Graham Leggate

I haven’t posted much in the last coupe of months. We have been pretty busy with renovations on the house. We are currently getting an awesome Western Red Cedar alfresco area and new balcony put on the back of the house and getting the backyard re-paved. I might post some before and after pictures of the renovations at some point. This week is yet another busy week, off to Sydney tomorrow for work.

Anyway this post isn’t anything to do with photography, but I thought somebody out there in the internet world might find this a useful plug. I was listening to a photography podcast a week or two ago, and they mentioned some software called Woopra. Woopra allows you to monitor visitors to your website in real-time. Very cool software!  Basically they provide you with the ability to easily hook into the service from your existing website by adding some javascript or for specific websites they provide plugins (sites like; WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Invision Powerboard, Movable Type, TypePad, and Blogger). You install a desktop client (java based), available for OSX, Windows and Linux. Then you can sit back and monitor who, what, wherefrom, how people are getting to your site. You also have the ability to open a chat session to a visitor as well. Very cool software. We typically use Google Analytics for our main site, but one annoying feature is that the stats are always a day behind. Anyway, if you run a website or blog and are interested in getting some more detailed stats, then take a look at Woopra. Below are a couple of screen captures from the desktop client.