Urchin Software Beta Now Public
Today we're happy to announce that the Urchin Software from Google beta is now available for download at urchin.com. Urchin Software from Google is a web analytics...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/01/2008 | Website Analytics

Enterprise Web 2.0 predictions from Forrester
Forrester published a report, “Top Enterprise Web 2.0 Predictions For 2008” ($775, about $100 per page), which concludes that blogs, wikis, and social networking...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/29/2008 | Website Analytics

China’s Internet Population Soars to 210 Million
The Chinese government said Friday its Internet population has soared to 210 million people, putting it on track to surpass the U.S. online community this year...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/20/2008 | Website Analytics

YouTube’s Traffic Continues to Snowball
More content begets more viewers, which, in turn, beget more content. That’s the virtuous cycle — the network effect — that has propelled Google-owned YouTube...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/18/2008 | Website Analytics

Perspective: Myspace Still Kicking Facebook's Ass in Traffic
While the media and Silicon Valley have lost our collective minds over the rise of Facebook over the past year, traffic analysts Hitwise released numbers today...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/17/2008 | Website Analytics

A Web 2.0 Dashboard for Buzz
StrategyEye is mixing Web search services with in-house analysis to provide companies with business info in easy-to-digest, interactive formats.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/16/2008 | Website Analytics

Google Sees Surge in iPhone Traffic
Google and Yahoo say iPhones are accounting for a disproportionate amount of Web traffic to their sites from mobile devices.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/14/2008 | Website Analytics

What's a Widget Worth?
Software developers say their impact is being underrepresented; comScore hopes a new measurement tool will paint a clearer picture.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/08/2008 | Website Analytics

2007 In Numbers: iGoogle Google’s Homegrown Star Performer This Year
2007 was another big year for Google with the company growing to become America’s fifth largest listed stock (by market cap) whilst continuing its march towards...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/22/2007 | Website Analytics

comScore Media Metrix Releases Top 50 Web Rankings for November
comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at top online properties for November 2007 from its...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/22/2007 | Website Analytics

Finalists Announced for Crunchies Awards
The finalists have now been announced for the Crunchies, the awards show we’re co-hosting with Techcrunch, GigaOm and VentureBeat. Voting will be live through...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/22/2007 | Website Analytics

Google Analytics Updates - Compare Data Points
There’s no official announcement from Google, but we’re seeing new features showing-up in Google Analytics.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/13/2007 | Website Analytics

NYTimes Surges, Cnet Slumps
Ever since the NYTimes.com swept away the last remaining boulders of its subscription pay wall (aka Times Select) in mid-September, its traffic has been going...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/11/2007 | Website Analytics

Nielsen, Digimarc Prep Media Manager
The Nielsen Co. said it has developed a product that would allow media companies to police the distribution of their video content on sites like YouTube—and ultimately...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/06/2007 | Website Analytics

Don’t You Dare Call Them “Old”
Baby boomers and silver surfers are still rockin’ online. Many marketers, particularly online, concentrate on reaching younger users. But that could be a multibillion-dollar...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/06/2007 | Website Analytics

Top Blogs Team Up for Open Web Awards: Sponsorships Open!
I am very pleased to announce that our humble Mashable Awards has grown thanks to a great response to our partnerships offer.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/21/2007 | Website Analytics

African Americans Still Lag Online
African Americans are becoming more active online. In fact, eMarketer estimates that they will make up 11.8% of all US Internet users in 2011, up from 10.8% in 2006.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/16/2007 | Website Analytics

Nielsen: Facebook Growth Outpaces MySpace
Facebook’s unique audience grew by 1.5 million people in October, according to a report released this week by Nielsen Online.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/16/2007 | Website Analytics

Kawasaki: How Compete competes with Alexa, comScore
Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, Technorati 50 blogger, and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/10/2007 | Website Analytics

Radiohead Raps ComScore Over Download Report
ComScore said 62 percent of downloaders paid nothing for Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' release, but the band has denounced the report as "wholly inaccurate."
eBusiness News | Posted 11/09/2007 | Website Analytics

