Posts tagged Reports
Writing Better PPC Reports
Apr 4th
Reporting the performance of your PPC campaigns to your stakeholders is a vital task, but it’s not time spent improving performance. Learn how to keep your reporting brief but helpful by focusing on key factors and employing some dos and don’ts.
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Google Account Activity Offers Monthly Reports of Your Google Usage
Mar 29th
Users who sign up to Google’s new Account Activity tool will get monthly reports on the number of emails sent and received to their Gmail accounts, the number of searches they conduct, and even the most frequent queries they have submitted.
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Syrian Expatriates Organization Reports that Syria’s Ancient Sites and … – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Mar 28th
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Syrian Expatriates Organization Reports that Syria's Ancient Sites and …
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) The Syrian Expatriates Organization (SEO) is disturbed by the Assad regime's deliberate destruction and failure to preserve Syria's great archaeological sites and ancient antiquities. Syria (PRWEB) March 28, 2012 Syria's Ancient Sites and Antiquities … |
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Google Analytics Tracking 400+ Websites for New Social Reports
Mar 20th
The new Social Reports in Google Analytics compile and analyze social activity data from more than 400 social services, with advanced tracking of their Social Data Hub partner sites. See which sites are in, and which have opted out, to date.
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New Google Analytics Social Reports: Measure SMM Value, View Streams
Mar 20th
Google’s new suite of Social reports within their Analytics platform launches tomorrow. Among the new features, users can compare last-click to assisted conversions, see Social Visitors Flow, view select social streams in Analytics, and more.
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Reports Raise Questions About Who Has Access To Your Facebook Profile
Mar 5th
Gawker started a row against Facebook last month by pointing out some of the moderators it outsources work to in Morocco, India and other countries are paid $1 per day.
As Forbes points out, Gawker initially made a non-story into a story: while $1 per day is not great, it does amount to the standard minimum wage in the countries where Facebook is sending work. “One of the problems is that many people don’t quite understand how poor many parts of the world are,” Tim Worstall wrote for the magazine.
The bigger problem for Facebook users, as noted by the Independent, may be what information those moderators can access.
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The moderators are charged with dealing with user complaints about content: everything from the use of copyrighted material without permission to offensive images or other content that violates Facebook’s user agreements. When Gawker first raised the charges, Facebook responded by saying in a statement “No user information beyond the content in question and the source of the report is shared.”
That, according to the Independent, is not true. The newspaper claims to have viewed information showing that moderators “are clearly able to see the names of the person who uploaded the ‘offensive’ content, the subject of the image or person tagged in a photo – in addition to the person who has reported the content.”
We’ve asked Facebook to respond to the Independent’s claims and will update as soon as we hear back from them.
The newspaper also notes there is nothing preventing moderators from taking screen shots of the offensive content. One former moderator showed the Independent material he had viewed and saved, and said he later went and looked up more information about those people.
“Some of the photos that people post, which under Facebook’s rules may be deemed inappropriate, such as your children running around naked or a mum breastfeeding, could still end up on the open internet, if a moderator, who is able to copy the images, publishes them,” Graham Cluley, of the British internet security firm Sophos, said.
Creepy? Of course. But not all that surprising. Many regular users of the Internet understand, at least in theory, the idea that what you post online can eventually end up in the hands of someone you don’t want it to. But many still have not adopted practices to protect against that, seemingly taking an approach that believes that kind of thing only happens to other people.
The Independent goes on to line up the same row of security experts who, predictably, make the same demands for Facebook to overhaul its moderation system. Those are great sentiments, but not likely outcomes, as doing so would incur costs ahead of the company’s initial public offering. The security experts should be stressing to Facebook users their need to overhaul their own online practices.
