live website creation and promotion

I’m going to write two small helper projects soon. It seems that I don’t have another choice.

One is statistics tracker - I don’t need the fancy numbers, “browser wars”, “OS wars”, screen resolutions data - all this can be checked at any big site statistics, or even at NetCraft - those numbers don’t make any sense per-site, they are global. What I really need is number of visitors (daily, monthly), returned visitors, number of people who performed specific actions daily (saw tag clouds, used send-to-friend feature, etc), number of RSS readers daily (but not readers version counters), ability to see those numbers as charts, compare how they corellate. And visitor paths - to see where people stuck on site. Those are features needed to improve sites’ usability (Plus - I already track referrers in code + check search engine queries).

Another one is translations management. I’m adding new features and new languages (and new sites too), and it’s becoming very annoying to maintain all translations for all sites. I promised such project to eMule Plus team a long time ago and didn’t fulfill my promise yet. Maybe that’s the good time to do it.

P.S. Those two projects have a good chance to become open-sourced when I finish them.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 at 09:33 and is filed under website creation , website promotion , statistics , stats , translations . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.