On average, US traffic to UK newspaper sites is 36.8% of the UK traffic. The figure for the Telegraph is slightly higher (44.5%) and for the Mail it’s a massive 62.5%.
Read the full post ...By making use of ABCe data, we can check what Alexa says with the official audited data for UK newspapers. As the table shows, it’s OK but not brilliant.
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Ofcom has revealed that people don’t get the broadband speeds they pay for. Well, duh. Here’s a timeline of how we already know that. Their research isn’t groundbreaking or new or revealing something for the first time, as is being claimed. What we need is action: ISPs should be forced to publish a typical range of speeds rather than an upto speed that no one can get.
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Figures from Compete.com, which tracks American internet use, show that, of the 4.7 million unique users that the Mail added from May to June, 1.2 million were from the USA, and foreign searches for Michael Jackson’s kids also drove the Mail’s growth.
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You may not know it, but the www version of your website is not the same as the non-www version.: yourdomain.com/page is NOT THE SAME PAGE as www.yourdomain.com/page. It’s treated as a different URL by search engines, for instance. And if someone leaves off the www (on a link or when they type a URL), they may not get any page at all unless you’ve set your server up right.
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The ABCe website demonstrates the importance of returning a proper 404 status code, as this search at google for abce demonstrates.
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The relaunch of Delia Online has cost Delia Smith half her web traffic in the last 4 weeks, according to stats from Alexa.
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Google has updated its ’sprite’ – the one image it uses to render all its graphics. If you’re not sure what a sprite is, it’s a way to speed up page loads by downloading just one image, and then using CSS to just show the relevant bit.
Read the full post ...Other people have tweeted (or retweeted) the Guardian’s URLs 328,288 times over the last 4 months – way more than any other UK newspaper.
The FT and Times have more followers on Twitter than the Telegraph and Mail – but they’re not tweeted about as often. The Telegraph is in second place: 120,731 tweets have included a link to one if its URLs. The Daily Mail is 3rd with 95,851.
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Do people realise that anyone can see their profile unless they lock it? Here are 10 tweets about the person’s boss from the last week – they’re all from accounts with more than 50 updates, so they should have worked out what’s going on …
Read the full post ...Trinity Mirror has stopped selling paid links without the nofollow tag. Christian Science Monitor has started.
Read the full post ...I recently counted all the official national newspaper twitter accounts. It took a long time. So I want the figures to update automatically. Here’s what I’ve done so far. Can you help me do it better?
Read the full post ...For some reason, Google’s showing a title of “BBC Sport – Cricket: Ashes 2005″ for the BBC’s cricket page, which is of course all about Ashes 2009.
This is despite Google’s cached page having the correct title: “<title>BBC SPORT | Cricket | England</title>”. Maybe Google thinks we’re going to win again? Or maybe QDF stands for [...]
National newspapers have a total of 1,068,898 followers across all their Twitter accounts – with the Guardian, Times and FT the only three papers in the top 10 newspaper accounts. The Guardian’s the clear Twitter winner, as it’s place on the Twitter Suggested User List means that its GuardianTech account has 831,935 followers – 78% of the total …
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Three’s a trend. And five’s a default. Four examples of sites whose logo is a link to the homepage – and who make this abundantly clear by changing the image on mouseover.
Read the full post ...OK, newspapers shouldn’t turn off RSS feeds. I was wrong.
The point I was trying to make was that there didn’t seem much point having RSS icons in your header (Express) or by your search box (Mirror), or offering a brilliant RSS mashup feature (Guardian), or having RSS icons by each section of your news area (Independent) etc etc – but not doing anything to educate people about what they could do with all this.
I recently pointed out that the Delia Online’s relaunch was a right cock up. They’ve now made things worse …
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Is Trinity Mirror selling keyword-rich links on its ic Network without using the nofollow tag? Don’t tell Google …
Read the full post ...Anyway, three’s a trend. So here are three people hitting back at bad reviews in the last week.
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