Are there any good websites which feature how internet users use the internet. Which features stats like if they use cookies, browser type and version, the OS they use and a resolution? Or is the information used to design/build websites a standard, or do web designers/developers work to what they assume would be the most common and develop for that?
I suppose what I am asking is what standards do they work to? Industry standard, current and forthcoming use or is it just assumed?
http://gs.statcounter.com/ (not the statistic: drop down)
or
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
or google search for more
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This is maybe quite a broad question and I tried to look for other stack exchanges where addressing my question would suit better – but in the end I decided that it might be still a question of a technical nature, and so I am posting it here:
I recently started to think more about privacy and security and I realized that I as a web user can only do so much about staying untracked. VPN, (slow) Tor, privacy helpers, add-blockers, Firefox are just a few tools to name, but still I realize that the information that I normally share (like installed add-ons, browser size, IP location etc.) can still very well be fingerprinted.
Normally as a web-developer I am told that we should add analytics, that we should find out more about the users to «make a better service», but I think I would like to do the opposite.
So:
Are there steps I could take, when building a website, that help the visitors to stay untracked? And I don't mean «not installing google analytics», I mean things like somehow actively messing with the statistics, so that my hosters server is incapable of tracking things correctly or similar things...
Right now I can't really think of anything, but I somehow believe that I as a person who builds bricks of the internet could and should be able to influence these kind of things directly...
For now I see the obvious things:
- not using statistic services
- use https
- not using any third party tools that might include tracking or open doors for other trackers
But still this seems to just omit the bad things, but I can't actually do active stuff...
So I would be very glad to hear your thoughts about this. (Or guide me to a place, where this discussion fits a better..)
Cheers
merc
As a web developer, you can only control your website.
Assuming you aren't caching any data or using cookies, then users shouldn't be tracked while using your website by tools like 3rd party cookies.
Here is a good article about online tracking and how it works.
As far as I know, there isn't an effective way to actively mess with tracking statistics. Your best bet is to avoid installing libraries or tools that track your users.
Just wondering what pro web developers use to publish their sites. Also I would like to know what big sites have used, such as Amazon, Walmart, etc.
Thank you for your time.
It's a difficult question to answer, I guess. The tools used by a developer depends on the customer requirements. It may be one of the following:
Static site with graphics and/or flash (simple business site)
Dynamic site with front-end html/CSS and database driven backend using php, perl, .net, Java, etc.
A large site that may use ecom along with content management system (CMS). There you may need CMS (such as Joomla) along with compatible plug-ins and customization.
For very popular sites such as Amazon, speed and bandwidth are very critical. Usually, though they start small (say, using PHP/MySQL, or ready-made CMS), they change according to their own requirements sooner or later using custom coding (Java is very popular). This is only my guess!
For co-ordination and publishing, GIT is very popular.
hope this helps.
Our institution is moving away from Google Search Appliance since it has been discontinued. They are switching over to Google Custom Search Engine for our sites.
We have one site that is password protected so CSE won't work for it. Has anyone had experience with other web search solutions that work with password protected sites? It can be hosted locally on our server or cloud based, provided that data isn't accessible to everyone, like it would be with Google.
I have personally reviewed many of the replacement appliances you can find listed on Gartner's 2017 Magic Quadrant (a popular industry reports that talks about leading enterprise search engines), so feel I can give you an unbiased and informed opinion here.
If you are looking for an on-premises solution like GSA, at a similar price, that are capable of working with password protected sites and much more, I would recommend these:
Lucidworks Fusion: excellent choice, well polished admin console, super fast to get search instances running. This will feel like a nice upgrade from your GSA setup. They also have a very good list of existing clients. Build on top of Lucene/SOLR and main driving force between SOLR. They have some good AI under-the-hood too, so you don't need an army of editors to be continually tuning your engine (though it doesn't hurt). If you would like to test it, you can download a trial version from their site. https://lucidworks.com/
MindBreeze: very similar to GSA, physical server you can install in your data center. Easy to tune. You'll get similar relevancy as per GSA with just the basic tuning. Interface feels a little dated for my liking. https://www.mindbreeze.com/
SearchBlox: a lower cost solution you install on VM. A little more basic than the others, but cheap and cheerful. They also have a 30 day trial version that you can install on local VM for testing purposes. https://www.searchblox.com/
If you want something cloud-based, you have plenty of options too. Lucidworks and SearchBlox can both be installed on AWS and other cloud platforms. You also have some of the market leader options too, such as Attivio, Sinequa and Coveo. They are great, but I suspect offer a little more than you need (and can get costly).
