Tuesday, May 18, 2010

RSS & Counters

Counters, like the name suggests, counts. They count the number of visitors you have had to your page. These counters can count up or down, depending on your preferences. There are many different counters available, some free and some that you can buy. These are a good form of market research to see if webpage’s are working or not.
Another method for web analysis is; web server log-file analysis, or through the use of page-tagging. The first stores information in regard to the pages that are visited and builds data with regards to the popularity of the website. Page-tagging on the other-hand uses JavaScript on each page to notify a third-party server when a page is rendered by a web browser

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is web feed formats used to publish frequent updates such as blogs, news headlines, audio and videos. RSS allows subscribed followers to receive update with no need to search the web and particular pages themselves. Google Reader is capable of RSS feeds online or offline. It monitors fellow users and keeps track of all updates. It can be accessed offline through Google Gears, a browser extension that lets online applications work offline. Updates can also be received through a mobile i.e. iPhone users.

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