#statistics (119 links)
- Guardian Trends guardiantrends.appspot.com
Graphs of how often things feature on guardian.co.uk
- 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.
Includes estimates by age group.
- WebAIM: Screen Reader Survey Results webaim.org
In December 2008 through January 2009, WebAIM conducted a survey of preferences of screen reader users. We received 1121 valid responses to the screen reader survey, which was conducted Dec. 2008 - Jan. 2009. The response was amazing.
- Report: Apple Dominates the Mobile Web - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
The latest data from AdMob, the world's largest mobile advertising marketplace, shows that Apple now dominates the mobile web in the U.S. with a 48% market share. This growth, interestingly enough, does not just come from the iPhone, but the iPod touch also saw a meteoric rise in usage during the last month.
- Social Media Statistics Wiki socialmediastatistics.wikidot.com
- Band Metrics - Private Beta bandmetrics.com
Sounds dead handy. In beta. "Band Metrics helps musicians and bands analyze and measure the success of their music."
The company states that in August, their mobile browser Opera Mini was used by approximately 17.3 million users, who viewed more than 4.1 billion pages - about 242 pages per user, per month.
Driven by iTunes and the iPod, Gen Y has a voracious appetite for digital music, ring tones and all things mobile.
- Communities Dominate Brands: When there is a mobile phone for half the planet: Understanding the biggest technology communities-dominate.blogs.com
As of November 2007 there were 3.3 billion mobile phone subscriptions around the world. At 6.6 billion people globally, yes, there is a mobile phone subscription for half of the planet. But that is not really the whole story. So lets delve deeper into these numbers.
- blackrimglasses - The Bottom 1.5%, up from 0% blackrimglasses.com
One of the more interesting things I’ve found is what is happening in the bottom 1.5 to .5% of the browsers that are hitting our sites. I’m starting to see devices appear en masse which are not PC’s.
- Some Perspective On Browser Market Share | Continuing Intermittent Incoherency alex.dojotoolkit.org
Good perspective on Flash/browser penetration from John Dowdell at Adobe.
- Job Trends | Indeed.com indeed.com
Trends over time for job advert keywords.
A new report out today appears to confirm that a broad economic slowdown in the United States is starting to negatively effect the online ad industry.
- Atlassian FishEye — Source Code Repository Insight atlassian.com
Looks great but, ooh, expensive!
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Web 2.0 is set for spending boom news.bbc.co.uk
Web 2.0 is set to be embraced by Enterprise 2.0 as businesses prepare to spend nearly $5 billion by 2013 on social networking tools.
- Digital Pulse | Chinwag - the UK's leading community media company for the new media industry chinwag.com
Chinwag's monthly snapshot of market conditions, career satisfaction, salary views, and more.
- Hill Library Blog: The Entire Communications Industry, in Less than 200 Pages blog.hillsearch.org
The 2007 Digital Economy Fact Book (pdf) is a tightwad researcher’s dream: In-depth, statistic-heavy, well-cited, and freely-available online. One could hardly ask for more.
- t|w|i|t|t|e|r|m|e|t|e|r twittermeter.com
Twitter meter let's you query an index of all the words that have been sent to twitter's public timeline since [...] 11/6/2007 and plot the number of times that word was used over time.
- AppleInsider | Google iPhone usage shocks search giant appleinsider.com
Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset -- a revelation so astonishing that the company originally suspected it had made an error culling its own data.
A new study released today by a consortium of big players in advertising found hard numbers to back up what you might have guessed. Specifically, that only 6% of people online are contributing 50% of the clicks to display advertisements.
- 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.
- Diabetic retinopathy tiresias.org
Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in people of working age in the UK
- Thanks Striking Writers, Online Video Going Up, Up, Up, Up techcrunch.com
According to new figures from Nielsen Online some online video sites have doubled their audience since the strike began.
- Many Eyes services.alphaworks.ibm.com
For shared visualization and discovery.
- Tasty Data Goodies - Swivel swivel.com
Explore and compare data, graphs and maps, Share insights via email, blog or data downloads, Upload the data you care about.
- Online TV Ads Suck Less Than TV Ads On TV: Study techcrunch.com
A new study by Simmons, a unit of Experian Research Services has found that consumers are 47% more engadged by ads that run with television programs viewed online than those watched on a TV set.
- Stats, stats, baby! « Flickr Blog blog.flickr.com
Flickr now has stats for pro users. Nice.
"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
- Feed Analysis v1.0 Analyzes Your FeedBurner Feeds blogperfume.com
- TV is OFF and going ON line trendsspotting.com
77% of today’s online youth would rather live without television than live without the Internet.
- Chart Chooser chartchooser.juiceanalytics.com
Clever. "Use the filters to find the right chart type for your needs. Then download as Excel or PowerPoint templates and insert your data."
"The organisation that compiles television ratings in the United Kingdom [..] currently, BARB have approximately 5,100 homes". How crazy is it that 5,100 households dictate UK TV ratings? Will VOD fix this?
- No Man’s Blog - Facebook Applications Trends Report #1 no-mans-blog.com
A systematic analysis of the 100 most popular applications - those that have at least 1million users - in an attempt to get a better grasp on favoured activities that take place in this global playground.
- 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.
- The Limitations of Server Log Files for Usability Analysis - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
Server log files are inappropriate for gathering usability data. They are meant to provide server administrators with data about the behavior of the server, not the behavior of the user.
- A List Apart: Articles: Findings From the Web Design Survey alistapart.com
The first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.
- Stats – Groups at Last.fm last.fm
The main objective of this group is to collect all the interesting tools related to music stats that are scattered around last.fm
- nextthing.org » robots.txt Adventure nextthing.org
Great article following up on a robots.txt survey. The linked HTTP headers survey is amusing, too.
- maps.amung.us maps.amung.us
With maps.amung.us you get to see exactly where your site visitors are from - live!
It may very well be that Second Life is over-hyped or ill-conceived for business purposes. Even if so, however, it’s not due to the five provably bogus claims.
The crux of the piece is that despite the hype, real life businesses are closing down their Second Life outposts due to little to no interest in them.