Audience measurement services

I'm trying out alternatives for Google Analytics
So I've found a valuable contestant, let's wait and see: Quantcast is the World’s Only Open Internet Ratings Service

Quantcast is a new media measurement service that lets advertisers view audience reports on millions of websites and services. Only Quantcast combines directly measured audience data with panel-based estimates to deliver accurate third-party metrics and easy-to-read profiles on digital media properties.

Advertisers – Find an Audience!
View detailed audience reports for millions of websites and services to find the audiences you seek and build your brand online with confidence.

Publishers – Make Your Audience Count!
Demonstrate the unique value of your audiences and attract advertisers by tagging your websites, videos, widgets and games for direct measurement.

Google History

Google have recently released Google History which documents all of your browsing through a browser plugin. It lists all of your past searches and displays trends of your browsing. It has features for Bookmarking.

Looks like it could be pretty useful. I was about to comment on the fact that it would be more difficult to clear your history if your mum was wanting to see what you've been upto, but it's stored in your google account under the safe protection of your password - so that's pretty cool too.
Check it at http://www.google.com/history

Browserwars anno 2007

I couldn't resist posting this stat now either. Browserwars as we've known it back in the neighnties have long gone some say but *heck, it's still on. Netscape overally lost the battle, but luckely InternetExplorer is on a downfall too. But glabally (for mainstream users) InternetExplorer is still most used (because of the default delivery packaged with Windows versions)

Note: I'm mostly posting for a targetted audience of creatives and designers, who mostly (overally) work on the macintosh, normally Safari doesn't score that high.

Standard screen resolution

As a webdesigner one often wonders for what resolution to layout the core-content. As I'm working on a 23" Cinema Display I'm totally disconnected to what most viewers experience going to most websites. A site should be optimized for different types and sizes, off course, but still. I've been tracking Google Analytics on various websites quiet some time now and finally some valuable figures have shown.I'll be posting intersting conclusions and/or figures under the label "statistics" from now.

This graph clearly shows that 1024x768 is fully embedded as the global standard, hardly anyone works on 800x600 anymore. Also notice that widescreens are on a rise, I think that we'll be facing another problem within a max of 3 years; a global standard like 1024x768 will dissapear and various types of widescreens will rule (possibly brands are going to set standard because of highest sales on a particular product)

— "See the forest and the trees", Google Analytics