Introducing The 2007 Crunchies
I am very happy to announce the first (of many, hopefully) annual Crunchies, a year-end startup competition and award ceremony/party that we are coordinating with three...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/06/2007 | Website Analytics

Publishers See a Way to Track Their Content Across the Net
A new company offers publishers a way to hunt down any place across the Web where a significant chunk of thier work has been copied, with or without permission.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/05/2007 | Website Analytics

Please! Abolish The Web's Evil Page-View Count
The digital revolution has given journalists some fantastic tools. Web sites like Google and Wikipedia give us instant access to voluminous research on virtually any subject.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/05/2007 | Website Analytics

CEO and Three Top Execs Ousted at WebTrends
Big news rocked the analytics industry for the second time in two weeks as WebTrends's board of directors ousted CEO Greg Drew and three of his top executives.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/03/2007 | Website Analytics

How Many Web Site Hits? Depends Who’s Counting
Even though online advertising is growing fast, that growth is being stunted, industry executives say, because nobody can get the basic visitor counts straight.
eBusiness News | Posted 10/22/2007 | Website Analytics

The Expanding European Web
Taken as a whole, consumers from Western European nations such as France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom are among the world’s keenest users of the Web.
eBusiness News | Posted 10/19/2007 | Website Analytics

Google Analytics Adds New Features; Finally Updates Software Version
Just days after Ars Technica criticized Google for acquiring Urchin and then letting the software version of the analytics package rot, Google will today announce Urchin Software.
eBusiness News | Posted 10/16/2007 | Website Analytics

Google Reader Stats are BS (With Proof)
Google Reader stats, in case you don’t know, are bullshit. In fact, all Feedburner stats for most top blogs are bullshit due to the effect of default feeds.
eBusiness News | Posted 10/15/2007 | Website Analytics

Facebook Traffic Tanks - This Can’t be Real?
comScore is about to issue September 2007 user engagement and page views data, and it seems like the SVFurby, I mean Facebook unique visitors took a little dip.
eBusiness News | Posted 10/11/2007 | Website Analytics

Internet Allstars ‘01: Where Are They Now?
We’ve been tracking internet activity for a while. Long enough, in fact, to look back now and find some really cool stuff. The table below shows the largest 50...
eBusiness News | Posted 10/02/2007 | Website Analytics

Slide.com Grows 228% May - Sep, Overtakes Flickr in NZ
Photo-sharing website, Slide.com grew by 228% between 5 May 2007 and 22 September 2007, overtaking Flickr during the week ending 8 September 2007 in the...
eBusiness News | Posted 9/28/2007 | Website Analytics

Fans Flock To Sports Sites
Top sports site users skew young and male, based on a comScore analysis of visitors to ESPN.com, Fox Sports on MSN, and Yahoo! Sports.
eBusiness News | Posted 9/26/2007 | Website Analytics

Quantcast Broadens Media Measurement
Websites in Quantcast's 'Quantified Publisher' program now have some new free media measurement tools to help determine the effectiveness of the videos and ...
eBusiness News | Posted 9/25/2007 | Website Analytics

comScore Releases August U.S. Search Engine Rankings
comScore a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace.
eBusiness News | Posted 9/22/2007 | Website Analytics

Americans Giving up Friends, Sex for Web Life
Surfing the net has become an obsession for many Americans with the majority of U.S. adults feeling they cannot go for a week without going online and one in ...
eBusiness News | Posted 9/20/2007 | Website Analytics

comScore Media Metrix Releases Top 50 Web Rankings for August
comScore Media Metrix today released its monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at top online properties for August 2007.
eBusiness News | Posted 9/18/2007 | Website Analytics

Google Rolls Out New Webmaster Tools Features
Google's Webmaster tools keeps getting better and better as more features are rolled out. Aside from the new look of the webmaster...
eBusiness News | Posted 9/15/2007 | Website Analytics

More MSFT Gatineau Web Analytics Screenshots
According to Robin Wauters, Microsoft's free challenger to Google Analytics, Gatineau, should beta launch next week.
eBusiness News | Posted 9/15/2007 | Website Analytics

