Online video ad network LiveRail (our profile) has just released a 'State Of The Industry Report' for Q3 2008. It reports that video ad spending currently only represents 2.36% of Continue reading »

The theme for this week must be the erosion of market share for dominant technologies. Earlier, we reported on the Firefox web browser's steady march into Internet Explorer territory, and Continue reading »

Online reputation company Rapleaf sent us some interesting statistics about the most prominent OpenSocial companies, along with Facebook. Rapleaf gathered data on users of MySpace, LinkedIn, Friendster, Plaxo, and Hi5 Continue reading »

Our network blog AltSearchEngines reports that Google has around 90% search engine market share in France (well, 89.98% to be exact!). The next biggest is Yahoo ! (3.17%), followed by Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Innovative_Web_Analytics_Tools'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; When most people think of free web analytics, they immediately think of Google Analytics. But there are many other free, Continue reading »

An AP report today states that Nielsen/NetRatings, one of the leading Internet stats services, will "scrap rankings" based on page views and replace it with how long visitors spend at Continue reading »

In an attempt to go beyond page views and visits, today web stats company Compete introduced "Attention metrics". The reason is that interactive Web page technologies such as Ajax and Continue reading »

By Alex Iskold Last week Apple's iPhone made a stunning debut. There are very few people who were not blown away by what Steve Jobs showed to the world, from Continue reading »

YouTube continues to grow and on current Alexa figures, the online video site is now ranked number 4 web site in the world - behind only Yahoo, MSN and Google Continue reading »

As we all know, web statistics are an unreliable thing at the best of times. I posted on this issue back in March 2006, noting that Urchin and web server