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Weekend Roundup #146

Jaypee Habaradas — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 04:13:27 +0000

Hi folks and welcome to the 146th edition of the Weekend Roundup! Hope you all had a good weekend. Btw, I wasn’t able to publish a Weekend Roundup the past couple of weeks because I’ve been very busy during the weekends. This week, I was able to find time to do it because I just stayed home the whole day Sunday because I wasn’t feeling well – headache, sore throat and a slight cold. I guess being sick has its advantages and disadvantages. Anyways, hope you guys enjoy reading this week’s roundup.

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Google Analytics Site Speed Tracking Feature

Jaypee Habaradas — Tue, 10 May 2011 22:59:13 +0000

A few days ago, Google Analytics added a new feature – site speed tracking. This feature enables users to not only check the site speed but also check specific page/post load times, determine the different page load times across different geographic locations or site speed between different browsers.

Here’s the official announcement from the Google Analytics blog:

At Google, we are passionate about speed and making the web faster, and we are glad to see that many website owners share the same idea. A faster web is better for both users and businesses. A slow loading landing page not only impacts your conversion rate, but can also impact AdWords Landing Page Quality and ranking in Google search.
To improve the performance of your pages, you first need to measure and diagnose the speed of a page, which can be a difficult task. Furthermore, even with page speed measurements, it’s critical to look at page speed in context of other web analytics data.
Therefore, we are thrilled to announce the availability of the Site Speed report in the new Google Analytics platform. With the Site Speed report you can measure the page load time across your site.

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Uses for the Site Speed Report

Content: Which landing pages are slowest?
Traffic sources: Which campaigns correspond to faster page loads overall?
Visitor: How does page load time vary across geographies?
Technology: Does your site load faster or slower for different browsers?

The Site Speed tracking feature is available only to the new Google Analytics under Content > Site Speed. This new feature is disabled by default so won’t see any results on the Site Speed section on your Google Analytics account, until it is enabled. To enable it, all you need to do is add/insert a single line of code to the asynchronous code:

[php]_gaq.push(['_trackPageLoadTime']);[/php]

What I did was to add it below my existing Analytics code:

[php][/php]

It takes about 24 hours before you can see results and view the load time of your website/blog. I just recently added the Site Speed tracking feature to my Google Analytics account to track load times for JaypeeOnline. I tried comparing the results on Google Analytics Site Speed vs. Pingdom Tools and load times were a few seconds lower on Google Analytics. Although I’m not sure which one is more accurate, I’m happy that the load times are lower on Google Analytics because it means that I’m closer to the standard used by Google.

Anybody else using or tried the Google Analytics Site Speed tracking feature? What do you like/dislike about this new feature? What other features would you like to see added to Google Analytics? Please share your thoughts.

Weekend Roundup #128

Jaypee Habaradas — Mon, 09 May 2011 13:24:25 +0000

Hello everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend, especially all the mother’s who celebrated Mother’s Day yesterday. Welcome to the 128th edition of the Weekend Roundup. My apologies for it being published late. Spent the whole day yesterday with the family celebrating Mother’s Day. Although this edition is late, it doesn’t mean that the articles and links aren’t worth reading. There are a lot of cool stuff this week so make sure to check them out. Enjoy!

Btw for those who aren’t aware, I’m currently having a 1,500 business cards giveaway courtesy of AllBusinessCards.com. I’ll also be posting another giveaway within the next few days so watch out for it.

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Blog Updates 04.11

Jaypee Habaradas — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:49:49 +0000

Wow, time flies so fast! I never realized ’til a few days ago that I haven’t published a blog update for more than a year already. My last blog update was done on November 2009. For those who are new here and aren’t familiar with my blog updates, these posts are done not only to share with the readers the plugins/tools I use and site improvements/changes, but it also serves as a “note” for myself so I have a record of the stuff that I’ve installed/uninstalled and the changes I’ve made to the site.

Below are the plugins and other stuff that I’ve installed/uninstalled, added/removed or changed since my last update.

Uninstalled Plugins

Comment Info Detector – plugin that detects and displays the commenter’s country, web browser and operating system.
CommentLuv – plugin that displays the commenter’s latest blog post based on their RSS feed.
Wibiya Toolbar – official Wibiya Toolbar plugin that integrates different social networking features, apps, widgets and other tools.

These plugins all work fine and are pretty nifty plugins but the reason I uninstalled all three plugins was to cut down the “fat” on this blog. I’m working on lessening the resources used on the server and lessening page load times. Less plugins = less resources used. Although they provided neat features, the blog could run without them.

Installed Plugins

Dashboard Notepad – plugin that adds a simple notepad widget within the WordPress dashboard. You can read the review I made for this plugin here.
PubSubHubbub – plugin that enables a blog to let other parties know in real-time when there are new updates.
W3 Total Cache – performance optimization (caching) plugin that improves server performance, improves page load times and user experience.

Installed the Dashboard Notepad plugin so I could write down notes (drafts, to-do lists, etc.) on my WordPress dashboard. I installed PubSubHubbub to enable real-time updates to Google Reader, FriendFeed, etc. Last time, I was using WP Super Cache and then I came across the W3 Total Cache plugin. Tried it and never looked back as it provided more features, did the job better (page load times were better with W3TC than WP Super Cache) and it was compatible with other plugins I used.

Other Changes

Reinvigorate – I previously had a premium account on Reinvigorate which cost $5/month (stats and analytics service). I love Reinvigorate and have been using it the past few years but I decided to cancel the premium account and just rely on Google Analytics to cut down on my expenses. I still recommend them and you can get a free account if your monthly traffic is less than 100,000.
Infolinks – added Infolinks, an in-text advertising program as an additional revenue source. Those are the red, double underlined links found throughout the site. Btw, I’d like to know from the regular readers if the Infolinks ads bother you or not. Thanks!
CDN – If you might’ve noticed, the posts, pages and the site as a whole loads faster. That’s because aside from using the W3 Total Cache plugin, JaypeeOnline has been using a CDN (Content Delivery Network) the past few months. I’ll publish a more detailed post about this soon.

If any of you guys have comments, feedback or suggestions to make JaypeeOnline better, please don’t hesitate to share it with me via the comments section or if you want to remain anonymous, you can send me a message via the contact page. Thank you and have a nice day!

Weekend Roundup #121

Jaypee Habaradas — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:33:23 +0000

Hello folks! Hope you’re all having a good weekend so far. Since I’ll be very busy and will be out the whole day tomorrow, I made sure that I prepared and published this week’s edition of Weekend Roundup early and avoid making the same mistake I made the past couple of weeks – late edition of the Weekend Roundup. Hope you enjoy reading the articles and links that I shared.

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