Google Analytics Premium, realtime JS compression, and more – The Monday October 3rd Roundup
We’re firmly in fall and you can tell by how much/better blog content is going online across the web. This week we have posts on compressing javascript on the fly, the time it takes to build a website, the danger of outgoing links, exit rates, UX testing, and of course Google Analytics Premium. What a roundup.
Mihm has a great post on how Google is going before the senate antitrust committee soon. I agree with a lot of what Mihm says, especially when it comes down to the fact that Google really does give a lot of options to allow people to opt out of providing Google with search content. However, as should be expected, if you do this you are sacrificing a great source of traffic.
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Last week Google announced Real-Time analytics for Google Analytics, and Justin Cutroni (full disclosure, Cardinal Path’s director of Digital Intelligence) has a great post on it.
Some have compared him to the Dalai Lama, others to Kublai Kahn. When he isn't teaching third world children how to purify water with nothing more than a plastic bottle and a garden hose, he is creating mad waves for surfers off the west coast with little more than a paddle. Some say there is a boat involved, others that he walks on water.
Little is known about his background. he appeared from nowhere 15 years ago and claims heritage from a land with neither want not need. He makes little comment, stating only that it was a pretty cool place.
Fire does not burn him, cold does not hurt him. Words could... but they don't. When he passes, pedals fall off branches. When he speaks, hair tugs at skin, pulling just slightly in his direction.
He does not sleep but he does dream. He has muscled his way into the lives of the famous and whispered his way into their hearts. And in the wee hours he plays oboe softly, as if to sooth the night to sleep.