Website Sustainability

About  Truly Awesome Tactics to Gain Traffic from Twitter - YouMoz - Moz : This post named above, written by  Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , includes so interesting statistics such as 500 million tweets a day with 92% of the interaction being click links - so Twitter is a good social marketing tool for a sustainable website. If used well; the blog goes on to describe some of the basic considerations for doing this. My own personal opinion is Twitter is great for sharing information about the sustainable websites, don't be scared of using it. A lot of sustainable websites are not about making money, but sharing information and making sure the information is available; so sharing is a positive thing. I also link sharing relevant content whether your own or that of others, is vital (this was also #9 on  Truly Awesome Tactics to Gain Traffic from Twitter - YouMoz - Moz ) To read the blog post:  https://moz.com/ugc/truly-awesome-tactics-to-gain-traffic-from-t...

Success Metrics in a World Without Twitter Share Counts - Moz :  "When asked directly, Twitter's statement about the removal of tweet counts has consistently been: "The Tweet counts alone did not accurately reflect the impact on Twitter of conversation about the content. They are often more misleading to customers than helpful." On the whole, I agree with Twitter that tweet counts are not a holistic measurement of actual audience engagement. They aren't the end-all-be-all to showing your brand's success on the channel or for the content you're promoting. Instead, they are part of the puzzle — a piece of engagement. To read more go to:  https://moz.com/blog/success-metrics-in-a-world-without-twitter-share-counts 'via Blog this'

Recently came across Twitonomy ( http://www.twitonomy.com ) and found it has this visually engaging way of showing twitter mentions. So I made this video. If you are a twitter user this tool is well worth a look.

Adam Ostrow: After your final status update | Video on TED.com Not really about web sustainability directly...but the whole idea about digital legacy. Taken from TED.com: Many of us have a social media presence -- a virtual personality made up of status updates, tweets and connections, stored in the cloud. Adam Ostrow asks a big question: What happens to that personality after you've died? Could it ... live on?

The figure above shows the summary of the usage overall; with a relatively large rise in the numbers of page views in July 2016. One of the most popular traffic source is probably due to the short post about can be Skydrive be used to host webpages  Can Skydrive be used as free  ho sting. (see table at the end of the post) A welcome surprise was the number of page views from the countries other than the UK (with the United States being the largest group).