Site Speed, now even easier to access

Speed matters. Faster loading pages mean more visitors land on your site instead of waiting in frustration or leaving. The Google Analytics Site Speed report will help you learn which of your pages are underperforming, so you can address this potential barrier to your conversions.

The Site Speed report was launched a few months ago, but it required site owners to add an additional Google Analytics tracking code to see data in this report. Based on increasing user requests we are now making this feature available to all Google Analytics users and removing the requirement to modify your Google Analytics tracking code. As of today all Google Analytics accounts will automatically have the Site Speed report available with no extra work required from you.


Want to check out Site Speed in your account? It’s easy. Go to the content section and click the Site Speed report. There are three tabs within the Site Speed report for you to review: Explorer, Performance, & Map Overlay. Each provides a slightly different view of your site speed performance. The Explorer tab provides an overview of load time by page. The Performance tab buckets your site speed performance by page load time. The Map Overlay tab provides a view of your site speed experienced by users in different geographical regions (cities, countries, continents). Below are snapshots of the Performance & Map Overlay tabs.





If you have already been using the Site Speed report through the additional tracking script, you can keep using the report as before. Since the tracking code “ _trackPageLoadTime” is no longer required to enable Site Speed report, going forward Google Analytics will simply ignore it.

Interested in understanding the details of the Site Speed report sampling rate, tracking of virtual pageviews, and impact of redirects?

• Sample rate - Google Analytics samples your page load times to generate this report. For the more technical minded users you can adjust this sampling rate by adding to your Google Analytics code the function - setSiteSpeedSampleRate. 

• Support for virtual pages - If a virtual path was used in the _trackPageview call, that path will now also be associated with any site speed data collected from that page.

• Redirection time - Redirects are now counted as part of the "page load time" metric, so it represents the total time a user perceives of your site loading. Current users of the Site Speed report may notice a small increase in page load times as a result of this update.

Still have questions? Check out the Google code site and Help Center articles on Site Speed. We hope you’ll gain insights from this newly updated report and be able to use it to optimize your pages.  Please share with us your thoughts on this report and any suggestions for future updates. 

- Nir Tzemah, Google Analytics Team

1 Day Project

I'm going to give you a series of items to work on today.  Do ALL the activities and choose any TWO to write about on your blog (with links!!).

1. Check out a Google Skills List.  Try some of them.  Have you been using Google effectively?
2. Do any of those skills help you solve todays Google Puzzle?
3. Can you win Third World Farmer?  How do games help you learn?  Being a 3rd world farmer can be frustrating and hard and life just isn't fair is it?
4. Are Theo Jansen creatures alive?  Why or why not?
5. Take five minutes and look at Book Creator and Show Me on the iPad.
6. Leave a comment on a 1st graders blog, here, or here.  Be sure to log in first if on blogmeister and leave SUPER nice and SUPER polite short entries for the kids.  On the other sites if it asks for your blog be sure to copy the correct address of YOUR blog.  Find some other blogs on the front page of blogmeister.  Hint: they will come back and read your blog.  Be ready!

What am I grading:
1. Can you follow directions?
2. Can you process information from many sources and accomplish a task (leave comments, write, etc...)?
3. Can you work effectively with others?

I am hoping to grade your blogs this weekend.  Please edit any blogs that need editing.  Each blog should include links, a Title, have no spelling errors or typos, and be solid writing.  Double check all of them and make sure you have submitted all.

If you finish tackle some more Flash or Fireworks tutorials.

Additional Flash Work

You need to complete the basic tutorials form the last session first.  Be sure to understand shape tween, motion tween, layers, and masking.

Today please complete the following.  These are much more complicated.  Some of these are video tutorials.  Be sure to use your headphones to respect your neighbors.  I suggest splitting your screen when doing the tutorials (tutorial on left, Flash on right)

Zoom In Zoom Out
Shiny Text
Drag and Drop (action Script coding)
Basic Slide Show
Importing Sound to Flash

Want to do something else?  Search on google or YouTube and find a tutorial.

If you have not read the Morris Lassmore book on the iPad try to do that today if you have time.  Be sure to write about the experience (with links!) on your blog.

