This is the second annual Top Ten Website Mistake report from BWI. The information is based on my basic usability and design analysis that I do for my clients. For 2008 see: Top Ten Website Mistakes. Continue reading »
Feb 112010
Aug 032009
You can always find what’s popular on this site right now by visiting this page: Popular Posts. It lists the top blog posts and pages found on this site based on the number of unique page views for them during the current month. Popular Posts is located under Archives in the top menu. Continue reading »
Jul 232009
Forget search. I’m talking traffic. With all the hype about Twitter I believe some are getting a little unrealistic about it. Twitter search better than Google? Heart beat of the world? We will be the first with one billion users? How about, give me a break, Twitter is half way dead.
Let’s look at the traffic, and let’s look what Twitter has to offer. If you do, you will quickly see Twitter is way over rated. Does this mean Google wins the battle though? I don’t think so. There is another, and it does have the heart beat of the world, and the traffic to support my claim. We call it Facebook. Continue reading »
Apr 302009
You can always find what’s popular on this site now by visiting this page: Popular Posts. It lists the top blog posts and pages found on this site based on the number of unique visitors during the current month. Popular Posts is located under Archives in the left menu.
Top Content for April 2009 on Best Web Image
- Twitter Toolbar – Proof the Twitter is growing like crazy. My site is about improving Web Usability and Design. I built a Twitter Toolbar just for fun, make it available for download on this site, and it has taken over! Already over 10,000 downloads.
- Usability and Design Analysis – Ranked actually 3rd, I didn’t include the home page on this list, my usability and design analysis is what most of you are after. You want me to test your site, don’t you?
- Top Ten Website Mistakes – Based on all of the analyses I have done so far in 2009, I’m betting ninety percent of you don’t know how to use a heading tag.
- Language Icons – This one surprised me a little, and I didn’t expect to get as much traffic from it as I have. Avoid some common language icon blunders.
- Web Services and Tools – Three reasons this page traffic has increased. The first, I moved it within my menu to be the second item visited. Testing revealed most visitors clicked it before they clicked the Usability Testing item. The second reason, it has a link to my Twitter Toolbar, and the third reason was the main reason it always got traffic. It has a ton of good resources. You just need to scroll down a little to find them.
- Heading Tag – A How To – This one was no surprise to me. Most people don’t know how, and I get many thanking me for this post.
- Rotating Images – Here is another one that surprised me. A simple example in php on how to rotate images. I guess a lot of people want to know how.
- Usability Testing – I send a lot of traffic this way by telling people about my services, so go figure.
- Test Your Site – This one has got attention fast, ranking 9th after being posted just ten days ago. I did not expect this one to get much traffic either. It was a simply reminder to test your site, and to test it often.
- Tweet Back – This post I ran a long time ago. Many are now thinking about adding Tweet Back to their blog, and are finding this post in the process. I hope they read my follow up of that post Tweet Backs Gone. I stop using the function on this site. Reasoning? It has little or no function.
For this month a total of 431 of my posts and pages were read by two or more visitors.
Jan 052009
Well I told you about the worst, now here are the best, at least intranet wise: Ten Best Intranets of 2009. The report showed usability had been improving overall for intranets, and that the usage of SharePoint was also on the rise.
Now my question is, shouldn’t it be the “Ten Best Intranets of 2008“? I mean, how does he know who had the best sites in 2009 when the year just started?
Dec 292008
It’s almost that time, time to make a new year resolution. I’m sure many of you have set or are currently considering some 2009 resolutions in regards to weight loss, or the usual banning of the common vices like alcohol. Personally, I’m not a big fan of resolutions. I do like to start off the new year with a fresh start though, so what I do is redefine my goals.
Resolutions for Your Websites
Being that this blog is about improving your website, have you set any resolutions for your site? I hope you have a site plan for your website, or at least a general business plan that reviews the details of your website. If you do, this is the time to review it, and redefine it. I check my site plans every month. I actively manage my time and efforts in a written plan because it is the only way I can get anything done. It’s way to easy to get sidetracked working online. Having a few regular processes/resolutions listed within that site plan can also help speed up the way you do things. It can eliminate errors, it can help identify certain methods that could use some improvement, and you will reflect a consistent methodology to your regular readers.
What Are Your Website Resolutions?
So for me, and this site, one of my goals/resolutions, is to write more posts in advanced to produce a more regular output. This post, and my last is an example why. My regulars are used to a post or two almost every day, but because of all this vacation time I haven’t made a post in a week. Yes, I watched my numbers go down.
What are some of your resolutions or goals set for your website? I can guess you want more visitors. Are you planning any other methods besides marketing, like site testing?
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