I Know Who You Are!
Do you realize how information you give others when you are surfing the Internet? Here are a few stats on you:
| Type | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Located in US | 34% |
| Located in Canada | 11% |
| Located in UK | 11% |
| Located in Europe | 35% |
| Located in Asia | 12% |
| Reach http://www.foto-biz.com from a search engine | 50% |
| Reach http://www.foto-biz.com from a link | 26% |
| Reach http://www.foto-biz.com from a direct/bookmark | 23% |
| Have a screen size of 1280 pixels or more | 80% |
| Screen colors: 32 bit/16 million colours | 50% |
| Screen colors: 24 bit/16 million colours | 47% |
| Use Firefox as a browser | 39% |
| Use Internet Explorer as a browser | 25% |
| Use Safari as a browser | 17% |
| Have Java enabled | 86% |
| Use cable like Comcast, Videotron | 33% |
| Use DSL like Bell, SBC… | 30% |
| Use T1 [1.5Mb/sec] | 8% |
| Use dialup | 1% |
Even without any cookie, I can identify every single one of you. I know your IP address [it can change]. I know your operating system, your browser, your screen resolution... All of these things put together, make you 99.9999% unique.
But this also tell me which web page you are using, where you are coming from, how long you are staying on a page. Are you reading it or not?
I'm in the process of redesigning the website to eventually integrate the photos "properly". This means that I can make the width of the page slightly less than 1280 pixels wide, 80% of the people have a megabit download, this means that I can put my images, elements... without slowing down the website.
Also think about the marketing implications.
Since I use Google Analytics like another 250 million web sites, Google knows all of that, but it also know:
- Almost all the websites that you visit, whether you use Google or came through a bookmark.
- Which web site you came from.
- Which web site you are going to.
- Which web page you viewed.
- Which web page you read.
- What are your interests.
- Google has a profile on every one of you, including me.
- ...