Tag Archives: statistics

TechCrunch Does Not Have One Million RSS Readers

Michael Arrington has posted that TechCrunch has reached the 1,000,000 subscriber mark on FeedBurner. First off, congrats to TechCrunch; I have never seen someone hit that milestone before.
I don’t know that they really have one million subscribers, but I do know they have at least one… me.
I use NetNewsWire on my laptop and my phone. [...]

Watching Numbers

I just saw a great byline quote in an article in this months Entrepreneur magazine:

“Numbers that are tracked and watched are numbers that grow.”

Personally I believe a key to successful business is knowing which numbers to track and watch. Then again, I also tend to believe that you can spot most problems in those numbers [...]

Interesting Information About UserAgent Distribution

I was doing some work on the statzen database tonight when I needed to look at the frequency of UserAgent recurrence.
For the less technical readers out there, UserAgent strings are how browsers (or any HTTP clients) identify themselves to web servers. There are only a handful of common browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc). The [...]

The Usefulness of Aggregate Statistics

I love aggregate statistics. Sure, I know this makes me a dweeb, but I am cool with that (and the Harley in my back yard helps my aggregate dweeb score to stay in check).
There is an article on Time.com today that is talking about what an “average American” is. There is a really [...]