Posts categorized W3Counter
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 [...]
Like every year since spinning off W3Counter from Website Goodies in 2004, it’s exceeded its hardware capacity once again in December. Initially the service shared a Celeron 2.4/512MB server with all of my websites. It then grew into its own Pentium 4 3.0GHz/1GB server, then into a 2-processor 4-core Opteron/4GB setup. This time it’s outgrown [...]
More stress testing the VPS with scripts since nobody’s volunteered a real site. Just running a couple scripts continually downloading the tracker image from the VPS, it seems to be handling 2000-3000 queries per second on the database while extremely responsive. Either something’s wrong or I underestimated just how little resources you need when you [...]
…so I’m doing it myself again. I thought about holding a design contest, but that didn’t work last time I tried it. I don’t know if someone will get the details right from rough mockups, and details bug me. W3Counter tells me less than 4% of visitors to the site have screens less than 1024 [...]
The VPS is handling artificial load well. Now I need a real test, but I don’t have any sites getting nearly enough page views to see if the VPS will slow down with more realistic data. Anyone want to volunteer their high traffic site for a day?
I’ve had a number of people come to me looking for a W3Counter plan that can handle more than the “Pro” plan. More websites, more pageviews, or sometimes both. If people are knocking on the door asking to buy, I need to figure out a way to sell what they want. I decided against letting [...]
I just wrapped up testing the second revision W3Counter pWidget, the overlay that brings web stats right to your webpage, including W3Counter’s color-coded click overlay. It puts no extra burden on the webpage except a simple key listener until it’s activated by the user, loads data modularly on demand, and is completely cross-browser compatible (dragging [...]
Hi Sara, Brian and Zach. This “visitor labeling” feature I’ve been working on is kinda spooky, isn’t it?
I’m still working on the widgets for W3Counter. I’ve have too many other things that need attention recently to bring anything to finished form, but at least I have 6 of the 8 planned widgets working and in testing. You’ve already seen pWidget, the page stats overlay. Here are a couple more:
