Posted: June 1st, 2010 | Author: jriggs | Filed under: professional, web | No Comments »
GA informing me of a *slight* traffic increase
Recently I was lucky enough to have a link I submitted to reddit (comment page) make it to the site’s front page. While my link was originally posted to the sub-reddit r/programming, it quickly gained popularity and was on the main page for nearly 24 hours.
Here’s a look at the raw access log, I’ve included the entire month to show how drastic the increase (and subsequent decrease) in traffic was. The link was submitted on May 24th. The image itself was just over 171 KB, quite a bit of bandwidth was used, fortunately, my host allows 500GB transfer per month.
Here we can see the numbers leading up to the surge
And the corresponding numbers (of the peak day) from Google Analytics which line up very well.
And now, a closer look at the redditors themselves:
Browsers Used
No surprise: Firefox is the preferred browser among the tech crowd. More interesting in my opinion is Chrome beating out IE almost 4 to 1.
Operating Systems:
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Bonus – a few of the sites that picked up the link shortly after it appeared on Reddit’s frontpage:
Those are the numbers that were most interesting to me. Did I leave anything out? Leave me a comment and I will add it if possible, thanks.
Posted: February 11th, 2010 | Author: jriggs | Filed under: firefox, web | No Comments »
There must be a bug in Firefox 3.5.7 that is keeping it from clearing you recent history. I was able to clear this data using CCleaner (mac users can do the same with Clean App). Just make sure to close down Firefox before running CCleaner. Then double check that the checkboxes in the ‘Application’ tab are set as follows:
Posted: February 10th, 2010 | Author: jriggs | Filed under: firefox, web | Tags: firefox, keyboard, shortcuts | No Comments »
Here is a quick list of shortcuts that I commonly use to speed up my browsing experience. Most of these shortcuts should work on other modern browsers such as Opera and Chrome, however I haven’t tested them all yet. Feedback is most certainly appreciated.
- Middle clicking (scroll wheel) a link will open it in a new tab. It will also close a tab. Holding ctrl while middle clicking will open it in the foreground
- F6 highlights the address bar. Ctrl + l does the same but it also will select all the text (if only a portion of the url is highlighted)
- Ctrl+t to open a new tab with the focus on the address bar.
- “/” opens quick find.
- Ctrl+u to view the page’s source.
- Ctrl+[tab] to switch between tabs, also holding shift reverses the direction.
- Ctrl+0 to reset text to the default size.
- Ctrl+[shift]+t re-opens most recently closed tab.
- ctrl+w closes current tab
Posted: December 13th, 2009 | Author: jriggs | Filed under: web, wordpress | Tags: blank, dtd, html, html template, template, transitional | 1 Comment »
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