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Did you ever wanna build your own city? Maybe you love dogs dressed in bee suits? How about repenting, but this time, the easy way? These 10 useless sites serve absolutely no obvious purpose but are nonetheless a pretty entertaining, funny, and strangely enjoyable waste of time.

My Mini City

My Mini City is a site where you can build your own miniature city, oddly enough. Name your city, and watch it grow. Every time someone goes to your city’s page, your population grows. As your population grows so does your city.

You Fail

If you want to go to a site with a catchy theme song and a clear message, this is for you. This site seems as though it was designed to send as an insult to your friends, and it accomplishes its job very well. You Fail is only one page with three bold red letter words set to music. (Note: I am not to be held accountable for loss of friendship.)

Bee Dogs

This site contains various pictures of dogs in bee costumes. Yes, this sight is completely random and off-the-wall, but aren’t they just soo cute. If you love dogs, and you love bee costumes, and you love dogs in bee costumes you will probably really love this sight.

Huge Numbers

This site, like You Fail, is only one page, but unlike You Fail, this site contains one number. It is definitely for all those people on a quest to see really huge numbers. We could all use a site like this…or maybe not!

I Has A Bucket

Another unique page, this site tells the tale of a walrus and his bucket. His bucket has got taken away from him and he may have to deal with the emotional pain for the rest of his life. OK, so maybe not- but it is still a rather hilarious site. Facebook linkage included.

IGod

This site is designed so you can repent to, make fun of or ask questions of god. This site is actually hilarious and is a great time waster, with many clever words and phrases. Do your self a favor and go to this site. Repenting made easy.

Digits of Pi Song

That’s right! With this site, your persistent dream to hear the pi song has become a reality. What do you MEAN you never thought about pi as being a song before? Well, no matter, in any case here it is. Can you sing all the digits of pi with this catchy melody?

Can you Tell the Difference?

This site claims that you will confuse the items on the page. Go ahead then, take the strangest multiple choice test in the world!

Pikachizer

Yes, now you can understand the language spoken by everyone’s favorite Pokemon. Just type in the word or phrase you want pikachized - and “blamo” you now know how to say it in Pikachu.

This Peanut Looks Like a Duck

This site is exactly that — a picture of a peanut that looks like a duck. It may be the most useless site I have come across so far. I think it’s brilliant.

Super Bad

superbad.com is probably the most insane, useless but entertaining way to spend 5-10 minutes of your life. Its all a bunch of links through pages with trippy images that make no sense at all. It can only be described by me as a maze of mental retardation.

(Btw, it was made years before the movie was produced. I have yet to see the film but if there is any connection, the website was the original)

Old Timey Boxer Riverdancing

It slays me

ZOMBO

This is Zombo com, welcome to Zombo com, you can do anything here Zombo com, yes, this is Zombo  com!! …… This is Zombo com, welcome to Zombo com, you can do anything here Zombo com, yes, this is Zombo com!! ……

Is It Christmas?

Whole website only one word:  NO

Can’t wait to see ‘yes’ next christmas…….

most useless sites ever…

written by Pinewood Design \\ tags: 10, Bored, pointless, time, useless, Websites

My guess is each webmaster or blogger use at least one web service to keep track & monitor web traffics. There are tones of free web traffic checkers out there, each a unique of its own. Most of them have something in common though; installation of script is required to generate traffic reports. Installing too many tends to slow the site down and cause inaccuracy in overall results. It’s better to stick with one or two which matches your requirements the most. Here’s by far 14 most used web statistics tools I’ve come to known.

AWStats

AWStats is probably one of the few good ones that don’t require client side script installation. It’s installed on the server side and provides comprehensive logs of traffics accessing particular websites. It’s free and if your web host doesn’t have, request them to install.

StatsCounter

StatCounter is widely used among most tech non-savvy web owners. It gives real time statistics of your web traffic but the drawback of it is, you will need to pay if your traffics exceed 1,500,000 pagviews a month. Well, if you have that much of traffic you wouldn’t mind paying to continue don’t you?

SiteMeter

SiteMeter is another very popular traffic tracking provider. It’s used by a lot of notable websites such as lifehacker, read/write web, gawker, gizmodo, kotaku, etc. And like StatsCounter provides 2 different charges of services; the free and the paid premium. Free services get all basic statistics a webmaster could possibly need but in case you want more comprehensive analysis on your traffics, you will need to get the premium account.

