Has anyone else noticed their blog and back links not being up to date on Technorati? Over the last 1 week I have had 3 or 4 different posts as well as a few new blogs linking to mine, yet Technorati still says updated as of “7 Days ago.”

I did email tech support on Thursday, but nothing has come from that accept for the automated response. Maybe it has something to do with their latest release (Version 3).

Because of this I have really been taking advantage of Digg lately.

“Google Inc.’s hosted Web analytics service Google Analytics suffered serious performance problems on Monday and Tuesday, after the Mountain View, California, company announced its decision to offer it for free, but it seems to have stabilized on Wednesday. ” [This is from an Old Post, thanks to Eric for pointing it out]

Source: http://www.pcwelt.de/index.cfm?pid=829&pk=124342
[However, this happpened to me earlier this week]
I have the maximum number of sites (5) set up on my Google account and earlier this week they all showed 0 page views and visits on my executive summary. The stats did show up again the next day. It must be a little tough for Google, assigning millions of dollars worth of resources to a web analytics product that’s completely free, however, last time I checked they had a little bit of money available to them.

“Omniture, Inc. a provider of online business optimization software, revealed the recent purchase of nine patents from IBM related to inventions and technology in the Web analytics, business optimization and behavioral targeting area.”

Source: http://www.tradingmarkets.com/tm.site/news/BREAKING%20NEWS/321863/

This brings Omniture’s total to 136 (patents they own or have access to). It will be interesting to see how Omniture incorporates some of these patents into current technologies such as Sitecatalyst, SearchCenter and Discover. Or maybe they have plans of developing something brand new.

“WebTrends Inc., the market leader for web analytics and Marketing Performance Management (MPM) solutions, today announced that in Q2 2006 the company achieved its highest quarterly results ever for WebTrends(R) web analytics solutions with bookings growth of 30 percent year over year. Customers selecting WebTrends Analytics(TM) 8 On Demand, the hosted version of the company’s flagship solution, fueled most of the growth with year-over-year bookings increasing 78 percent. In addition, tremendous growth in international markets continues to extend WebTrends worldwide market share leadership position with WebTrends EMEA growing 108 percent year over year.”

Full Story:
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060727005217&newsLang=en

Maxsi recently launched a new version of its analytics software: eVisit Analyst.

Besides being the first to market with the Welsh language system, eVisit Analyst also adds many enhancements which includes:

- Full API support for search engine marketing, including popular search engines such as Google
- Reporting across multiple domains
- Analysis reporting
- Outcome Performance Analysis reports to complement enhanced Source Performance
- Multiple language and multiple currency support

source: http://www.itwales.com/997828.htm

eVisit Analyst has quite the extensive list of solutions:

- Select (fully managed and hosted)
- Enterprise (for larger organizations)
- Government (UK local authorities)
- Portal (Application Service Providers)
- Survey
- Performance Monitor (Monitoring Site down time)
- Link Monitor (broken links)
- Ad Server

I hope I get the opportunity to test drive the various products.

A report released by OneStat today shows that the number of 1 word queries on search engines has decreased compared to last year at this time.

This is indicating that users are refining their searches in order to get more specific results. The report also breaks down search share by country.

Read the rest of the report here:
http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_pressbox45-search-phrases.html

A recent survey by WebSideStory shows that FireFox appears to be growing stronger in Europe than it has in the US over the last few of months.

The UK has one of the lowest FireFox user shares in Europe with 8.82%. Microsoft has a 88.78% UK share which is greater than its share in the US.
FireFox is most popular in Germany where its market share is an outstanding: 26.8%

Here are some other Countries’ FireFox Usage Percentages:
France: 14.89%
Italy: 12.46%
Spain: 9.86%

In terms of market share in the US, FireFox is slowing down with only a 0.54% rise in the last 6 months.

Here is a chart showing usage share from the WebSideStory Press Release