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Should we support IE6 anymore?
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I would like to know which browsers we can avoid. Many sites have stopped support to IE6. So, as developers we can also start avoiding some sites? If yes, what are all? (which versions of what broswers)
Even though I have asked the question already here: which browser to start with? IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari? , I dint get the answer since its combined with another question.
Assuming it's a business site:
What's your target market?
How long do you expect until you release a working version of your website?
If current trends continue, what will be IE6's market share by then?
How much profit/value will those users bring?
How much will it cost to support those additional users?
Unless the costs are far below the profit, then don't bother. Otherwise, it might be a good idea.
If it's not a for-profit site(hobby, for instance), then you probably shouldn't bother, unless there's a really significant IE6 market share in your target market.
By the way, remember to use graceful degradation when possible and use feature detection instead of browser detection.
Finally, avoid blocking IE6 users and instead just display a warning saying the website is untested in their browser and suggesting an update(this last piece of advice only applies if you don't plan to support IE6)
Support the browsers that your users use.
stackoverflow.com can probably be less strict than other sites in the browsers it supports, since the vast majority of users are technically adept, and likely to be using a reasonably modern browser. amazon.com probably needs to support more browsers, since it will attract a broader spectrum of internet users.
Who uses your site? Who uses similar sites? What browsers are they using? That's how you decide what browsers to support - not based on what the population of internet users use, since the population of internet users probably isn't your audience (unless you're Google, that is).
You need to evaluate a few things:
Your audience. If you are targeting home users, informal or young audience, or technically advanced audience, you may wish to consider not supporting IE6. On the contrary, if you are targeting conservative business audience or large corporations, you should take IE6 in consideration
Are you developing for yourself, or on commission? If you are developing for someone, you need to discuss this with them
Is this a restructuring of an old site? You may use instruments like google analytics, to find out who your visitors are, and what do they use
Not supporting IE6 will save you a lot of headache, and many sites are starting to avoid it, to be free to implement new features using modern tools. But there are situations where you just can't afford this.
I have a client who has been using WebOffice (from WebEx) for a variety of tasks within their small organization. The problem is that they only really need a small subset of the features WebOffice provides (Contact list, Database, and Document Storage).
They've asked me to develop a website focused on these three features with the rationalization that this should be more cost-effective, since they currently aren't using many of the features of WebOffice they pay for.
What are some open-source alternatives that I could implement for them? Sharepoint sounds like it would be too bloated and Google Apps may not be as collaborative as they would like.
We looked at sharepoint and went like "meh". Anything interesting you want to do with it requires prohibitive licensing, and if you expose any piece of it to the internet then the cost just blows any budget away.
We are piloting a deployment of Alfresco, with KnowledgeTree also being a very decent option, IMO. As for the main site, something like OpenAtrium looks like a pretty decent and flexible fit without much configuration needed. OpenAtrium is based on Drupal.
SharePoint sounds like a good match? Did whoever told you it was bloated also mention why?
You might only need WSS which is free (if you have Windows Server).
My company hosts LumiPortal (www.lumiportal.com) which is similar to WebOffice but with drive letters for storage. If you have inhouse technical expertise, then on the open source side we see Joomla and Drupal, which could be thought of as classic content management systems. If you have in-house technical expertise, you might look at Drupal and their document management component first.
Call WebOffice customer service and tell them. They will probably adjust your payment options to suit your needs.
There's a good roundup of online collaboration/office suites here although it is a bit dated now.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_office_2007_year_in_review.php
Webex WebOffice hasn't been updated in 5 years and has been sunset by Webex with no migration path (confirmed in their forums) so I would get off it ASAP.
With the addition of Wave to Google Apps it would seem to be a much more cost effective and modern replacement.