Dan Grossman

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W3Counter’s Global Stats page is on the Digg.com home page for its 4th time in the past year. I wonder if it’ll make it to the Diggnation podcast a second time? It’s a shame I don’t run CPM ads since every time this happens I end up with something like 200,000 extra page views over [...]

Continuing my trend of not taking any of the advice given, coming up with a new option instead, I don’t plan to pick any of the choices I laid out for monetizing W3Counter. Missing from that list is what I am going to do instead — add more value to the paid accounts so that [...]

More and more users are signing up every day. Traffic is consistently higher than it’s ever been. Nobody’s upgrading their accounts. I can’t blame the 1% rule for freemium businesses here; that wasn’t far from the actual upgrade rate previously, but since the new release, I’m not seeing even 1%. I can likely conclude that [...]

I started writing this as a response to Josh’s comment on my last post, but it’s getting long enough to warrant a new post and, if anyone’s interested, some discussion in the comments here. Dan, quick question about the new pricing… is the page views limit new? I was planning to upgrade to a paid [...]

Can anyone recommend a Linux program that can produce graphs of CPU usage on a server? I could always write something that runs “uptime” every few minutes and logs the values, then produces some graphs, but I assume someone must’ve made something like this before, and I’d rather not duplicate the effort. I’d like to [...]

I was days away from signing up for a new payment gateway, maybe a new merchant account to get access to it, for a recurring payment API. The credit card subscriptions for W3Counter are a mess because it’s all done manually — Authorize.net didn’t have an API for their recurring billing feature, and I wasn’t [...]

Step-by-step: From notes to working screen. The first draft of the new dashboard — the first report shown when viewing a site’s stats in W3Counter 4.

I try to decide what reports W3Counter should include and how they should be presented by formulating questions a website owner might pose about their visitors. W3Counter now answers two new questions I often ask about my own sites — “Who’s started linking to me today?” and “What new searches am I showing up for [...]

Two of the new reports I hope to provide with the new W3Counter are whether a site’s visitors have Flash and Java installed. Since different browsers, and different versions of browsers, make plugin information available in different ways, this is proving more challenging than expected. I have a first attempt at detection of Flash and [...]