The web tracking and analysis market is very saturated with some big players like Google and free and open source applications that more than does the job. The fact that people will very rarely switch from one analytics service to another makes it even more difficult to break in to this market.

Or so we thought.

Woopra knows that in order for them to break in to this saturated market they not only have to provide something very unique but actually make watching your web traffic a fun experience. I believe very few, if any, web analytic service can claim that they have made watching stats a pleasant experience, if not cluttered and confusing.

Instead of taking the usual route of making a web-only analytic service, Woopra first started with desktop client and then much later moved in to a web interface also, making it an additional option instead of a primary source of analytic information.
(more…)

When we first sat down to start designing this site we had one priority over everything else. Speed. Not only do we hate slow loading websites, we believe in simplistic designs and are crazy about optimizing websites to the extreme. Though  most of these tips can be applied for any websites, we will be focusing on wordpress tips.

What is a good page loading time?

Before we start optimizing the site we wanted to know what will be a good loading time to aim for. So we tested some of the most popular websites for speed with the help of pingdom tools.

 
With 1.3 sec page loading time SM was the fastest site on a wordpress install. Considering the fact that SM is a high traffic – image heavy site, this number makes it even more impressive. The average speed was just over 5 sec, which was also our target and we thought was a good speed.

(more…)

The fastest browser for windows has been getting some major updates at it gets ported to Linux (& Mac). Chromium is not officially a “Google Chrome” browser, but developed under the wings and support from Google. Chrome is built from Chromium, the distinction is intentionally made perhaps to separate the “Google Chrome” brand.

(more…)

Wubi is a great way to install Linux for windows users in a safe manner. Before Wubi, windows users needed to make a separate partition to install Linux alongside windows on the same computer. Now windows users can run wubi installer which does all the work for you by installing Linux as you would install any application on windows.

The installer itself is a small file which downloads the ISO image of the Linux Desktop environment you want to install. Currently the choices are Ubuntu (Gnome Desktop Environment) Kubuntu (KDE Desktop Environment) Xubuntu (XFCE desktop Environment) and Mythbuntu (MythTV based PVR). By default, wubi looks for the ISO image in the same folder before it connects to the server to download it, so if you already have the latest ISO of the desktop environment you want to install you have to make sure that it is in the same folder.
(more…)

Virtualbox is not only the best virtual machine application out there but it is also free and open source. It runs on every major operating system and can host most OS as guest machines. To get the most out of your virtual machine it is important that your host computer has a decent amount of processing power and large memory to share. This of course depends on the guest OS installation.

If you are going to install a Linux OS as a virtual machine on a Windows Host, you will not need as much memory as you would if you wanted to install a Windows guest on a Linux host or (if you are crazy enough) a windows guest on a windows host. There are many uses of virtual machines from a developers point of view, if you are creating an application that works on many platforms, you would like to test them on as many platforms as possible. Regular users will find virtual machines useful if they want to use an application that only runs on one platform. For instance if you are a Mac OSX user or Linux user, but you are very fond of the windows desktop blogging software like “Widows Live Writer”, which only runs on Windows; you can use a guest windows virtual machine to run this software.

(more…)