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Monthly Archives: September 2009

Sep 22
Sep 22 1 comments

More Fun with Optimization

As promised, my troubleshooting is done (with Wordpress and GA and Website Optimizer), so I can write about the latest attempt at optimizing something not really worth optimizing.  I was encouraged by a couple people to take the plunge with multi-variate optimization, and I finally did. Granted, its just the work section on this site, [...]

Sep 22
Sep 22 0 comments

Wordpress Upgrade in Progress Now Complete

This time I got rid of the blank screen of death in only 2 hours! w00t! I think everything is back to normal, and I’ve tried installed/uninstalling plugins to make things run better. Maybe next time I upgrade Wordpress I will only have 1 hour of blank screen of death! At least its not running [...]

Sep 19
Sep 19 0 comments

Pimp Post #3

It’s that time.  Some of these events aren’t until October, but that’s ok.

InfoCamp on Oct. 10/11 2009! It’s in its 3rd year, and this year I fully intend to go. From what Rachel Elkington tells me, it might sell out this year, so you need to get tickets soon.  Find out more about this “unconference” [...]

Sep 15
Sep 15 4 comments

ZOMG! Omniture + Adobe and some other stuff

So I can’t really post on anything I’m doing, because I’m doing some troubleshooting on things, but expect posts on multi-variate optimization, a cool SEO hack for Google Analytics, and the ever growing list of data visualization tools I need to try out.  In the meantime, in case you missed it, Adobe bought Omniture today. [...]

Sep 08
Sep 08 5 comments

The Latest Data Visualization Toys

Lately I’ve been seeing a ton of new data visualization tools/experiments that I thought were worth sharing. One is not really applicable to web analytics or reporting, but others are.
Trendly
I saw a post about Trendly on the Google Analytics Blog, its an application that leverages GA data to display it in a way that is [...]