Web Analytics

Web Analytics: An Hour a Day

Todd Hoff

Jul 15, 2007 — 1 min read

Web Analytics: An Hour A Day is the first book by an in-the-trenches practitioner of web analytics. It provides a unique insider’s perspective of the challenges and opportunities that web analytics presents to each person who touches the Web in your organization. Rather than spamming you with metrics and definitions, Web Analytics: An Hour A Day will enhance your mindset and teach you how to fish for yourself.

Avinash Kaushik is a expert in web analytics and author of the top-rated blog Occam’s Razor (http://www.kaushik.net/avinash). In this book, he goes beyond web analytics concepts and definitions to provide a step-by-step guide to implementing a successful web analytics strategy. His revolutionary approach to web analytics challenges prevalent thinking about the field and guides readers to a solution that will provide truly informed and actionable insights.

Capturing A Billion Emo(j)i-ons

This blog post was written by Dedeepya Bonthu. This is a repost from her Medium article, approved by the author. In stadiums, sports fans love to express themselves by cheering for their favorite teams, holding up placards and team logos. Emoji’s allow fans at home to rapidly express themselves,

Brief History of Scaling Uber

This blog post was written by Josh Clemm, Senior Director of Engineering at Uber Eats. This is a repost from his LinkedIn article, approved by the author. On a cold evening in Paris in 2008, Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp couldn't get a cab. That's when

Behind AWS S3’s Massive Scale

This is a guest article by Stanislav Kozlovski, an Apache Kafka Committer. If you would like to connect with Stanislav, you can do so on Twitter and LinkedIn. AWS S3 is a service every engineer is familiar with. It’s the service that popularized the notion of cold-storage to the

The Swedbank Outage shows that Change Controls don't work

This week I’ve been reading through the recent judgment from the Swedish FSA on the Swedbank outage. If you’re unfamiliar with this story, Swedbank had a major outage in April 2022 that was caused by an unapproved change to their IT systems. It temporarily left nearly a million

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Capturing A Billion Emo(j)i-ons

Brief History of Scaling Uber

Behind AWS S3’s Massive Scale

The Swedbank Outage shows that Change Controls don't work