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My New UFB Fibre Connection Speedtest Results

Posted by tomachi on December 2nd, 2013 filed in Technology

On the left is my speed before the Fibre - on ADSL2+, and on the right is the new improved Fibre connection.

Before: via ADSL2+ on a Siemens router
ADSL2+ Speed on Snap.net.nz		 After: via Fibre on a Fritz! Box router
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--- snap.net.nz ping statistics ---
100 packets transmitted, 99 packets received, 1.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 18.170/53.645/180.602/36.932 ms

 

This one was at 6pm on a Thursday, doing a download of XCode - an entire Gigabyte in under 9 minutes showing, with an average speed of 3.4 MB/sec:

Solid 3.4 MB/sec

Solid 3.4 MB/sec

 

Here is an shot of my test done at http://speedof.me/

speedof.me_13-12-02

 

 

 

jb:~ tom$ ping snap.net.nz
PING snap.net.nz (202.37.100.24): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 202.37.100.24: icmp_seq=0 ttl=60 time=17.206 ms
64 bytes from 202.37.100.24: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=21.932 ms
64 bytes from 202.37.100.24: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=19.442 ms
64 bytes from 202.37.100.24: icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=18.951 ms
64 bytes from 202.37.100.24: icmp_seq=4 ttl=60 time=18.305 ms
64 bytes from 202.37.100.24: icmp_seq=5 ttl=60 time=18.035 ms
64 bytes from 202.37.100.24: icmp_seq=6 ttl=60 time=17.707 ms
64 bytes from 202.37.100.24: icmp_seq=7 ttl=60 time=20.250 ms
^C
--- snap.net.nz ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 17.206/18.979/21.932/1.443 ms
jb:~ tom$ traceroute snap.net.nz
traceroute to snap.net.nz (202.37.100.24), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 fritz.box (10.0.0.1) 1.700 ms 1.684 ms 1.354 ms
2 16.17.69.111.static.snap.net.nz (111.69.17.16) 5.927 ms 7.263 ms 3.838 ms
3 54.32.69.111.static.snap.net.nz (111.69.32.54) 4.235 ms 3.416 ms 4.270 ms
4 30.100.37.202.static.snap.net.nz (202.37.100.30) 17.567 ms 16.954 ms 19.959 ms
5 *^C
jb:~ tom$ ping 16.17.69.111.static.snap.net.nz
PING 16.17.69.111.static.snap.net.nz (111.69.17.16): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 111.69.17.16: icmp_seq=0 ttl=126 time=6.862 ms
64 bytes from 111.69.17.16: icmp_seq=1 ttl=126 time=5.734 ms
64 bytes from 111.69.17.16: icmp_seq=2 ttl=126 time=9.467 ms
64 bytes from 111.69.17.16: icmp_seq=3 ttl=126 time=7.587 ms
64 bytes from 111.69.17.16: icmp_seq=4 ttl=126 time=7.067 ms
64 bytes from 111.69.17.16: icmp_seq=5 ttl=126 time=11.726 ms
64 bytes from 111.69.17.16: icmp_seq=6 ttl=126 time=5.335 ms
64 bytes from 111.69.17.16: icmp_seq=7 ttl=126 time=8.435 ms
64 bytes from 111.69.17.16: icmp_seq=8 ttl=126 time=7.965 ms
64 bytes from 111.69.17.16: icmp_seq=9 ttl=126 time=7.327 ms
64 bytes from 111.69.17.16: icmp_seq=10 ttl=126 time=6.341 ms
64 bytes from 111.69.17.16: icmp_seq=11 ttl=126 time=5.666 ms
64 bytes from 111.69.17.16: icmp_seq=12 ttl=126 time=4.146 ms
^C
--- 16.17.69.111.static.snap.net.nz ping statistics ---
13 packets transmitted, 13 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 4.146/7.204/11.726/1.883 ms
jb:~ tom$


Samsung SSD 840 Series Speed Test Result: 229.6 MB/sec!

Posted by tomachi on August 29th, 2013 filed in Technology

Samsung SSD 840 Series 229.6 MB/sec Performance Result

Samsung SSD 840 Series 229.6 MB/sec Performance Result

This is run on my Macbook Pro - I was shocked to watch it verify a multi-Gigabyte dmg file at such speed and had time to fire up Activity Monitor. Made a good test tho since the verify is just a read checksum so it should make the drive go at its full speed.

Results 463.66
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.8.4 (12E55)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro6,2
Drive Type Samsung SSD 840 Series
Disk Test 463.66
Sequential 297.96
Uncached Write 423.66 260.12 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 332.37 188.06 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 176.96 51.79 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 415.91 209.03 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 1044.54
Uncached Write 1479.11 156.58 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 546.59 174.99 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 2797.02 19.82 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 1034.84 192.02 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

Intel 5 Series Chipset:

 

Vendor: Intel

Product: 5 Series Chipset

Link Speed: 3 Gigabit

Negotiated Link Speed: 3 Gigabit

 

Samsung SSD 840 Series:

 

Capacity: 250.06 GB (250,059,350,016 bytes)

Model: Samsung SSD 840 Series

Revision: DXT06B0Q

Native Command Queuing: Yes

Medium Type: Solid State

TRIM Support: No

Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)

S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified

File System: Journaled HFS+


Zeald does NOT support GA ecommerce tracking

Posted by tomachi on August 27th, 2013 filed in Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Online Marketing

Dear Zeald,

you call yourself an ecommerce website builder - but you do not support the native ecommerce tracking features of Google Analytics - certainly the most popular web analytics package available in 2013.

