Nielsen/NetRatings are changing the metric they use to rank web sites - it is the time visitors spend on web sites. Page views are being dropped because they betray the new technologies like AJAX. This surely shuffles the merit list of the top web sites. [Continue]
As a eXtreme Programming follower, I like reviews, especially the peer-to-peer reviews. In fact, as a software engineer I think reviews are necessary. Reviews help in bringing attention to faults before they go into the testing when the effort can get magnified. [Continue]
Steve Rubel brings up the topic of the death of page views, and its impact on the advertising business. Evan Williams had brought on this to the table earlier. Advertising essentially is dependent on such metrics, first to measure quality of the website and then to record advertising statistics. [Continue]
This is something that is very difficult to convince the business heads. Deborah Hartmann discusses Ken Schwaber’s presentation - The Canary in the Coalmine. Ken has been able to highlight code quality as an executive decision, or as a corporate asset. [Continue]
Gavin Clarke reports that open source software is still growing. The community is choosing the proprietary better polished rivals. When it comes to software, “quality” seems to be winning over “free” if Evans Data Corp’s latest sampling of the development community’s pulse is anything to go by. [Continue]
Metrics, numbers, hits, page views and clicks are what we seek! Especially when we are trying to measure the success of a website. The statistics have become a craze in the blogosphere. [Continue]