November 2010
4 posts
New Website Checklist
I will update this with more things that I do before launching a website.
Google Analytics profile.
UserVoice forum.
Net Promoter Score Survey.
Bookmark the site at delicious.
Twitter account.
.coms with and without hyphen.
Redirect from hyphenated .com to non-hyphen .com.
JavaScript and maybe CSS sprite on the CDN.
Google alert for “domainname.com.”
Subscribe to the RSS Feed...
Download all images on a 4chan page
jQuerify the page.
Open Firebug.
Select the ‘Console’ tab.
Enter $('img[md5]').parent().each(function() { console.log($(this).attr('href')) });
Copy the URLs into Notepad or any other text editor and save them to urls.txt.
wget -nc -i urls.txt.
Alternatively, cat | wget -nc -i -
Google AdSense PPC with and without interest-based...
Average PPC without interest-based ads: 0.132211302 €
Average PPC with interest-based ads: 0.086962264
Not sure about this because it wasn’t split tested but still interesting.
Java PDF Open Source/Free Library Error Rates
Data quality is always a huge challenge in working with file formats. I wanted to find out the error rate of open source/free PDF libraries for Java, i.e. what percentage of PDF files they cannot read.
I downloaded 3583 PDF files from the intertubes and here are the results:
ICEpdf
ICEpdf couldn’t read 1.981579682 % of the files though I’m not absolutely sure of the number...