The nominees for the 12th anual Webby Awards have been announced. You can also vote for your favorites at the People’s Voice awards. The Webby Awards recognize the best web sites, online apps and advertising. In short, there’s a lot of inspiration to found there.
Another nice new feature in Google Analytics popped up today. Like all new Google features it’s still in beta, but it provides you with some beautiful insights in your site’s traffic.
You can make a choice when rendering your graphs whether the data should be grouped by day, week or month:
Data grouped per day
Data grouped per week
Data grouped per month
These past two years we’ve seen the emergence of Web 2.0 and all it’s associated dangers. It’s easy to fall for what’s cool instead of focusing on what’s good. Fortunately, these 5 sites know how to use CSS and JavaScript to improve the user experience instead of relying on them to provide that experience.
I haven’t had a great deal of time to look to these (new) tools (for me at least) that go beyond the traditional pageview, # unique visitor model.
They claim to measure engagement:
- Woopra
- Nuconomy
Anyone experience with these?
PS: I know that omniture sitecatalyst version 14 will have video completion reporting.
According to Customer Experience research performed by Forrester, 68% of the online retailers intends to allocate larger budets to web analytics in 2008. The same holds true for Usability (80% more) and usability labs (cited by 53%).
Siemens has the best corporate website in the world! That is, according to research conducted by the website effectiveness consultancy agency Bowen Craggs and the Financial Times. The websites of BP and Shell share the second place.
