Archive for the 'Internet' Category

Google Trends - Someone Was Listening

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

Google Trends is what I had in mind when I mentioned monetizing traffic data previously. The graph at the right shows the searches for Bean Dip during the last quarter of 2005. The spike it shows at the end of the year is similar to the spike in traffic data shown in my own […]

Page Rank Tool

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

This Page Rank Reporting tool (aka: Page Rank Bean Counter) checks the Google page rank of several urls at once and gives you the option of displaying the results in .CSV format.
I wrote the script myself using a slightly modified version of the PHP pagerank script that’s been floating around the internet. […]

Traffic Data As An Asset

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Traffic data is an unmonetized asset of the Internet. This graph represents the web traffic on MagicBeanDip over the New Years holiday. The red line represents the average traffic over the past month.
Why Google should care about bean dip
As you can see, there’s a relatively large spike on New Years Eve. […]

Including Link Vault from SSI

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

When I wrote my previous post about Including Link Vault from Languages other than PHP, I wasn’t aware of a special quirk about Server Side Includes(SSI).
The #include virtual SSI element can be used to include the results of a program executed via a CGI interface. In this case, we use a PHP […]

Standards Compliant Solution for 302 Web Page Hijacking

Monday, May 30th, 2005

The HTTP Content-Location header is a standards compliant solution for the 302 web page hijacking problem. Depending on how it’s evaluated, it can be effective as either an HTTP header, or as an HTML meta tag. If two different locations provide conflicting Content-Location data, then priority should be given to the information that […]

Improved phpWebsite speed with cache_page module

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

After using the the cache_page module for over a week on the City of Rolfe website, I new it was faster, but hadn’t done suitable testing to find out how much faster. When I finally took the time for testing, I was quite pleased with the result. Under normal server load, pages served from […]