November 16, 2011
Have you ever been in a situation where your Internet is just dragging along, while you know that you’re the only person on your network, and you’re hardly using any bandwidth? There are plenty of tools out there that will help you with analyzing your home network and assist you with increasing your Internet speeds on that network.
August 12, 2011
If you have access to your router, and it’s able to log activity, it’s relatively easy to watch everything that’s going on to try to find any untoward activity. Today I’d like to show you how to set that up on your DD-WRT router and some Windows-only software called WallWatcher. OSX users can also use it using a Parallels virtual machine.
January 23, 2010
Networks are finicky at best. Wireless or Ethernet, almost everyone has had their share of network connection problems. It could be anything from not being to access the Internet despite being connected to the network, to not being able to connect to the network at all. Unfortunately, network connection problems are sometimes hard to diagnose. [...]
June 9, 2009
One of the most important thing to know, for anyone with a blog or website, is who’s visiting. We all love tracking our stats ““ how many visitors today? Who’s coming, who’s going, who’s subscribing? It’s a fun boost when there’s a spike in traffic, and lets you know when you’re doing something right. But [...]
May 20, 2009
These days there are plenty of plans to choose from to get yourself on the Internet. Some offer various speeds, others impose a bandwidth cap, so on and so forth. Understandably, it is essential to monitor your connection to ensure you are getting the stipulated bandwidth and also keep a track of your usage statistics. [...]
March 25, 2009
Every blog owner has been there: you log in to check your traffic and there’s been a spike or dip of epic proportions. A piddling number of visitors (or an inexplicable throng) have been to your page and you did nothing to bring it about. The first couple of times this happened to me I [...]
November 22, 2008
Analytics are a great tool to use with any website or blog. They help you understand where your traffic comes from and some of the ways that traffic behaves. In the past, MakeUseOf has covered several free traffic analytics tools to track all of your site’s statistics. Today, I’m going to tell you more about [...]
November 12, 2008
If you want to create a successful blog or website, it is important to understand where traffic is coming from and what people do when they get there. There are a number of free tracking tools available to help you keep track of how many visitors are on your site right now, what site they came from, what keywords got them there, how long they stay, and other statistical data such as country, state, browser type, monitor resolution, and what operating system they use. All of these traffic trackers are very easy to setup and offer a lot of help through FAQs and forums on their websites.
September 3, 2008
There are several good website traffic analytics tools out there, and the most popular today is probably Google Analytics. The other day I came across another alternative called BLVD Status. BLVD Status is currently in public beta, but it does provide a good service even at this stage. It comes with the basic analytic tools [...]
