Category Archives: statistics
Almost 1 visitor out of 5 is a mobile visitor
Last month Forexticket reach a new milestone. Our visitors viewed more than 5 millions pages for the first time (+23% YOY). And next quarter 1 visitor out of 5 should be a mobile visitor. The growth rate is awesome.
Mobile could reach 30 to 50% in the next 5 years.
This is the mobile share on Forexticket: All websites on the Internet have the same evolution. Mobile could reach 30 to 50% in the next 5 years. How To Best Optimize Your Mobile Site For SEO Make It Truly Mobile … Continue reading
A great trend
After changing the name of Mataf.net in Forexticket I experimented a big drop in the number of visitors – see “What you should know about forexticket” and “changer un nom de domaine” (in french). It took 7 months to reach … Continue reading
Latency and Visitors
I often read that Amazon loses 1% in sales every 100ms of latency and Google’s traffic drops by 20% with an extra 0.5 seconds on load time per page. I measured the pages viewed per visit and the load time … Continue reading
What you should know about Forexticket?
This year ForexTicket/Mataf will be a 10 years old website. It’s a good reason to have a look in the past and to imagine the future. During the last 10 years Mataf was my playground. I worked with search engine … Continue reading
Develop general knowledge with web analytics
While I was analysing the statistics of forexticket I noticed a strong fall in the number of visitors from many countries since last sunday. I thought it was an other change in a search engine’s algorithm. But I looked closer … Continue reading
When to Stop Optimizing and Start Thinking
Sometimes I should concentrate myself on “non-quantifiable factors” instead of opening Google Analytics. You vs. The Data: When to Stop Optimizing and Start Thinking. The availability of data drives us towards optimization. We push towards our goals with pinpoint … Continue reading
Spain leading the smartphone revolution in Europe
Spain leading the smartphone revolution in Europe Did you know that 33 % of the Spanish population actually has a smartphone (Ipsos GmbH & TNS Infratest)? Through the recently released research site ourmobileplanet.com we have seen that among major European … Continue reading
Finance and smartphone
Coming Soon: Mobile Intel Series: Finance Finance is a vertical with a variety of subsets (i.e. banking, insurance companies, stock trading firms, etc.), and the report will contain an in-depth look at what the industry is doing in mobile. Some … Continue reading
Difference between adplanner and Google Analytics
Each month I follow the statistics of a selection of forex website. I use Google Adplanner. This tool gives an estimation of the number of visits. I noticed a divergence between the estimation and the real numbers. With the following … Continue reading