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Google Analytics Update to Organic Reports
Feb 10th
As many of you know, organic traffic is auto-populated in Google Analytics reports using a default search engine list curated by Google. It is also possible to add smaller search engines manually into the tracking code snippet, using the _addOrganic method; but it’s nicer when Google does it…
Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
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Algonquin Studios Shares Thought Leadership Reports on Web Design, SEO … – PR Web (press release)
Feb 7th
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Algonquin Studios Shares Thought Leadership Reports on Web Design, SEO …
PR Web (press release) Covering topics including web site design, SEO myths, and advantages associated with using a content management system, the reports are now available for download on Algonquin's corporate web site. Algonquin began a company blog in September 2011 and … |
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Amazon S3 Reports Staggering Growth in 2011
Jan 30th
Amazon Web Services just reported jaw-dropping growth in the number of objects stored in Amazon S3 year over year.
“As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion (762,000,000,000) objects in Amazon S3. We process over 500,000 requests per second for these objects at peak times,” AWS Evangelist Jeff Bar wrote on the company’s blog tonight. The company reported 262 billion objects in storage in Q4 of 2010. “This represents year-over-year growth of 192%; S3 grew faster last year than it did in any year since it launched in 2006.” Independent analysts say this is indicative of the growth of the cloud in general and of Amazon’s striking dominance of the market.
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“Stunning, isn’t it?” Randy Bias, co-founder of Cloudscaling said to me about the news by email. “From 150% to almost 200% growth. That’s crazy. 500,000 requests per second at peak. Blows my mind.”
Bias says these are the big take-aways.
“S3 growth is accelerating, not just increasing. If other AWS services are accelerating similarly then we will see a major shift this year in AWS usage and likely revenue reporting in SEC filings.
“This is the largest storage system in the world bar none; there isn’t anything like it anywhere else that I’m aware of unless it’s some secret government/NSA vault.
“Check my math, but at 1Kbyte average per object, that would be 780PB of disk storage:
- 762,000,000,000 * 1024 (traditional KB)
- 780288000000000 / 1000 (KB for disk) / 1000 (MB for disk) / 1000 (GB for disk) / 1000 (PB for disk) [ disk capacity is in even 1,000 increments, not multiples of 2 ]
- That’s 780PB, but unclear if that’s replicated or unreplicated; probably replicated, which means 260PB of data with 3x replication.
- Average of 1Kbyte is probably too low.
- At 100TB per storage system that is 7,222 storage *servers*, each with 36 spindles at 3TB each; that might not be their configuration, but even if it’s 2 or 3 times as dense, that is a *lot* of storage servers.
- At those numbers, it’s a 26M/month business and a 300M/year run rate, which means it’s still roughly 30% of AWS revenue with EC2 being most of the rest.“I don’t understand how people can’t see this kind of thing and just have their jaw hit the floor. People are paying for this. At this rate they will have 2 TRILLION objects in another year and it will be a $600M/year business.”
What’s behind such numbers? Widespread technology change.
“What we are seeing is the geometric explosion of cloud growth from multiple points,” Constellation Research analyst Ray Wang told ReadWriteWeb.
“First, broad based adoption driven by consumerization of IT. Second, the shift from transaction to engagement – we have social, mobile, analytical, and other unstructured data. Third, true elasticity has come to fruition as the promise of the cloud gets delivered. People are taking to the cloud because the tools are easy to use and they don’t have time or money to provision expensive servers. Instead they are using elasticity, which was the original premise of AWS. We could see it happening last year but this leap in growth is tremendous.”
Dave Linthicum, CTO and Founder of Blue Mountain Labs, says Amazon’s dominance is clear. “The rapid growth of AWS S3 is pretty much in-line with what I’m seeing in enterprises adopting cloud computing. The reality is that they are the 800 pound gorilla, and continue to gain weight. Unless they do something stupid, they are the storage provider to beat.”
Ray Wang concurs. “There are only a few companies in the world who can compete with Amazon,” he told me by IM tonight.
“It has established itself as one of the leading contenders. The barriers of entry are high. Very few folks can afford to build the data centers, the software infrastructure, and momentum to be profitable. Amazon is in the same league as Google, Microsoft, IBM, etc. The only other folks that could do it if they woke up are the telco’s – but we’ve all been telling them that for years. They haven’t paid attention.”
Amazon’s Barr explains the growth thusly. “Although we definitely made it easier for you to delete objects using Multi-Object Deletion and Object Expiration, we also gave you plenty of ways to upload new objects using Multipart upload, AWS Direct Connect, and AWS Import/Export,” he wrote in his blog post. He concluded by noting that running a system so complex is hard work and pointed to open jobs at AWS.
