3 Things you should be tracking with your analytics software
What should we be tracking?
This is a question we get asked quite a often – mainly by new customers as well as people who aren’t certain if what …
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11 of the Best Google Analytics Alternatives
So most webmasters know about Google Analytics and have probably used it to some degree, but did you know that there are some pretty good alternatives …
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The Web server (running the Web site) is currently unable to handle the HTTP request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server. The …
Read Article →User Testing and Feedback?
So now you have a website, you use it and love it, but does everybody else?
There are many tools out there that allow you to do User Acceptance …
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Since AO Analytics originally went live in February 2013, we have been doing focused around individual time based reporting, it worked well and we …
Read Article →Track your Alexa Rank History
The Alexa Rank is a way of determining a website’s popularity. ?Alexa.com are in the game of Internet popularity ranking and for quite a long time …
Read Article →SSL Encryption – Update
We have just rolled out SSL encrytion on Statvoo which means:
- Event data is saved over a secure channel
- Authentication is done automatically
- All our …
Why Website Analytics Is So Important These Days
The web has come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, “invented” the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989.
Above is …
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//fromDate
2014 - 01 - 22
//toDate
2014 - 02 - 20
//$arr
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[ISO_DATE] = & gt;
2014 - …Speedtest on Ubuntu Server (commandline)
If you’re managing a headless Ubuntu server and want to check the network speed, you can’t just open speedtest.net in a browser. The …
Read Article →URL GET vars to PHP Array
Sometimes you will need to retrieve the GET variables passed into the current page URI or you will have a URL string to work from which contains …
Read Article →python "AttributeError: ZipFile instance has no attribute ‘__exit__"
This is actually a very easy error to fix, eventhough off the bat it seems a lot more involved.
You probably have syntax something like this:
with …Remove specific HTML tags using PHP
There are times when you want to remove a specific HTML tag from an HTML block of text.
This could be an anchor(<a/>) or an image(<img/>) …
Keep Google Map v3 centered when browser is resized
Using Google Maps V3 Javascript API you can keep the map centered to the browser’s window by using the following trick when resizing the window. …
Read Article →Buy a Google Nexus 10 in the UK!
If you are looking to get a Google Nexus 10 inch tablet and are based in the UK you are in for a shocker!
The only place to buy it is at the Google …
Read Article →Let Joomla and MySQL interact!
I often need a quick and easy few lines to retrieve some data from MySQL using Joomla without all the MVC nonsense that usually goes about this topic. …
Read Article →Perform a Mysql Query using Joomla!
This is really actually meant for future reference for myself as lately I’ve been doing quite a lot of Joomla! mysql coding and have used the …
Read Article →Refresh User Data in Joomla
I was busy with a custom component in Joomla, and it stored it’s own user_details based off of the main users table, but if the details were …
Read Article →Extract email addresses from a string – PHP
Sometimes you need to extract multiple email addresses from a string and the following function will make all your dreams come true.
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This is a very hot topic indeed.
Definitely one that everyone with a website should know all about.
To begin our journey we will look directly at …
Read Article →jQuery limit fields to alphanumeric characters only
I was trying to restrict a form’s field from only allowing the user to enter alphanumeric characters into it. I looked all around and …
Read Article →Make a dynamic year dropdown using PHP
Ever wanted to have a dropdown that automatically showed the current year and the few years before it?
This is a quick and easy way to do exactly …
Read Article →Pad a string with zeros using PHP
Recently I had to create a code/username maker to fit into a certain type of pattern so that all “broker codes” (as they were called) …
Read Article →ImportError: No module named MySQLdb (Python)
Trying to use MySQL with Python and getting an ImportError?
Traceback (most recent call last): File "some_file.py", line 4, in import MySQLdb as …Read Article →