South African women, cats and stats

Posted on August 8th, 2008 by Richard Catto 1,572 views

12% of all South African women have at least one cat.

23% of all divorced South African women have at least one cat.

Therefore if you are a South African woman AND you have a cat, you more likely to be divorced.

Why is this?

Because most South African men prefer dogs.

So?

So put a South African man and a South African woman together and guess what happens?

The South African man’s dog eats the South African woman’s cat.

Which makes her mad.

So what does she do?

She divorces the guy.

And buys another cat.

Tags: cats, dogs, South African men, South African women, Stats
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Real time Blog Stats with Woopra

Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Richard Catto 1,562 views

There are now innumerable ways to collect stats for any type of web site. Bloggers tend to be fanatical about checking their stats to see what’s happening and competing with themselves to continually raise the bar.

Most stats packages take time to deliver the information. Google Analytics, for instance, takes 24 – 48 hours to update your web site’s stats.

Bloggers want that information NOW, if possible, and now there is one stats package which stands out above the rest: WOOPRA.

Woopra gives Real Time Stats. As you watch the Java based console, so you see the visitors come and go. Woopra tells you how many you have viewing your site right now, who they are, where they came from and what country they are in. You can see what pages they open, how long they keep it open, and if you like, you can even initiate a real time chat with them.

If they comment on your blog, then their Woopra session will be tagged with the name they used. You can even choose to tag visitors yourself, to more easily keep track of who they are.

Woopra installs on your blog via a WordPress plugin (or javascript for other types of blogs). To view the stats you need to download the Woopra console which is written in Java, and thus requires you to install Java on your machine.

Once that is accomplished, you need to sign up for an account on Woopra’s site and add the sites you wish to track. Sites are manually approved within a few hours.

So far it seems to be an interesting new toy. If you’re a stats fanatic, I’d recommend you give it a try.

Tags: Blog stats, google analytics, Real Time Stats, Stats, Woopra
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View this site’s statistics

Posted on November 9th, 2007 by Richard Catto 1,356 views

If you are interested in advertising on this web site (or you are just curious) you may want to see some stats on this site to aid your decision.

I collect stats in a number of stats packages, two of which are WordPress Stats and Google Analytics. Both of these packages allow me to share them with others. So if you would like me to grant you access to see the stats, please follow these instructions:

To view my WordPress Stats:

Sign up with wordpress.com. You need not create a blog, just get an account with them. Email me the email address you used to sign up with them. I will then send you an invite to view my WordPress Stats.

To view my Google Analytics Stats:

Please email me your gmail address and I will add you to my analytics viewers.

If you have any questions about this, use the Contact form on this blog to send me a message.

Tags: google analytics, Statistics, Stats
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