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Amazon S3 Reports Record Breaking Growth
Jan 30th
Amazon Web Services just reported jaw-dropping growth in the number of objects stored in Amazon S3 year over year.
“As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion (762,000,000,000) objects in Amazon S3. We process over 500,000 requests per second for these objects at peak times,” AWS Evangelist Jeff Bar wrote on the company’s blog tonight. The company reported 262 billion objects in storage in Q4 of 2010. “This represents year-over-year growth of 192%; S3 grew faster last year than it did in any year since it launched in 2006.” Independent analysts say this is indicative of the growth of the cloud in general and of Amazon’s striking dominance of the market.
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“Stunning, isn’t it?” Randy Bias, co-founder of Cloudscaling said to me about the news by email. “From 150% to almost 200% growth. That’s crazy. 500,000 requests per second at peak. Blows my mind.”
Bias says these are the big take-aways.
“S3 growth is accelerating, not just increasing. If other AWS services are accelerating similarly then we will see a major shift this year in AWS usage and likely revenue reporting in SEC filings.
“This is the largest storage system in the world bar none; there isn’t anything like it anywhere else that I’m aware of unless it’s some secret government/NSA vault.
“Check my math, but at 1Kbyte average per object, that would be 780PB of disk storage:
- 762,000,000,000 * 1024 (traditional KB)
- 780288000000000 / 1000 (KB for disk) / 1000 (MB for disk) / 1000 (GB for disk) / 1000 (PB for disk) [ disk capacity is in even 1,000 increments, not multiples of 2 ]
- That’s 780PB, but unclear if that’s replicated or unreplicated; probably replicated, which means 260PB of data with 3x replication.
- Average of 1Kbyte is probably too low.
- At 100TB per storage system that is 7,222 storage *servers*, each with 36 spindles at 3TB each; that might not be their configuration, but even if it’s 2 or 3 times as dense, that is a *lot* of storage servers.
- At those numbers, it’s a 26M/month business and a 300M/year run rate, which means it’s still roughly 30% of AWS revenue with EC2 being most of the rest.“I don’t understand how people can’t see this kind of thing and just have their jaw hit the floor. People are paying for this. At this rate they will have 2 TRILLION objects in another year and it will be a $600M/year business.”
What’s behind such numbers? Widespread technology change.
“What we are seeing is the geometric explosion of cloud growth from multiple points,” Constellation Research analyst Ray Wang told ReadWriteWeb.
“First, broad based adoption driven by consumerization of IT. Second, the shift from transaction to engagement – we have social, mobile, analytical, and other unstructured data. Third, true elasticity has come to fruition as the promise of the cloud gets delivered. People are taking to the cloud because the tools are easy to use and they don’t have time or money to provision expensive servers. Instead they are using elasticity, which was the original premise of AWS. We could see it happening last year but this leap in growth is tremendous.”
Dave Linthicum, CTO and Founder of Blue Mountain Labs, says Amazon’s dominance is clear. “The rapid growth of AWS S3 is pretty much in-line with what I’m seeing in enterprises adopting cloud computing. The reality is that they are the 800 pound gorilla, and continue to gain weight. Unless they do something stupid, they are the storage provider to beat.”
Ray Wang concurs. “There are only a few companies in the world who can compete with Amazon,” he told me by IM tonight.
“It has established itself as one of the leading contenders. The barriers of entry are high. Very few folks can afford to build the data centers, the software infrastructure, and momentum to be profitable. Amazon is in the same league as Google, Microsoft, IBM, etc. The only other folks that could do it if they woke up are the telco’s – but we’ve all been telling them that for years. They haven’t paid attention.”
Amazon’s Barr explains the growth thusly. “Although we definitely made it easier for you to delete objects using Multi-Object Deletion and Object Expiration, we also gave you plenty of ways to upload new objects using Multipart upload, AWS Direct Connect, and AWS Import/Export,” he wrote in his blog post. He concluded by noting that running a system so complex is hard work and pointed to open jobs at AWS.
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