http://www.wopsta.org WordPress real-time Visitor Statistics Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:19:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are happy to let you know that we have published our current work to WordPress.org's plug-in directory. You can download and try our current development version  from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wopsta/. Since we are still quite a bit away from having finished our work on a first version that is really stable, we ... http://www.wopsta.org/2009/10/22/wopsta-in-wordpress-orgs-plug-in-directory/ Our survey about web analytics for blogs has now finished. The winner of the prize raffle - a copy (eBook) of April Hodge Silver’s and Hasin Hayder’s WordPress 2.7 Complete - has been notified. We like to say thanks to 93 survey participants! During the next weeks we'll go through the answers ... http://www.wopsta.org/2009/10/04/survey-about-web-analytics-for-blogs-has-finished/ Dear Blog Owner, We are conducting a survey from September 3rd to October 1st 2009 to gain deeper knowledge about how blog owners do web analytics. We attempt to find out what kinds of web analytics solutions are used most and whether the usage of web analytics is related to special blog ... http://www.wopsta.org/2009/09/15/participate-in-our-survey-and-win/ The Internet is built upon HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol). It is a relatively simple protocol that exchanges messages between a ‘client’ and a ‘server’. PHP provides access to these messages in the form of some global variables, e.g. $SERVER['USER_AGENT'] and $SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']. It is these variables that provide web analytics ... http://www.wopsta.org/2009/08/21/the-issue-of-user-agent-and-referrer-translation/ We think it is only appropriate that an open source project should share as much as possible with its community. With this in mind today’s post will be discussing some architecture issues in the design of the wopsta.org plug-in. Although our community is still small we hope that this post ... http://www.wopsta.org/2009/08/17/basic-thoughts-about-wopstas-architecture/ One of our early research goals is to identify differences between a blog's success metrics against metrics used by traditional websites. The identification of previously un-established metrics would give wopsta.org a deeper importance . In part with the variety of blogs and owners on the world wide web there ... http://www.wopsta.org/2009/08/07/typology-of-weblogs/ On those last few days in July a project was born: the wopsta wordpress plugin will be the practical implementation of the forthcoming research report into unique statistical and analytical requirements of today's blogs. Wopsta will in essence show real-time visitor statistics. Considering there are other plugins within the community the ... http://www.wopsta.org/2009/07/31/getting-started/