Anal Retentive

While I am on the subject of useful OS X web development software I wanted to let you know about a cool “Xenu’s Link Sleuth” alternative (LS is a popular windows based link checker). On OS X their isn’t a lot of choice, however we only need one and “Integrity” provides all of the features we need.

I can tell ‘Integrity’ to not follow a paticular URL string, I can tell it to follow a paticular URL string etc. The results page can then be browsed for missing links (of course) and exported to a CSV file for further analysis…. Simple but effective!

Ok, but of a blog entry here, no real code, just some stuff that’s been rolling around my bored little mind… Each day I find myself using three tools more and more.

• Google Analytics
• Google Webmaster Tools
• Google Adsense

These 3 free powerful programs break down just about every useful piece of information I could possibly need, even now I am still only scraping the potential of these programs (especially ‘analytics’). But with them I can see is visiting my site, where they came from, I can see if they left the site immediately, how many pages they visited… etc etc.

Imagine what google is going to be able to do when AI kicks off, with all this information and statistics (not to mention access to anything and everything that isn’t made secure)… that is a scary thought!