Events of my life in 2009: Insignificant to all but significant to me.

What a year it was, 2009 has been amazing as far experience is concerned. Many new things i got to experience and I grew a lot as a person. So here is a summery of what happened in my last year.

January to March

The new year started with a bang. I and some of my friends had gone to Konkan for the year end vacation and needless to say that we all wanted a grand opening to 2009. So we partied late into the night and danced all the way. I must tell you that I danced for the first time in many years. The party was so crazy that one of our friends was drenched in beer; we actually showered him with it. This is how we welcomed 2009..

Nothing much happened in January as we waited for our results of first semester. Deep in my heart I knew that I had performed poorly and wanted to enjoy life as much as possible. In college sports season was about to start and we were very enthusiastic about that. Although, I wasn't going to get a chance in the team because of big "red tape" but there was this dream to participate. So I practiced and there was this hope against hope that I might get a shot. But as they say "Fun is always in he Journey", I was sure to enjoy the camaraderie of us rejects and that's what we had. And so the month of January passed with great exuberance.

February was to present an opportunity for me give a competitive exam after seven years. So I took a break from my college and studied for a week before the actual exam. I thought I would fare well in CET as I had put my heart and soul for the preparation in lead up to the exam, but there was a twist in store for me. The exam was unusually different if not difficult and it ended up being just a "good experience". Well that was about month of February and very mundane life followed in march. Nothing much happened in this month except for submissions. We had to actually fill 5 KG's of paper with ink pen.

Well this was all about events from January to March. I shall soon be posting an update.. bbye... take care.

Learn Web Analytics

The purpose of my blog over here is to understand and learn web analytics and, in process, learn some new concepts through it. Now I do not say that I know every concept in web analytics, but I will try to do justice to whatever I shall be talking about in this blog. But, it all begins with knowing what web analytics is..

What is Web Analytics?
According to wikipedia, web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage. Sounds very complicated, isn't it? Basically internet data has a way of measurement and obviously collection; and the purpose of any data measurement and data collection is to analyze and draw some conclusion. This conclusion is presented in the form of report. Now we have collected, measured, analyzed and reported all the internet traffic data, but there has to be some purpose to it. All this is done so that we may optimize our web usage. In other words we want as much traffic to our website as possible and we are doing the required internet research for it. Well, this is the most basic concept of web analytics, but merely understanding it won't get you anywhere. You have to jump in with both feet to really grasp the core analytics concepts.

Types of Web Analytics
Broadly web analytics can be classified into two categories.

• Off site.
• On Site.

On Site
When you are talking about off site web analtics, you are dealing with things from an outsiders perspective. Meaning you are not the owner of the website and yet you want to measure various aspects of the web site like measuring traffic, page rank etc, then such analytics is called off site web analytics.

Off Site
On site web analytics is something that you measure when the visitor is on the website. Things like how much time he stayed there, which page of your website user read the most, which is the page one which user lands directly etc.. But, these days the distinction between on site and off site web analytics is getting blurred and to talk of them in two different contexts is something which is very difficult to do. Following article should give you some insight of what web analytics is.

Key Definitions

Page Views
The number of times the page has been viewed.

Visits
If the user has a tangible interaction with the website then it is called a visit. Typically various aspect of the visit can be viewed by a web analyst. It may contain one or more page views.

As you can see the blog post is completely incomplete but due to various reasons, i shall not be doing this any time soon.