Category Archives: statistics

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Forex Global Statistics – March 2011

What’s new in the forex industry? Forexpros continues to grow and seems to be now bigger than DailyFX I don’t know if the numbers provided by google are correct but, for the global statistics, march was not as good as … Continue reading

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One step beyond

I have less visitors this month but some interesting numbers… more than 10’000 followers on my twitter account 2’000 traders who receive my alerts on their iPhone after only 6 months (via our fantastic application) almost 25’000 newsletter subscribers Mataf.net … Continue reading

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Banned from Iran

I received a bad news from a member of Mataf this morning. I’m banned from Iran

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Forex Global Statistics – January 2011

According to Google Ad Planner, here is the number of visitors in forex portals in january 2011. I have now 12 months history of number of visits and we can see a lot of information. The global number of visits … Continue reading

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