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No, I am not going traveling again. I am going to try Safari as my default browser at home for a week. I’ve used Firefox since version 1.5, and I feel like I want to try something new. The main reasons I went for Safari is speed and Mac integration. Safari 4 on Snow Leopard is insanely fast.
I will post how it goes in about a weeks time. Will I miss flashblock, or all my other extensions? I know the one thing that will bring me back to firefox occasionally is firebug, but I am not an active web developer for the time being, so it won’t be that often.
What I miss already:
While I wrote this article I found some things I already miss:
- The awesome bar (searching directly from it and smart-searching my history and bookmarks)
- Google Gears (really Google? No support for Safari on Snow Leopard? Shame on you!)
Wish me luck.
Google Analytics
The third stage of my visitor experiment is about getting statistics. I have already set up a basic stats page, but I want more info. Therefore I have now installed Google Analytics, a tool I’ve used in almost all of my previous website projects.
Google Analytics gathers a lot of important statistics for your site: Where did they find your site? What did they search for to get there through a search engine?
All of this can be used to further target your work towards sites you know give you visitors.
I will be sure to update if this information proves valuable.
Experiment
This article is the announcement of a spontaneously started experiment. I will in the following month try to get as many visitors to my blog as possible. If it succeeds, I will post my techniques and results. All the techniques will be fast and easy to adopt, since I can’t spend much time on my blog for the time being.
Stage 1: Spread the word
Part 1 relies on you. Please spread the word of my blog and my experiment as you read this. Use the buttons below if you want to share this experiment post. I will update on the experiment as we go along, and all the posts will be tagged with visitor experiment.
Stage 2: Check in regularly
If you use twitter, please follow @thomassnielsen. If you use an RSS reader, follow my RSS feed (or chose a feed based only on category or tag).
