Google Analytics Hourly Data

Google Analytics provides hourly data for a few reports. The hourly data reports are  available for the following reports: Visitors: Visits, Absolute Unique Visitors, Page Views, Average Page Views, Time on Site, Bounce Rate Goals: Total Conversions, Conversion Rate, Goal Value, Abandoned Funnels E-Commerce: Total Revenue, Conversion Rate, Average Order Value When hourly data is [...]

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Upgrade PHP 5.1 to 5.2 on centos with APC VBulletin

I have a dedicated server running CentOS 5. I run 4 Vbulletin forums and a few WordPress sites. Vbulletin is set to release their much awaited version Vbulletin 4 with Publishing Suite and all those fancy features. Being an active license holder, I decided to play with the new version by upgrading a test instance [...]

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West Bengal and Bandhs

Strikes are called “Bandhs” in India, and when it comes to West Bengal (the state I live in), they take the form of either a relaxing holiday or a trauma experience depending on your choice. West Bengal has been the haven of Communist Parties for more than three decades now. Having driven out major industries [...]

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Take screenshot without the taskbar

Often we have to take a screenshot of our monitors to maybe send it to demonstrate  the problem we are facing to IT support or maybe to share with a friend. The keyboard key “Print Screen” is a life saver in such situations. However there is a small problem that when we take a screenshot [...]

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WordPress or Joomla

For the uninitiated, Joomla is one of the best Content Management Systems (CMS) out there. Only Drupal matches it in terms of power but not in ease. But this post is about WordPress and Joomla. WordPress is of course the blogging platform on which this blog is running. For the wordpress fan, it is more [...]

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Celebrating Eid ul Adha

Eid ul Adha is one of the only two official religious festivals of Islam. This is celebrated as a remembrance of the actions of one of the most prominent Prophets of God Almighty, Abraham (peace be upon him) or as he is called in Islamic societies, hadhrat Ibraheem (peace be upon him). Anyways, so back [...]

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Start a Website

According to statistics published by Miniwatts Marketing group’s internetworldstats.com, the global internet penetration in 2009 is at 25.6%, which translates to 1.7 billion people. The penetration varies in accordance with regional economic situation, but that is to be expected. North America has the highest net penetration standing at 74%. While this data is approximate, it [...]

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