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W3Counter WordPress Plugin Updated

December 16, 2009

W3Counter’s official WordPress plugin has gotten a much needed rewrite for WordPress 2.8+. You can now view your blog’s web stats within your wp-admin dashboard and add the tracking code to any sidebar as a widget.

Delicious: Proof that Symfony is a scalable framework

August 3, 2008

Back almost a year ago, top social bookmarking site del.icio.us, now just delicious, launched a preview of its version 2.0. At the time they announced it was built on the Symfony PHP framework, what I used for W3Counter. With almost a year going by, and rumors of scaling issues, I worried that perhaps Symfony wasn’t [...]

The Website Revenue Maximizer Kit

July 20, 2008

I’m a little late mentioning it, but I was an expert reviewer for SitePoint’s latest kit, the Website Revenue Maximizer.
I got my name in the credits, a mention and screenshot of W3Counter in the appendix, and a few other bonuses for myself. It’s a huge binder and CD with information, forms and reference for [...]

W3Counter Grows Again

July 17, 2008

It’s been about 7 months since W3Counter’s last hardware upgrade, adding a beefy dual-processor dual-core server to the mix. Now, 6,000 new active accounts later, the site’s slowing down during the day again, which means there’s not enough memory and IO bandwidth to go around. I just ordered two more powerful servers from SoftLayer. One [...]

FeedBurner Stops Reporting Reach

April 14, 2008

It looks like FeedBurner’s API has moved in with Google at Google Code. Without an e-mail or a blog post, they made a few changes that broke W3Counter’s slurping of feed stats. Notably, they are no longer reporting the “reach” metric for some feeds, and it’s disappeared from the API reference… perhaps it was harder [...]

Blog Stats Plugin for WordPress

April 9, 2008

In addition to a visual overhaul, WordPress 2.5 added several new plugin hooks, including a widgetized dashboard. The new Blog Stats Plugin for WordPress adds blog stats to the dashboard, and makes integrating the tracking code into a theme simple.
It’s also the first use of W3Counter’s “visitor labeling” I previewed in October (spooky visitor [...]

W3Counter Updated Thanks to CNET

April 3, 2008

Some time this morning someone submitted W3Counter’s Global Stats report to Digg with a headline about the increase in Linux market share. The story crossed the threshold for a front page listing but was auto-buried… perhaps because that page has already been on the front page at least 4 times this year.
A CNET blogger wrote [...]

AJAX Live-Updating Google Map

February 20, 2008

A new report I’m considering adding to W3Counter is a “Live Map” — a Google map that shows visitors arriving to your website in real-time. It updates every 3 seconds with an AJAX call, instantly recenting the map on each new visitor and popping up their information. I’ve had fun staring at it for half [...]

Another W3Counter Widget Test

January 24, 2008

Multiple Applications, One Code Base

January 12, 2008

With room to grow once again, I’ve been working on the other features I planned for W3Counter back in the fall. The main task, which I hope will allow me to sell to bigger customers than my normal $5/month individual webmaster, is providing private instances of the entire service. The plan is to have three [...]