Improved mining techniques!

For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))

We count web site visits by the number

of hits per minute these days ... rather than the number of hits per hour or day. Where do those visitors arrive? All sorts of places ... and not always the most relevant to their search, or at a page with the most relevant of links to them either.

We're fortunate that the Web provides us ... not only with a note of the IP address from which our visitor arrives (and hence we can make an educated guess at their country) but also with details of the page that initially provided a link to us and - usually - details of what they were searching for there if it was a search engine. With this extra information, we're now providing a handful of extra links on our pages (top right, where they'll be noticed) to new arrivals.

The extra code (script) is in PHP; it's not really in a shareable state at the moment (I think it's what they call a "spike" solution), but I'm sure I'll be talking about it during the next PHP course and enhancing my more detailed technical note in the near future.

(written 2005-06-19, updated 2008-06-05)

Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles

W512 - Web and Intranet - Site Design Aspects
  [229] A fortunate accident - (2005-02-27)
  [261] Putting a form online - (2005-03-29)
  [288] Colour blindness for web developers - (2005-04-22)
  [319] Accommodation and landing pages - (2005-05-21)
  [345] Spotting a denial of service attack - (2005-06-12)
  [391] One mans pleasure is another mans poison - (2005-07-26)
  [510] Dynamic Web presence - next generation web site - (2005-11-29)
  [556] Colour doesn't have to mean colourful - (2006-01-06)
  [649] Denial of Service ''attack'' - (2006-03-17)
  [718] Protecting images from theft - (2006-05-12)
  [795] Remember a site's non-technical issues too - (2006-07-07)
  [823] An excellent use for a visitor count? - (2006-08-05)
  [859] Put the answer in context - it may be printed - (2006-09-08)
  [918] Databases needn't be frightening, hard or expensive - (2006-11-08)
  [1015] Search engine placement - long term strategy and success - (2006-12-30)
  [1047] Maintainable code - some positive advice - (2007-01-21)
  [1054] UK legal requirements for your commercial web site - (2007-01-27)
  [1353] Mood shots - (2007-09-16)
  [1598] Every link has two ends - fixing 404s at the recipient - (2008-04-02)
  [2214] Global Index to help you find resources - (2009-06-01)
  [3517] Tags used in writing this blog - (2011-11-12)
  [3563] How big is a web page these days? Does the size of your pages matter? - (2011-12-26)
  [3589] Promoting a single one of your domains on the search engines - (2012-01-22)

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