[backstage] National Statistics API?

2006-12-08 Thread oliver wood
Morning Gang, I lvoe the elvel of detail available on http://www.statistics.gov.uk/ but they don't provide any feeds or API's as far as I know. Has anybody come across anything simalar, or any third-party parsings of this information which is easily accessable? It looks like it would tie into

[backstage] BBC Website recognition?

2006-12-08 Thread Rob Dunfey
Hi List, I'm just writing a report and want to note the outstanding work of the BBC online. I think its generally accepted the BBC website is a world beater, does anyone know off hand of a research report (or the like) that recognises the work of the BBC that I can access online? I realise such

RE: [backstage] BBC Website recognition?

2006-12-08 Thread David Shaw
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[backstage] Site statistics

2006-12-08 Thread Allan Jardine
Hello all, Does anyone know if the BBC releases statistics such as browser version/type, screen resolution and so on? It would be very interesting to see what these are, as bbc.co.uk is probably a fairly unbiased source for this type of information, unlike w3schools.com, which is tech

Re: [backstage] Site statistics

2006-12-08 Thread Richard Hyett
They, the BBC could always use Google Analytics, only takes a few minutes to set up, its free and the results can be fairly detailed. :) I've said it before, but I'll say it again, how the site is used, in terms of text searches, navigation paths - through the site -most popular pages/videos,

Re: [backstage] BBC Website recognition?

2006-12-08 Thread Barry Hunter
Infact, if you ignore search engines (Google, Yahoo), apps (gmail) and Microsoft (wtf?) the Beeb is the most visited site in the world*. and Microsoft (wtf?) Drifting O/T, but I suspect that is skewed by the 'check for updates' that Internet Explorer does by default every time its

RE: [backstage] Site statistics

2006-12-08 Thread Daniel Morris
Internally, there exists very details stats on this sort of thing, but I have absolutely no idea if it's allowed to be published externally! Daniel Morris | Web Developer BBC Entertainment : Manchester : New Media int. 01 44217 ext.

RE: [backstage] Site statistics

2006-12-08 Thread Kim Plowright
FEES AND SERVICES . Subject to Section 15 herein, the Service is provided without charge to You for up to 5 million pageviews per month per account, http://www.google.com/analytics/tos.html I'll tell you this: our volume is a wee bit more than 5m PI/month. :) We do have a big internal stats

RE: [backstage] Site statistics

2006-12-08 Thread Jason Cartwright
Hehehe. Just a few more... like 500 times more. 2005/2006 annual report says bbc.co.uk does around 2.5 billion page impressions on an average month... http://www.bbcgovernors.co.uk/annreport/ Personal opinion: Google Analytics rocks. Can't imagine what other stats providers are doing now its

Re: [backstage] Site statistics

2006-12-08 Thread Tom Loosemore
On 08/12/06, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that Martin Belam has done a little work on this ( http://www.currybet.net/articles/user_agents/index.php ) but these results are now a year out of date. Yes, my new report about visitors to Sony's CONNECT store doesn't make such

Re: [backstage] Site statistics

2006-12-08 Thread feedback
please take us off your email list - Original Message - From: Richard Hyett To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 1:22 PM Subject: Re: [backstage] Site statistics They, the BBC could always use Google Analytics, only takes a few minutes to set up,

Re: [backstage] Site statistics

2006-12-08 Thread feedback
please take us off your email list - Original Message - From: Daniel Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 1:44 PM Subject: RE: [backstage] Site statistics Internally, there exists very details stats on this sort of thing, but I have

Re: [backstage] BBC Website recognition?

2006-12-08 Thread feedback
please take me off your email list - Original Message - From: Gavin Montague [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Website recognition? I don't know if it counts as authoritative but Netcraft rank it as

Re: [backstage] National Statistics API?

2006-12-08 Thread feedback
please take me off your email list with immediate effect - Original Message - From: oliver wood To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:24 AM Subject: [backstage] National Statistics API? Morning Gang, I lvoe the elvel of detail available on

Re: [backstage] BBC Website recognition?

2006-12-08 Thread feedback
please take me off your email list with immediate effect - Original Message - From: David Shaw To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:40 AM Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC Website recognition? If you find it, count me in too! David Shaw

Re: [backstage] BBC Website recognition?

2006-12-08 Thread Richard P Edwards
:-) and there I was enjoying the discussion. :-) On 8 Dec 2006, at 16:22, feedback wrote: please take us off your email list - Original Message - From: Barry Hunter To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 1:35 PM Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Website recognition?

[backstage] FW: BBC doesn't get web video

2006-12-08 Thread Ian Forrester
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