Category Archives: Internet

Direct, referral or organic traffic

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Just trying to get my head around the ‘Direct’, ‘Referral’ and ‘Organic’ traffic classifications in Google Analytics. Basically ‘Direct’ is where there is no referrer header, e.g. user typed URL into address bar, clicked on link in email, etc. ‘Referral’ means some website referred the traffic, e.g. a link in an article on another website. ‘Organic’ means that one of a predefined set of search engines referred the traffic in response to a search.

Not sure how Google AdWords traffic is classified… I expect that would be ‘Referral’ as it’s not ‘Direct’ and not really ‘Organic’ either.

Online advertising and website popularity

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I was doing some research into online advertising and found… nothing… swear!

Also I used alexa.com for the first time to get some reports on my domains, for example jsphp.co which is ranked 5,148,442 in the world.

I’d like to know what the average number of monthly visitors to all websites is (so I could know if my sites were more or less popular than the average website), but my search didn’t turn up any answers.

I bumped into this MLM scam guy too. He did mention one useful thing though: authorize.net, an online payment system.

Apache configuration error: couldn’t check user. No user file?

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I was trying to configure Digest authentication in Apache and I was getting Internal Server Error 500 when trying to access my site. The Apache error log reported: “configuration error: couldn’t check user. No user file?”

Turned out the problem was that I hadn’t installed the Digest auth module. So the fix was:

 # a2enmod auth_digest
 # apache2ctl graceful

Support for OpenID

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Was just having a look into what kind of support there was for OpenID in the software that I use, and basically it looks like there is fairly good support. Mailman might be a bit of a trick.

MediaWiki

WordPress

Mailman