- Bitly experiment shows what's garnering the most attention on the web right now Want to know what links are garnering the most attention on the web right now? With bitly's new graduated lab experiment, Realtime, now you can.
- Google Chrome reigns supreme for second consecutive month Google Chrome has managed to retain its position of prevalence over Internet Explorer for a second consecutive month according to data from web analytics firm StatCounter.
- DataSift now monitors Wikipedia in real-time, tracks trending articles DataSift has added Wikipedia as a data source in its Social Data Platform, allowing companies to track mentions of products and services in real-time on the internet's largest user collaborated encyclopedia.
- Google Analytics used on over 10 million websites During Google's Q1 2012 earnings call, Chief Business Officer Nikesh Arora revealed that Google Analytics, Google's website statistics service, is used on over 10 million websites.
- Twitter's getting analytical in the coming months Twitter is set to unveil its long-awaited analytics tool, as well as a new blog that will "highlight great pieces of Twitter in real time", in the coming months. Yesterday we reported that Twitter would shortly introduce enhanced brand pages.
- Report: Ireland, the internet and mobile devices in 2011 As the year draws to a close we delve into our own site analytics to see what mobile devices Irish internet users were using in 2011. It comes as no surprise to find that Apple's iPhone leads the way by a country-mile.
- Twitter gets more powerful with new analytics tool Twitter has just announced Twitter Web Analytics on their developers blog - a new service that will allow webmasters to accurately measure the amount of traffic Twitter is sending to their websites.
- Why Twitter is turning increasingly towards t.co link shortening Yesterday we reported how one could avoid Twitter's somewhat annoying t.co URL shortener by using lesser known URL services like j.mp, or by keeping the URL length to 20 characters or less. Unfortunately, this hack will not last forever as Twitter does plan to wrap all links, regardless of length, with its own t.co link service. Why? It's all to do with analytics.
- Two-thirds of Irish companies use Google Analytics According to a survey by Irish web analytics consultants, Analytics.ie, almost two-thirds of Ireland’s largest companies are using Google Analytics.