, it is to go back to the ideas in How to Measure Anything by Douglas Hubbard. The basic idea there is that you can measure far more than you think, but only if you’re clear about what decision the measurement is meant to support, accept uncertainty instead of chasing false precision, and choose measurement approaches that reduce uncertainty at the lowest possible cost.
- Measuring Experiences, Not Product Use | LinkedIn linkedin.com
Measuring the use of the product isn’t bad. However, it does not measure the UX of the product. The UX is the user experience, and these metrics have nothing experiential in them.
- Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers matt.blwt.io
Corporate legibility is the art of making tasks, and their outcomes, easier to understand for those not directly involved.
- The Quantified Self kk.org
Build your own multi-purpose mobile self-tracking application.
- Think Vitamin » How to Track Six Key Metrics for Your Web App thinkvitamin.com
- Analysis: What are the Web's Top Sources of Referral Traffic? readwriteweb.com
Not totally convinced by the results shown here but potentially a useful starting point.
- Open Site Explorer Link Analysis opensiteexplorer.org
SEOMoz's new link popularity checker and backlink analysis tool.
"[Imaginary Landscape] performed a comparison of an 11-field Contact Us form with a 4-field Contact Us form. They found contact form conversions increased 120% when the number of fields was reduced from 11 to 4 (a 64% decrease)." Not surprising but metrics are useful.
- High Performance Web Sites :: Business impact of high performance stevesouders.com
"How big an impact does performance optimization have on the business metrics of a typical media or e-commerce site?" Potentially quite a lot, which is why we keep banging on about it.
- Bitten bitten.edgewall.org
Bitten is a Python-based framework for collecting various software metrics via continuous integration. It builds on Trac to provide an integrated web-based user interface.
"Well, they suck." Yes, they do.
- High Performance Web Sites :: Wikia: fast pages retain users stevesouders.com
Wikia measures exit rate - the percentage of users that leave the site from a given page. Here they show that exit rate drops as pages get faster. The exit rate goes from ~15% for a 2 second page to ~10% for a 1 second page. This is another data point to add to the list of stats from Velocity that show that faster pages is not only better for users, it’s better for business.
- TweetStats :: Graphin' Your Stats tweetstats.com
- Indie Music Tech: Band Metrics Announces Music Data Exchange Format (MDEF) indiemusictech.com
Band Metrics decided to create the Music Data Exchange Format (MDEF), a free, open and portable XML based format for the purpose of sharing data relative to musicians and bands.
spy can listen in on the social media conversations you're interested in.
- No Man’s Blog - This is how I measure social stuff no-mans-blog.com
Reach, engagement, influence, sentiment.
- Want Success on Digg? Think Choc Chip Cookies - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
Weird analogy but some useful points.
- Twitter Traffic Explodes...And Not Being Driven by the Usual Suspects! (comScore Voices) comscore.com
Reuters reporter Alexei Oreskovic recently authored an interesting blog post about the demographics of Twitter users. What he discovered was that 18-24 year olds, the traditional social media early adopters, are actually 12 percent less likely than average to visit Twitter (Index of 88). It is the 25-54 year old crowd that is actually driving this trend.
When you care about performance, or SEO (or just doing a good job as web dev) an interesting data point is the ratio of page content vs. the markup used to present this content. Or... how much crap we put in HTML in order to present what the users want to see - the content.
- Web Performance Matters - Journal - Acceptable Response Times webperformancematters.com
"The real question is not "What is the industry standard?" but rather "What response time will the users of my Web site or application find acceptable?"
- Google Analytics Blog: Want to track Adobe Flash? Now you can! analytics.blogspot.com
This feature is a translation of the current Google Analytics tracking code into the ActionScript 3 programming language that dramatically simplifies the ability to track Flash, Flex and AS3 content.
- NUCONOMY | Insights you never imagined nuconomy.com
Go beyond the old Page View model and start to measure engagement. Understand your users' activities and how they interact with the various features of your site.
"BitTorrent and the like are simply new distribution models and the number of our viewers choosing to view our content this way is as relevant as those still choosing to watch on broadcast television. What’s missing is the definitive business model for
- Track Blog Reactions To Your Brands With Scout Labs techcrunch.com
Helps companies make sense of the mass of positive and negative things that are said about their brands in blogs, user generated videos, and images.
"We predict internet advertising to pass three milestones over the next three years," ZenithOptimedia's forecast said. "We expect it to overtake radio advertising in 2008; to attain a double-digit share of global advertising in 2009; and to overtake magaz
- CIA.vc cia.vc
CIA can send an IRC bot to your channel to instantly report the progress made by you and your peers.
- In Appreciation of Measures That Tell Stories - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
Click streams have made room for bounce rates, search analytics, and so much more. If we play our cards right, we can reduce and synthesize the raw data and give our clients more meaningful information that foments action.
- Vitamin Features » Pragmatic reporting for your web apps thinkvitamin.com
When building a web app, reporting is the last thing on many feature lists. Clear reporting is vitally important for the long term success of your web app and managing your growth.
- Ask the Wizard: How and What to Measure burningdoor.com
Successful businesses measure and count things [...] unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.
- New Media Review - Provided by the European Travel Commission etcnewmedia.com
Lots and lots of stats.
- Compete - SnapShot snapshot.compete.com
- 101 Easy Ways to use Google's New Website Optimizer conversion-rate-experts.com
Info on Google's new Website Optimizer tool.
- SECOND LIFE: A story too good to check - Valleywag valleywag.com
"I suspect Second Life is largely a "Try Me" virus, where reports of a strange and wonderful new thing draw the masses to log in and try it, but whose ability to retain anything but a fraction of those users is limited."
- Bitten - Trac bitten.cmlenz.net
Bitten is a Python-based framework for collecting various software metrics via continuous integration. It builds on Trac to provide an integrated web-based user interface.
- evhead: Pageviews are Obsolete evhead.com
In summary, there's no easy solution. There's a big opportunity (though very tough job) for someone to come up with a meaningful metric that weighs a bunch of factors.