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15 Tools for Monitoring a Website’s Popularity
As a web designer or developer building a site, it’s helpful to first scout similar websites (i.e. the competition) to help you make design and development decisions. Knowing what websites work and which ones tank can give you insights and inspiration on what design elements, website features, and website content is effective. To help you in your analysis, here are 15 top-notch, free, and simple web tools to help you learn more about a particular website. 1. Yahoo! Site Explorer Site explorer allows you to inspect certain aspects of a URL. 2. Compete is a web-based analytics tools that allows you to compare the traffic statistics and trends of up to three websites. 3. Quantcast is another popular site traffic measuring tool. 4. Started in 1996, Alexa is the most popular traffic ranking service today. 5. An effective way to determine a website’s popularity is by tracking its RSS feed subscriber trends. 6. popuri.us 7. socialmeter 8. 9. 10. 11. Technorati is the leading blog search engine.
Drools
Drools - The Business Logic integration Platform Drools 5 introduces the Business Logic integration Platform which provides a unified and integrated platform for Rules, Workflow and Event Processing. It's been designed from the ground up so that each aspect is a first class citizen, with no compromises. Upcoming events JUDCon Brasil Overview Drools and jBPM consist out of several projects: Drools Guvnor (Business Rules Manager) Drools Expert (rule engine) jBPM 5 (process/workflow) Drools Fusion (event processing/temporal reasoning) OptaPlanner (automated planning) These projects have community releases from JBoss.org that come without support. Thanks To:
free statistical software
click here to return to methods page click here to return to social change page This page lists primarily statistical software, along with mapping, spreadsheets, database, stuff to do data analysis or management. All of the packages are free to use, that is: there is no charge for individuals to use them. Many of the websites say that individuals are free to download and use the packages. Please note: I've only used a few of these software programs a little bit, so I can't say much about how good they are, whether they crash, have viruses, or much else about them. Statistics There are many free statistical programs. Several of these stat programs were reviewed in an article in the Journal of Industrial Technology, (Volume 21-2, April 2005). "A Short Preview of Free Statistical Software Packages for Teaching Statistics to Industrial Technology Majors" Ms. Other lists of free stat software John C. Betty Jung's page
community driven
Like kosmos? It’s part of a community of Red Hat projects. Learn more about Red Hat and our open source communities: A JBoss Project Red Hat Kosmos Kosmos "Kosmos" stands for Komposite Open Source Monitoring Suite. Kosmos is a suite of software development project monitoring portlets, developed at JBoss Labs. Well, a picture is worth a thousand words: take a look at the screenshots! Project infrastructure details Professional support If you needed professional support for Kosmos, please contact Midori for more details. Useful Links Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL v2.1) Red Hat, Inc.
Tableau Data Reshaper How To 1
Visitors - fast web log analyzer
No installation required, can process up to 150,000 lines of log entries per second in fast computers (20MB/s with my log files average length). Designed to be executed by the command line, output html and text reports. The text report can be used in pipe to less to check web stats from ssh. Support for real time statistics with the Visitors Stream Mode introduced with version 0.3. To specify the log format is not needed at all. 0.7 released Changes for the 0.7 version include: --grep and --exclude options to process only line matching or not matching specified patterns. 0.61 released That's just a bugfix release, the only difference with 0.6 is that stats about unique visitors here are much more accurate, now Visitors can better recognize (and ingore) bots other than Google bots and strip their accesses from stats. News! Reports information Using the graphviz mode Visitors will process the web log files and output a graph ready to be rendered using Graphviz. Examples Extending Visitors Bugs
Top 10 Spreadsheet Secrets From A Nonprofit Data Nerd
Note from Beth: I made a personal goal for myself to get past my dislike of spreadsheets and become more fluent. First I had to “Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. Why get good at Excel? Even if you are using a paid tool measure your results, knowing how to use a spreadsheet well will be invaluable to your measurement program. While writing the “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit,” and now teaching workshops on strategy and measurement for networked nonprofits, I realize that knowing how to use excel to set up and automate a dashboard, integrate data from exported from different programs, get insights, and make it visual are basic data literacy skills. And, knowing a few secrets will help you save time. Top 10 Secrets of Excel Data Nerds By Ann Emery I read Beth’s post, Help! Here are the top 10 things you need to know in Excel to become a data nerd: Secret #10. Secret #9. Secret #8. Secret #7. Secret #6. Secret #5.
