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Analytics showcase – lab-au.com

[ Warning: this is a shamelessly bragging post about website optimisation. But it's also a good insight into how to actually analyse your traffic statistics, based on bounce rate, average time on site, and returning visitors ]

After about one year after launching LAb[au]’s website redesign, here is an excerpt from Google Analytics:

0,91% bounce rate

The bounce rate describes the proportion of users whose next action after landing on your website is… to leave it – hence the “bounce” metaphor. That means the lower is the better.

I’ve never seen such a low bounce rate: it means most people that land on the homepage interact with it.  (Ok, I’m hearing the skeptics among us who will probably state that it’s because you actually need to click to  get to some content. Before you complain about “mystery meat” navigation, just understand this: web designers and developers are not LAb[au]’s target audience; we are reaching out to actors on the art, architecture scene, curators, public and private institutions, etc… which are used to – and expect  – creativity, out-of-the box thinking,  daring, clear cut identity profiles. Anyway.)

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52324 outstanding ways of increasing your site conversion rate

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A technique to find keywords associated to a website [ SEO ]

Foraging through the website statistics for lisapram.com, I just discovered that the website recently got a lot of love from social bookmarking service delicio.us .

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php: force download script + convert url to localpath

For a “force download script” to which i send as variable a full URL, i needed to convert this url into the local path, so that the system can check whether the file exists or not, and then read it to output with the correct mimetype.

Here is what i came up with. It seems simple but i couldn’t find such an easy way anywhere on the web so here is my modest contribution to a better (documented) world .

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javascript: Loading external urls in jqModal jquery plugin

I was introduced two years ago to the jQuery javascript library via the thickbox script which, among other things, allows to load external urls inside a modal window, a neat feature enhancing user experience as it provides a more visual continuity between the current window and the next.

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