#web-analytics

#web-analytics

For a brief moment in October, Alejandro Quintero thought he had made it big in China. The Bogotá-based data analyst owns and manages a website that publishes articles about paranormal activities, like ghosts and aliens. The content is written in "Spanglish," he says, and was never intended for an Asian audience. But last fall, Quintero's site suddenly began receiving a large volume of visits from China and Singapore.

iOS 26 adoption isn't as bad as reported earlier. Not that it's great. Apple's attempt to keep online advertisers from tracking Safari users had the unintended effect of completely throwing off reporting on iOS 26 adoption. Rather than only a small percentage of iPhone users installing some version of Apple's latest operating system, iOS 26 adoption is only a bit below average.

My news feed was absolutely overwhelmed this week with headlines telling me that Windows 7's market share "skyrocketed" last month, as users just said no to Windows 11. Then I realized it's the first of the month and of course all those stories are appearing because Statcounter Global Stats just released its "market share" reports for the previous month. Tech reporters cannot resist charts like this one any more than Mr. Bigglesworth can say no to a bag of fresh catnip.

"...total organic click volume from Google Search to websites has been relatively stable year-over-year."

To accurately assign session IDs based on user activity, we need to understand the time difference between consecutive actions. If the difference exceeds 30 minutes, a new session starts.

Last week I started off with a post from Todd Sharp so why not do it again? Todd wrote up his experience using Momento Topics API and Nixie Tubes.