PLENTY OF POSITIVES IN THE LIVESTOCK AUCTION SALES

PUBLISHED BY THE SUNDAY NEWS 'LIVESTOCK MARKETS BY MUHLE M. MASUKU'

13/11/11

A barrage of negatives has been leveled at the communal cattle auction markets lately owing to government activity, inactivity and buyer arrogance. As scribes we stand accused of incessant bombardment of the cattle auction markets and rarely do we point at their insurmountable contribution to rural communities.

Kumbulani Mdimba, a respondent from Binga gave me a rude awakening when he narrated the untold suffering of the peasantry due to unavailability of organised sales in the district. “We are victims of unscrupulous buyers who offer the least prices in the region. Rural District Council organised cattle sales were stopped nearly a decade ago, and ever since we have lived at the messy of the spiteful buyers. Surely Mr. Masuku, half a loaf is better than none, we have nothing.”   

A scary picture began to develop as the monstrosity of the problem in Binga dawned on me. For as long as I can remember, small stock farmers have met with the same unbecoming situation in all the districts in Matebeleland region, no markets at all. The question that comes to my mind is, how do resource poor small scale farmers cope?

Literature tells us that the majority of poor farmers in the region own at least poultry, sheep or goats. There is no market for these in rural Matebeleland save for the recent intervention in Matebeleland South province by SNV (a Non Governmental Organisation) and partners. At least the small scale farmer has a market for small stock, better late than never.  

Typically African, we got a hand and now request the whole arm, I humbly implore SNV to dig deep in order to help establish more auction sale pens in the region. Livestock production is our way of life, and any other way is fiction.

Our very own “black diamonds’ (rich and famous) are now the masters of deception, capitalists to the core. There is every reason to inculcate the spirit of giving on this lot; it’s a sure way to excellence and uncontested legacy.

Our dependence on foreign assistance to do everything for us is now cancerous, surely the Department of Research and Specialist services has to complement SNV’s efforts and come up with an objective grading system for livestock in the communal areas. Lest we forget, livestock auction sales were used as a conduit to siphon African cattle through a dubious grading system, while colonialists developed a world acclaimed carcass grading system which was exclusively for their own use.

The Department of Livestock Production and Development (LPD) is grappling with staffing problems, with one extension worker in Nkayi, a district with 30 wards. This department is tasked with information dissemination and the question is how? The assumption is that they are doing their job but alas, all is in vain. Its time they honour up and let AGRITEX that abdicated that role at LPD formation in 2002, assist as they maintain presence in every ward in Matebeleland.

Mrs. Jane Mpofu said, “Small stock auction sales were the best thing to happen to us in Gwanda since Independence in 1980. These sales greatly empowered women who are responsible for small stock in a traditional set up.” The goat is termed a ‘poor man’s cow’, men shy away from them hence the role of taking care of this stock is relegated to women and children.

There are so many negatives that do not need money to remove, that we can do I presume. I am concerned when all we can do is to raise the begging bowl. Let us complement the NGOs in our midst, for the benefit of our rural communities.

scam site identification

Scam site identification

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TOO MANY SCAM SITES

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            Because of this potential and attractive method many scammers take this prospect to seize as much as cash from new entries that do not recognize the characteristic of net biz. Net biz is too simple to be interrupted by virtual criminals. One can create a website that offers an opportunity to make money from home in fact he creates a scam site.

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You can now see mobile ad performance in Google Analytics.

Starting this week, some of you will see enhanced Analytics reports with mobile ad performance metrics. All AdWords reports in the new interface will be gaining a new visual toggle as shown below for “All”, “High-end Mobile” and “Tablet” ads.  All AdWords metrics available in Google Analytics can be segmented by these new mobile and tablet dimensions.

 

As more consumers begin to make use of tablets or high-end mobile devices, businesses need to understand this shift towards mobile and adapt your marketing mix. This mobile ads reporting enhancement in Google Analytics is one of many steps that we are taking towards helping you make more sense of how mobile advertising interacts with your business.

Please let us know what you think, and suggest any other mobile measurement options you’d like to see that help make sense of your mobile advertising effectiveness.

- Phil Mui, Google Analytics team