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.

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. 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

TIOBE Software: Tiobe Index TIOBE Index for January 2016 January Headline: Java is TIOBE's Programming Language of 2015! Java has won the TIOBE Index programming language award of the year. Java's rise goes hand in hand with Objective-C's decline (-5.88%). So what is the outlook for 2016? The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system. TIOBE Programming Community IndexSource: www.tiobe.com Java Python Visual Basic .NET JavaScript Assembly language Ruby Other programming languages The complete top 50 of programming languages is listed below. The Next 50 Programming Languages The following list of languages denotes #51 to #100. This Month's Changes in the Index This month the following changes have been made to the definition of the index: Very Long Term History

PSPP PSPP 2.0.0-pre1 has been released. GNU PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It is a free as in freedom replacement for the proprietary program SPSS, and appears very similar to it with a few exceptions. The most important of these exceptions are, that there are no “time bombs”; your copy of PSPP will not “expire” or deliberately stop working in the future. Neither are there any artificial limits on the number of cases or variables which you can use. PSPP is a stable and reliable application. A brief list of some of the PSPP's features follows below. Support for over 1 billion cases. PSPP is particularly aimed at statisticians, social scientists and students requiring fast convenient analysis of sampled data. Downloading PSPP As with most GNU software, PSPP can be found on the main GNU ftp server: (via HTTP) and (via FTP). There are some additional ways you can download or otherwise obtain PSPP. Documentation