While this blog was originally going to cover Chess and the mixed fortunes of a low-to-mid-ability Chess player, it soon diversified and I've been using it as a platform to discuss and share a wider range of topics. I discovered that I could share my thoughts and challenges as a website analyst, and there's a range of pages on website analysis. Unsurprisingly, this site is tagged and I discovered a huge spike in traffic after I shared my first question and link on the Yahoo Web Analytics group (long since disbanded). So that's why I followed that source of traffic... and subsequently found myself getting recruited at a global tech firm doing website analysis and testing.
Which of your website pages are getting no traffic?
Why are your pages getting no traffic?
Web Analytics and Testing: A Summary
More recently, I've covered some more advanced topics in online testing and optimisation:
Zero Traffic (it's a recurring theme)
Multi Armed Bandit Testing
Designing Personas for Testing
Then I discovered I could use it to ask for help with mathematical puzzles, and that one took off too. There are plenty of forums out their for sharing help, questions and challenges with maths, and the puzzle, "How do you make the numbers from 1 to 50 using only 1,2,3,4?" was my most visited page for years. It expanded to:
How do you make the numbers from 100-150?
And the numbers from 150-200?
I've since unpacked the Collatz Conjecture, and other conjectures in the mathematical world too. Posts in this theme have largely been put under the 'calculator games' theme (because they can be investigated with nothing more than a calculator), and include the investigating the Kaprekar constant and Ulam sequences.
So, although I intended to start off with a Chess theme, I have written articles about things that have interested me, and things that - I hope - interest you too!
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