Do you look at your statistics? Analyzing your website statistics gives you valuable information on where to put focus on your site. Duration of stay (how long to people stay on your site) shows whether they are finding the content relevant to them. This is an ideal measure.

Some interesting history:

• First domain registration: 1997
• First website built: 1998, SmokinCaddy.com for a line of golf cigars.
• First aftermarket sale: 2000, sold the site Pfiles.com, an enlargement site for $5,000.
• First aftermarket domain sale: 2000, sold AdultSearch.com for $15,000.
• First BIG purchase: HappyBirthday.com for $20,001

Domain name appraisals exist nowadays, public auctions and live auctions exist for domain names.

The effects of iPad and iPhone are being seen in Internet Search. All search is down 16% over a year ago as mobile and other apps become a significant tool for navigating the web. US searches totaled 10.5 billion in July 2009 are down to 8.8 billion this past July.

Significant trend: in the past year, only Bing has seen an increase (28%) in total searches, no surprise as Microsoft is pushing hard with Bing and it is the realtive newcomer on the block.

Read the entire report: http://blog.nielsen.com/...

Browser Popularity

Browser popularity is intriguing, and also very relevant in web design. Look at the statistics in the image below from the Xavier Innovations website. Most visitors are still using Internet Explorer. Version 8 is most popular, and version 7 still surprisingly high although IE7 is very buggy - of note field spacing issues seen in signup forms, contact forms. IE7 users should upgrade to IE8, click here to get the IE8 upgrade from Microsoft