Check this domain out:

http://www.elizabeth-chalmers-calgary-real-estate-condominiums-condos-home.com/

What the? Talk about stuffing keywords in the domain name, haha. Who could be bothered to type that one out, would it even fit on a business card?

This reminded me of another site I discovered yesterday: Bootmoney (Which is an amusing spoof of the popular ShoeMoney)

Maybe Elizabeth Chalmers has been reading the Bootmoney post 'domain name picking'

Well, it's the end of the month and so I thought I'd fire up Google Analytics to take a look at the stats for a couple of my websites. I didn't really find anything out of the ordinary until I decided to see how many users were using Vista.

Analysing data of the past two weeks gave me the following result (!)

So apparently more users are visiting the website with Windows 98 installed than Vista! and I can't believe people are still using ME. eww

Is this the same with anyone else? or just me?

As regular readers will know I'm close to finishing my latest project and so I've been testing it across multiple browsers on my PC: IE7, Firefox and Opera.

However, I don't have access to web browsers running on Linux or a Mac.

This is where browsershots.org comes in, it.

"Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here."

A very handy free tool.

Supported browsers/operating systems:

• Linux: Dillo 0.8, Epiphany 2.14, Epiphany 2.16, Firefox 1.5, Galeon 2.0, Iceweasel 2.0, Konqueror 3.5, Mozilla 1.7, Opera 9.2, Opera 9.10
• Windows: Firefox 1.5, IE5, IE5.5, IE6, IE7
• Mac: Firefox 2.0, Safari 2.0

Visit browsershots.org.

Today I stumbled upon TrafficEye.co.uk.

It gives you, via Microsoft’s excellent Virtual Earth, a real time map of traffic congestion, roadworks and other key incidents. I'd previously mentioned how I prefer Virtual Earth over Google Earth - it's the bird's eye view maps that do it!

Back on topic: TrafficEye lets me know, for example, that the traffic lights are out on Blackpool’s Central Drive and traffic is reduced to one lane and it also tells me there appears to be traffic issues due to a suspected accident on the M6 (surprise surprise).

The data is coming direct from TrafficLink who are the UK’s leading provider of real-time traffic and travel information.

I think it’s very well implemented, better so than the Google Earth ‘version’ that was announced earlier this week.

Vecosys have mentioned that there are plans for it to evolve into a mobile application and the next version will contain real-time weather reports. TrafficEye is certainly something I'll be keeping MY eye on

Related: Live Birds Eye View Maps

After reading on both Connected Internet and Techtites that Alexa had introduced some more statistics for me to look at (sorry, I like stats) I quickly rushed to check Alexa. While the stats for most of my sites seemed 'pretty normal' that soon changed when I checked the stats for The Rockstar Game.

As that shows, therockstargame.com users primarily come from Lithuania (34.6%), Portugal (26.9%), United States (15.4%). I know that's not the case, so I logged in to Google Analytics and checked the past week, and that gave me the following….

As you can see that paints a completely different picture.

Obviously the Alexa data is based upon users with the Alexa Toolbar installed but it suprises me that it can be so out. The 2% of visitors from Lithuania over the past week is a pretty solid figure over the past year… clearly Alexa is 'big in Lithuania'