Checkout best practice revisited
Jun2011
It’s been over two years since I published an article on the Econsultancy blog entitled: Are retailers following best practice to improve conversion rates? In that article I was specifically looking at the checkout processes of a variety of retailers, and in particular whether or not they have enclosed (or in other words removed site wide elements [...]
When’s the best time to publish blog posts?
May2011
Of all the data analysis that I’ve done, day-of-week and time-of-day data has been consistently the most popular. So in preparation for my upcoming webinar, titled Science of Blogging, I decided to combine all of my existing data on timing with my new research into one master post on the subject. The first time I [...]
The top websites blocked by businesses in 2010 ranked by OpenDNS
Apr2011
Can you guess which is the most blocked website? View the top ten By Dean Praetorius for The Huffington Post Technology, January 26, 2011
World statistics updated in real time
Mar2011
Worldometers is part of the Real Time Statistics Project, which is managed by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around the world. Chief project coordinator is currently Sir Thomasson. Visit site
The 15 most important women in tech history
Mar2011
Do a quick Google News search for “women in technology” and your results are sure to be bemoaning the lack of female bodies in the industry (or maybe just results for that White Town album). Last year both the NYT and the WSJ had articles related to the topic – and published within a few [...]
nma research uncovers kids’ digital habits
Mar2011
The internet is more important to 8-15-year-olds than either TV or mobile phones, with children saying they’d be lost without the web, according to exclusive research from new media age. In a online survey of 262 children by Lightspeed Research, commissioned by new media age, 29.8% said the internet was more crucial to their lives than [...]
What do customers want from travel websites
Feb2011
53% of UK consumers research and buy holidays online, though many could be deterred by unclear pricing, according to a survey commissioned by Econsultancy. The Toluna survey of 2,004 UK consumers found that 29% of respondents don’t find travel websites easy to use, and that unclear pricing is the most likely reason for abandoning purchases [...]
10 Bad Habits That Are Costing You Clients
Jan2011
It’s surprisingly easy to be a remarkable freelancer, to stand head and shoulders above the increasingly growing number of the self-employed. All you have to do is to behave professionally and produce outstanding work. Sadly, many freelancers have bad habits, which prevent prospects from hiring them, and send existing clients away to other freelancers. Read [...]
The Educational Benefit of Ugly Fonts
Jan2011
A few months ago, I wrote a speculative blog post about e-readers. Although I love my Kindle, I worried that these new gadgets made the act of reading a little bit too easy, and that this visual ease might lead, one day, to a shallower engagement with our texts. It was a rather tortured argument, [...]
Head JS Script Loader
Jan2011
With Head JS your scripts load like images – completely separated from the page rendering process. The page is ready sooner. Always. This is guaranteed even with a single combined JavaScript file. See it yourself: Read More