1. Quality is better than Quantity

This tip can be put in several contexts. Content wise, if you have thousands of pages essentially saying “I’m great” in thousands of ways you have wasted your time creating them. Instead make a single easy to find page, which engages the user quickly and gets to the point.

Traffic wise, it’s better to have a small audience which engages with your content (or will pay for it) then a large audience who do not engage with your content and end up just increasing server costs. A notable example of a Company which has decided to focus on serving the 10% of their audience who will pay for content is News Corp.

2. Start Small

When you start you may want to do everything under the sun. Unfortunately in most cases this leads to websites stalling in development. For example many websites spend years “Under Construction” and when they are finally released their product or service is outdated or uncompetitive.

3. Focus on your Niche

Don’t try to be everything, otherwise your resources to provide a good product will too stretched. Instead focus on what you are interested in or what you are good at; your content will reflect this.

4. Test your website

I really cannot stress this enough. Having a website which is visually displeasing or fails to work will affect your long term performance. Make sure you check your website works in as many browsers as you can and if possible, get a friend to take a look at it.

You may find it useful to visit WebPagesThatSuck.com, for ideas on what not to do while making a website.

5. Be Creative

Do something unique, no one wants to see another knock off of Facebook or YouTube. Have something which is a solution to a problem on the internet. For example, Twitter stopped the need for people to post one line blog posts.

IE6 is dying slowly; maybe it’s time we drop support for it.

Biggest Rise: Other (2.29%)
Biggest Fall: Safari (-2.45%)  Possibly due to new version of Safari, or that a hacker said Apple Safari is ‘easy pickings’.

OS Statistics

WinXP is still a very dominant. Maybe Windows 7 will be its downfall.

Biggest Rise: Mac (0.9%)
Biggest Fall: WinXP (-0.51%)

Internet Penetration

Latin America/Caribbean internet penetration has grown by 4.5%

Internet Usage

Asians seem to have a high internet usage and is expect to grow even more!

Related Links

W3C Browser Information
Global Market Share Statistics
Internet Traffic Report
The ISC Domain Survey

*This data is an average from approximately 25 differently sources (Some listed above). Feel free to use the graphs and pie charts; however a link back would be appreciated.

FF (33.27%) and IE7 (36.51%) are almost equal in market share.

Biggest Rise: Safari (1.46%)
Biggest Fall: FF (-1.81%), but closely followed by IE6 (-1.18%).

OS Statistics

WinXP is still a very dominant OS even though it had a -1.53% fall.

Biggest Rise: Vista (1.13%)
Biggest Fall: WinXP (-1.53%)

Internet Penetration

North America currently has the largest penetration percentage (73.6%)

Internet Usage

Asia currently has the highest internet usage.