] VisitorVille employs a graphical, urban metaphor to ] present information about customers' real-time ] Web-traffic flow. A company's entire Web presence is seen ] as an urban or suburban neighborhood, with each ] individual Web page presented as a building. The more ] visitors on a site, the taller the buildings, and the ] brighter the lights on each floor. ] ] Continuing the metaphor, visitors who have found a site ] using popular search engines arrive in the "city" on ] virtual buses emblazoned with their logos. This is neat. Really neat. Worth looking at. Unfortunately it works by using a web-bug. Their website is slow. Really slow. I don't want to tie the performance of my site to theirs. I don't want their server holding complete logs for my website. I also don't want to pay bling bucks host their software. Nor do I want to put their bug into all of my pages. You'd think they could handle Apache logs. Apache has something like 60% of the market. |