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Linux Market Share At A Record High

The W3S stats for last month (June) show the Linux market share at 4.8%. Sure, it's not 100% accurate but it's nevertheless impressive. The stats only include internet-connected computers (desktops only - servers are not included in these stats) but since there is a fairly big number of computer using Linux which are not connected to the internet, the number may actually be pretty close to the actual Linux market share.

This is a 0.3% increase since last month which even though it might not seem like much, comparing it with the total Linux market share is actually a lot!


W3S stats is the optimistic upper margin. The lower margin seems to still be somewhere around 1%, with marketshare.hitslink.com reporting 1.07% and Statcounter reporting even lower stats: 0.8% - all for June 2010.


Display Google Analytics Stats On Your Website [Public Stats]

We use GAPI (gapi-google-analytics-php-interface) to display Google Analytics page views and visits to everyone, without requiring a password - it's all done by using the Google Analytics API.

To make some Google Analytics stats public, you need a PHP5 web host but it you don't have one, there are lots of free alternatives out there and you can then embed the stats using in iframe (very easy).

I have modified the example report which comes with GAPI to display the month, year, number of page views, visits and so on, and sort it by year and then month. It basically looks like this:

google analitycs public stats.

You can view a demo right here, on Web Upd8. As you can see, Google Analytics public stats can be easily integrated into Blogger too (I saw lots of requests of using this in Blogger blogs).

Download GAPI + my Google Analytics public stats example


Koego: Complete Twitter and FriendFeed Statistics For Your Account

At a first look, Koego is just another free statistics service for your blog which does not impress and gives you no reason to give up Google Analytics for it. But then I discovered the Social Media stats integrated into Koego and that's when I was really impressed. Basically, Koego provides stats for your Twitter account (and FriendFeed) which inlude:

For The First Time, IE Goes Below 60%, Firefox Surpasses 30%

For the very first time, Internet Explorer has fallen below 60% market share mark, from 62.09% to 59.49%

Good news for Firefox fans as well, it has finally surpassed 30% market share mark, went up from 28.75% to 30.33%

Nearing its final, version 10 release, Opera web browser also increased its market share by 0.13, from 3.23% to 3.36%

With the launch of Safari 4 final, this web browser market share went up by 0.28 points, from 2.65% to 2.93%

Google Chrome continues its healthy growth, up by 0.4, from 2.42% to 2.82%


browser stats june 2009

Live Firefox Download Stats

Since Firefox was released today, here is a link which shows how many Firefox builds are downloaded, in real time: http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/.

And a something for Web Upd8's readers which use Ubuntu: don't forget there is a repo with the latest Firefox 3.5.

ClickHeat: Free Click Heat Map for Your Website

ClickHeat is a visual presentation of the zones your visitors click within your website. ClickHeat is an OpenSource software, released under GPL licence, and free of charge.

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Requirements

- on the browser's client: Javascript (tested on Firefox 2.0, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Konqueror)
- on the server: either Linux or Windows (since ClickHeat 1.3 release), Apache or Lighttpd (other may work fine), PHP, the graphic library GD2 (PNG support needed)

Step by step instructions on how to install and set up ClickHeat:

Please note that you need a web host to run ClickHeat, but you can use it to track clicks from any other website.

1. Download ClickHeat

2. Extract the contents and upload the clickheat folder to a webserver that meets the requirements (see above).

3. Go to http://your-host.com/clickheat/index.php, where "your-host.com" is the host where you uploaded the clickheat directory and /clickheat/index assumes you uploaded the clickheat folder into the root directory.

4. When prompted to configure ClickHeat, leave everything 'as is' (if you don't know what each option does) except the "Domain names (separated by commas) allowed to log clicks on this server" field where you must enter the domain name for the website which you plan on using ClickHeat on, then input an username and password and click "Check configuration", then "Save configuration".

5. Go to http://your-host.com/clickheat/index.php and click "Javascript", enter a name for your website and check one of these:
-use a keyword: if you want all the clicks to be tracked as a single page
-use webpage's title: to create logs for each page (and view them separately) based on the page title
-use webpage's URL: to create logs for each page (and view them separately) based on the page url

6. Copy the Javascript code from step 5 into your website's template/source code.

Now all you have to do is visit http://your-host.com/clickheat/index.php and you will see where everyone clicks, using a color heat map.

You can see a demo on how this works by going to this page and entering: username: demo, password: demo.

StumbleUpon Launches Su.pr Special URL Shortening Service [250 Invites via TechCrunch]

photobucket

Su.pr is a new URL shortening service from StumbleUpon which besides the normal short url service, also helps your content get discovered! Every Su.pr URL exposes your content to StumbleUpon's nearly 8 million users.

The service is currently in private beta, but TechCrunch has 250 invites: enter the promotional code: suprtc

Mashable & RRW also offer invites, so you can register using this promo codes: suprmash, suprrww or suprww.

The key for this new service is obviously the stats. They are similar to what you’d find using bit.ly, except that Su.pr is plugged into Stumbleupon, which gives each link an extra distribution push. Each link can then be voted upon by the StumbleUpon community, and if it becomes popular, it can take on a new life. For StumbleUpon, it is a way to seed the service with links people are already pushing out to their real-time streams. StumbleUpon links take longer to gain momentum, so one benefit is that it could extend the life of good links.

The urls use a top bar so that when people visit those link, they are also able vote them on StumbleUpon.

Photobucket Launches Stats Dashboard

Photobucket launched a major new feature: a stats dashboard. This dashboard measures how often your images and videos are viewed on other sites. So if you embed your media on other sites, you can measure its popularity.

To see your stats dashboard, click on "stats" in the top right corner of your album.



Free users:

  • Daily stats for the past 14 days
  • Limited to top 5 files for the account
  • Limited to top 3 linking domains
  • Includes views for images, videos, slideshows and scrapbooks
  • Includes stats on comments and ratings also

Photobucket Pro users are the same as Free except:

  • Includes all files for the account
  • Includes all linking domains for the account

There are three dashboards: for files, albums and for the whole account.

Files Dashboard

Albums Dashboard

Account Dashboard