Google Analytics

This is perhaps the most commonly used and most famous web traffic tractor every build. It’s free with functions I’ll take me pages to describe. Google Analytics gives very accurate statistics on not only traffics but also keep track of almost everything a cookie can store (browsers, type of OS, plugins installed, etc) on each unique visitors. It is also used to keep track of Google Adwords performance. And with the new look recently upgraded, it’s certainly better in terms user friendliness and navigations.

FeedBurner

What makes Feedburner different from the rest is that it keeps track of traffic coming from feed readers. Feedburner users can show off how many people are currently subscribing to them by displaying a chiklet on websites. Feedburner’s FAN is also the only traffic counter that offers publishers to make a profit from their traffic. With the recent acquisition of Feedburner by Google, it could have just helped Google to strengthen their domination on traffic counter. Google AdSense on Feedburner is what many AdSense publishers looking forward to see after this acquisition.

103Bees

103bees started off earlier this year but already gain much reputation because they are one among few that concentrates on search engine traffic analyzation. It is one of my favorite tool to measure and check my daily traffic. Check out my reviews on 103bees.

Performancing Metrics

Performancing gives you real time readings of your web traffics however if you want to use it for free for long run, your pageviews/day must not exceed 1000. Upon sign up, Performancing gives you 21days full premium access, after that you will have to pay ($2/month) to continue. If you have high traffic, try using Performancing metrics. If your traffics are among the Top 20, you will earn yourself a PR7 link back from Performancing.com main page.

Reinvigorate

I feel in love with reinvigorate the first time I encounter it. ReInvigorate has nice interface design with traffic charts nicely placed. It makes charts very understandable, very easy for comparison and analysis. However, it’s currently a beta and only available through invitations. Send in a e-mail and let’s hope they will send you an invitation to try it out.

Spotplex

Spotplex shows you not only real time traffic stats, but also how you rank among bloggers of your niche that use Spotplex plugin. Head over to Spotplex website to check the most popular articles of the day, most popular within specific niche or your Spotplex rank today.

WordPress.com Stats

WordPress.com Stats calculates your traffic within Wordpress. However Automattic Statistics resides on Wordpress.com’s Dashboard. After installing the plugin, there will be an extra button call Blog Stats that will lead you to your statistics in Wordpress.com.

OneStats

By putting one small OneStats banner on your website, you not only get to see your web traffic but also get to compete against websites from your country in the OneStats chart. OneStats chart is a very good place to gain publicity and its monitor by many webmasters. It’s ranked based on pageviews so it’s a bit unfair as forums and photo albums have a higher pageview rate.

Counterized II for Wordpress

Counterize II upgrades from its previous version to give more traffic data. It embedded inside your Wordpress Dashboard, giving you traffic information like IP, timestamp, visited URI, referring URI, total hits, unique hits, etc. All you need to do is install the plugin and view your stats inside Dashboard.

Counterize II upgrades from its previous version to give more traffic data. It embedded inside your Wordpress Dashboard, giving you traffic information like IP, timestamp, visited URI, referring URI, total hits, unique hits, etc. All you need to do is install the plugin and view your stats inside Dashboard.

MyBlogLog

MyBlogLog stats shows you where your visitors come from, what they read and where they go, but the most interesting thing about MBL is, it includes the statistics of Google AdSense clicked and their sizes.

CrazyEgg

CrazyEgg tells you where in your page people are likely to click and the most interesting part is, it gives you a heat map display. Install and test it out yourself.

GoStats

GoStats provides not only the normal stats we want to see, it also comes with a prediction figure. The tab navigation from text view to graphic view comes simply in handy. Another good visitors tracking system worth checking out.

XiTi Free

XiTi Free offers the basic indicators you need to give you a global view of your site’s traffic. Personal pages, blogs, association sites, webzines. Already used by over 200,000 sites, this version gives you the reliability and credibility of XiTi, recognized as a trusted third-party service. Best thing is No limits on the number of pages audited.

written by Pinewood Design \\ tags: counter, metrics, statistics, stats, track, traffic, web, Website

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