Tech Note: Minty Stats
A new addition to the site, although you wouldn’t know it unless you look at the source code: Mint, a nicely-designed site statistics package with a slick Ajax interface by Shaun Inman.
Quickie review: very simple to install, and started working flawlessly right away with almost no perceptible impact on the servers. The license is very reasonable; 30 bucks. The code is Javascript-driven, so it’s able to collect data on things like screen and window size, Flash compatibility, outbound links, etc. The disadvantage of the Javascript-based approach is that it doesn’t help identify malicious bots (human or otherwise), but we already have good tools for that.
Mint has lots of nice extensions that build on the core functionality, and it seems to get along just fine with jQuery (on which LGF relies). If you manage a web site, we recommend it. Check out the live demo.
Since we set it up a couple of hours ago, the browsers our visitors are using:
Internet Explorer: 44%
version 7: 34%
version 6: 10%
Firefox: 41%
version 3: 34%
version 2: 6%
Safari: 10%
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