An Experiment on the Ease of Reading Text

Though it is true that the real information about the quality of text can be collected by reading it, there exist better empirical ways to do that for you. To judge the text in accordance with such empirical methods require some raw data.  For instance, the average number of words per unit sentence, the percentage of complex words in the text, and the average number of syllables per word. To...

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Auto Grammar Check, Grammarly, A Review

Word Processing softwares like Microsoft word are simply awesome in correcting your essays, reports and business letters. But, not all mistakes are picked up by such softwares. Reason, they're not made for sentence corrections. They're made to help you type, change font sizes, colors etc. But checking grammatical compositions? I don’t think so. During one such endeavor, I stumbled upon Grammarly....

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The Relation between Reading ease and Viewership

Ever wondered, how your writing style affects the number of visitors at your blog?  We often wonder what do people mean when they say, quality trumps quantity. Or when people say, "You need to focus on your content to leverage your SEO practices". Who knows what type of content qualifies as quality content? So we at codemakit, performed an experiment to find out "How does page views...

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4 Crucial facts Google Analytics can tell about your readers

Here are 4 crucial cues about your readers that you can get by observing your Google Analytics data. Just like in any project, knowing who you cater to helps you in increasing your work's quality. Google Analytics help you bridge that gap by answering your most asked questions. Why Google Analytics? GA will help you understand where your website or blog visitors come from. Let us think...

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An Interview at RescueTime

Do you know you could increase your productivity up to 80% if you could assess and remove your most distracting activities from your work schedule? With an ever increasing dependence on computers and PDAs for fulfilling our work and entertainment requirements, it is hard to keep track of when you digress and spend your precious time on unproductive activities. RescueTime literally rescues...

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An introduction to Content Marketing

Content Marketing or Internet Marketing is basically advertising whose main job is to direct traffic from one website to another. This might include direction of traffic from a blog to an eCommerce website or from a social network to a blog/ website.  More often than not, advertisements lead to a series of events not envisioned even by the web owner. A very simple example can be a situation...

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What happened when I increased Font Sizes

Website font sizes are an important factor in determining if a visitor leaves your website happy or sad. The current study will help you figure out what effect increasing your website's font size will have on the overall quality and quantity of visitors. One of the most popular articles on codemakit was based on a study which answered a simple question. One which has been asked by numerous...

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Interview with the geniuses at Degoo.com

Today we have with us the founders of a really interesting cloud based service, degoo.com. Often users face problems when they try to back up their computers.  Some suffer due to lack of processing power. But, our Dynamic duo Carl Hasselskog (CEO) and Mattias Nylitz (Co-Founder) worked upon their master's thesis and created degoo.com, a service that lets you automatically back your computer...

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Solutions to Copyright Problems in Interviews

When an interview is conducted for the purpose of publishing, who owns the copyright? Is it the interviewee who responds to questions or the interviewer who shoots the questions? Codemakit has conducted a fair share of interviews with prominent web personalities in its term. With the pressure to create new and original articles, on often wonders, if an article is created with the cooperation of...

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How will my Blog Die? (New and Returning Visitors)

There are two types of visitors on a blog, an impressed one which has returned to the website and an unimpressed one which has arrived for for the first time. Note. If you think you've missed the previous part, check out the 'When will my blog die?' study from the start. Several parameters define the quality of visitors on a website, percentage new sessions and percentage returning sessions...

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