Google Analytics Was Partly Showing Wrong Absolute Visitors
Google's web statistics service, Analytics, was partly showing the wrong value for 'Absolute Unique Visitors,' Google said in a statement.
eBusiness News | Posted 9/13/2007 | Website Analytics

Facebook Now Ranked 3rd in Page Views
MySpace has enjoyed a relatively long and successful run as in a red hot sector of the internet, but it may not be long before the site has to defend this title.
eBusiness News | Posted 9/11/2007 | Website Analytics

Firefox hits 400 Million Downloads; Eat that IE!
News out of the Firefox camp tonight is that the browser has been downloaded over 400 million times. Very impressive.
eBusiness News | Posted 9/08/2007 | Website Analytics

Hitwise: Obama and Paul Top Traffic Charts in August
Barack Obama and Ron Paul continued to rule the site traffic rankings among their respective Democratic and Republican presidential candidate counterparts...
eBusiness News | Posted 9/07/2007 | Website Analytics

Business Intelligence: The Next Frontier
Business intelligence is arguably the most important enterprise application in your company. But questions abound: How can you get more workers using it?
eBusiness News | Posted 8/27/2007 | Website Analytics

'Hey! Nielsen,' Why Are You Going Viral?
FIRST THERE WAS MYSPACE. THEN there was Facebook. Now the world's biggest researcher is launching "Hey! Nielsen," a new online social community where people ...
eBusiness News | Posted 8/24/2007 | Website Analytics

Silver Surfers Beat The Young as Web Wizards
Pensioners surfing the internet are spending more time online than their younger counterparts.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/23/2007 | Website Analytics

The Online Numbers Game
Measuring web traffic is far from an exact science, and that's a big problem for online advertisers, writes Fortune's Jessi Hempel.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/23/2007 | Website Analytics

comScore Introduces Significant Enhancements to Search Measurement
comScore, Inc. , a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the launch of comScore qSearch 2.0, the second generation of search measurement.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/20/2007 | Website Analytics

comScore Media Metrix Releases Top 50 Web Ranking for July
comScore Media Metrix today released its monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at top online properties for July 2007.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/18/2007 | Website Analytics

New York Times Select Rumor - Data Perspective
The NY Post set the rumor mill churning last week with a report that the New York Times is set to drop the subscription fee to the New York Times Select.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/16/2007 | Website Analytics

Meet the Little Guys Who Are Challenging ComScore, NetRatings
Move over, Nielsen/NetRatings and ComScore -- a new crop of measurement services with names such as Quantcast, Compete and Alexa have popped up, vying to provide quick....
eBusiness News | Posted 8/09/2007 | Website Analytics

ClickTale Launches Link Analytics: How Hot is Your Site?
On Monday ClickTale, which provides movies of your visitors' activity on your website, will open to everyone and launch the 'ClickTale Heatmap with Link Analytics'.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/05/2007 | Website Analytics

Why It Will Be Hard to Close the Broadband Divide
The ritual is familiar to those who follow communications policy: Every six months, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) releases its...
eBusiness News | Posted 8/02/2007 | Website Analytics

'Mashups' Sew Data Together
As Hurricane Katrina approached the Gulf Coast in August 2005, storm trackers at Schumacher Group, a Lafayette, La., company that manages physicians for ...
eBusiness News | Posted 8/01/2007 | Website Analytics

The Globe Is Going Online
The worldwide online population will grow to 1.5 billion in 2011, from 1.1 billion in 2006, according to JupiterResearch's "Worldwide Online Population Forecast...
eBusiness News | Posted 8/01/2007 | Website Analytics

Social Networking Goes Global
ComScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of a study on the expansion of social networking across the globe...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/31/2007 | Website Analytics

ComScore and Nielsen Broaden the Metrics Game
Engagement and other measurement questions are bringing new metrics to the table from major players. ComScore is introducing Segment Metrix, while Nielsen's ...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/28/2007 | Website Analytics