Consultant, CMO, Non-Exec
Here’s a breakdown of how 2 of the most prominent search algorithms on the web appear to be presenting information that it would be illegal for you or I to communicate. The first is the Twitter search algorithm, tweaked recently in a way which (inadvertently) increases the likelihood of people finding out ‘illegal’ information. The second …
Google Analytics has a set of ‘speed’ reports, found under the the ‘Content’ left-hand navigation item. Here are 10 very quick “Google Analytics Site Speed” tips, collected together for ease of reading: All of the load speed data in Google Analytics is taken from users’ browsers themselves, so is fairly accurate. The browser stores all this …
There’s a story in the news at the moment about a woman (Naomi Oni) who was attacked with acid on the way home from work, almost lost her sight as a result, and had her skin badly burned. The Follow-up Story: “Was it self-inflicted????” A series of follow-up stories ask “Did she actually do this …
Here’s a graph showing interest in the phrase ‘Responsive Design’ over the last couple of years: Responsive design is (as you probably know) where you design a website/pages in such a way that the content displays differently on different devices. Usually that means navigation/content is organised differently on phone vs desktop/laptop (and sometimes differently on …
Continue reading “The Next Big Challenge for Responsive Design”
They’ve just changed (quite significantly) the way the ‘+1’ & ‘share’ buttons on Google+ posts look. I thought it would be worth going back and looking at how things looked when it first launched vs how it looks now. Below are 2 screengrabs of exactly the same Google+ post, 18 months apart. The first image …
Here’s another small tweak to the Google Analytics user interface. The charts in ‘Overview’ reports used to be pinned to the left, even if you were using a very, very wide screen. Now, they concertina out depending on the width of your screen. (not shown in the screengrab below, they also now label these with …
Continue reading “Google Analytics Overview Charts – UI Change”
Nine Google Analytics Changes Google Analytics have rolled out a series of fairly big changes to their User Interface. They do this every so often, either to incorporate extra functionality, or simply to clean up the user interface & improve user experience. (See the tweaks they made last time, for example). This time around …