This is an open letter to Zeald to try to convince you to consider supporting this feature, by default, for no extra charge for your existing customers. If you did support it, the thanks page for a conversion mite include calls to _addTrans, _addItem and _trackTrans, and would allow your clients to see the last traffic source before a conversion - whether it be from any source, Bing, Facebook, Yellow etc, not just Google Adwords. Not only that, but they would be able to see a plethora of multi-dimensional reports that could show average order value, top products, and feed the conversion value easily back into Adwords to enable true ROI calculations to be made for all traffic sources.

Once you have got this working - I'll convert this blog post into a thank you message.

Yet I see no mention of support in your help files, only this one which is about a different tracking method that only works for Adwords:

http://help.zeald.com/Getting+your+site+loaded+and+live/Content+Tips++Tricks/ADVANCED+Embedding+Source+code+given+by+third+parties+into+the+site/Adding+Google+Adwords+Conversion+Tracking+to+order+receipt+page+for+ordersecommerce.html

Adwords Conversion Tracking != Google Analytics Ecommerce Tracking.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/gaTrackingEcommerce

To help you get going, below is an example of what the tracking scripts look like:

<html><head><title>Receipt for your clothing purchase from Acme Clothing</title><scripttype="text/javascript">

  var _gaq = _gaq ||[];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount','UA-XXXXX-X']);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
  _gaq.push(['_addTrans',
    '1234',           // transaction ID - required
    'Acme Clothing',  // affiliation or store name
    '11.99',          // total - required
    '1.29',           // tax
    '5',              // shipping
    'San Jose',       // city
    'California',     // state or province
    'USA'             // country
  ]);

   // add item might be called for every item in the shopping cart
   // where your ecommerce engine loops through each item in the cart and
   // prints out _addItem for each
  _gaq.push(['_addItem',
    '1234',           // transaction ID - required
    'DD44',           // SKU/code - required
    'T-Shirt',        // product name
    'Green Medium',   // category or variation
    '11.99',          // unit price - required
    '1'               // quantity - required
  ]);
  _gaq.push(['_trackTrans']);//submits transaction to the Analytics servers

  (function(){
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type ='text/javascript'; ga.async =true;
    ga.src =('https:'== document.location.protocol ?'https://ssl':'http://www')+'.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
  })();</script></head><body>

  Thank you for your order.  You will receive an email containing all your order details.

</body></html>


Bidding by ROI Percentage in Adwords

Posted by tomachi on August 8th, 2013 filed in Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Online Marketing

UPDATE: on August 8 this year I posted this initial blog post, now I see Google is announcing the feature! Cool - http://adwords.blogspot.co.nz/2013/10/new-flexible-bid-strategy-and-webinar.html

Feature request: Dear Google, I would love to be able to bid by target ROI percentage in Adwords. The idea would be to set a target at the campaign level using a percentage ROI you would like. I have a client who doesn't want to run ads at less than 500% ROI, and this is something I am getting done using Google Analytics, but it is kinda tricky as I need to switch between GA and AW, boosting ad groups with high ROI, and pulling back on ad groups with poor ROI, working to increase the overall campaign ROI in order to acquire an increase in budget, and turn AW into a money printing machine.

ROI = return on investment.

ROAS = return on ad spend.

 

Thanks, Tom.


GA Bug: Internal Site Search tracking doesn't work with URLs rewritten by filter

Posted by tomachi on July 16th, 2013 filed in Google Analytics

So I thought I was being cunning by putting in a filtered profile which would have an advanced custom filter to re-write incoming URLs into the format expected by GA site search tracking.

But it doesn't work.

Here's the incoming URLs that won't track:

Before URL Rewrites

And here is the after they are rewritten, all nice and tidy with just the keyword:

After URL Rewrites

However, with site search tracking enabled, nothing is showing in the site search report.

Here is the filter config:

Filter Order

And the URL Rewrites are done with regex: /search/jobs/(.*)\?job

The capture group is output to a Request URI like this: /\?q=$A1

But perhaps the Internal Site Search tracking is applied before the filters: which is a bug right?

Filter Config

 

Thanks to Student Job Search for allowing me to publish this blog.

 


Congrats NZ You Got Screwed

Posted by tomachi on May 7th, 2013 filed in Politics

This graphs says everything:

Real electricity prices NZ compared to World

Real electricity prices NZ compared to World

Taken from: New Zealand’s failing experiment in electricity reform by Geoff Bertram

Get the PDF here: Chapter 21 Bertram - Electricity Fail

Credit: http://www.geoffbertram.com/