PercentMobile makes tracking mobile users on your site easy

Like all site owners, trully knowing your audience is extremely beneficial as it will help you tailor your content and styles to your readers making them even more loyal and likely to stick with you in the long run. Today I ran across, and was lucky enough to snag one of the 500 invites (via: Tech Crunch) to be able to be part of the ongoing beta of PercentMobile. As the name spells out, it tracks your websites mobile users and displays them by carrier, phone model, country, screen dimension, and even if they are browsing over WiFi among other juicy tid bits. Knowing such information will make catering and providing certain content for certain users easier and actually fun to pick apart and go through. Unfortunately since I just signed up about twenty minutes ago, I don’t have any mobile statistics yet as it takes about two hours for the service to get up and going once you install the short snippit of code into your site. Because of that, I used the image above provided by Tech Crunch that shows the mobile statistics for FourSquare, a mobile social network. As you can see, the information is pretty intriguing. Even if you aren’t lucky enough to get into the beta, I highly recommend joining in once it becomes public. Information like this is pure gold. Once I get some stats to display, I’ll give you all a look.

Source: Tech Crunch

Follow your site in real time with Chartbeat

If you run a website, chances are you care at least a tiny bit about web traffic and who is coming look at and read what you spend countless hours per day producing. Of course there is the free and tried and true Google Analystics. However GA has one slight problem.  It operates on a delay, (though a quick pass through the settings panel can remedy this situation). But does fiddling with settings all of the time just to get a current picture of your site traffic annoy you or slow you down?  If that be ye, Chartbeat has a solution.