How to create custom embeddable charts with data from Google Analytics using filters

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This article will explain you how to create your own custom embeddable charts based on data from Google Analytics. We will do it with using the service Explainum.com – a free web tool to create charts.


Google Analytics is one of the most powerful tools for analyzing traffic on your website. Google Analytics gives you a lot of information about visitors of your web site.

Explainum helps you to create interactive web charts to analyze your traffic. You can create meaningful charts using such a powerful tool as filters in Google Analytics.

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Memcached Overview

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Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

Memcached is a generic purpose distributed high performance memory object caching system to use in speeding up dynamic database driven websites by caching data and objects in memory to reduce the amount the database needs to be read. Memcached was originally developed by Danga Interactive for LiveJournal but is now used by many popular and large community driven websites like Slashdot, Wikipedia, SourceForge, Facebook and like. It is being distributed under a permissive free software licence.

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Redirect from the www version of site to the non-www version

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This article describes how to make a redirect from the www version of your site to non-www version.  So, when someone types in http://www.mydomain.com – it will automatically resolve to http://www.domain-name.com.

For example, a popular site StackOverflow works as follows: when you type with www as http://www.stackoverflow.com/ – it automatically redirects you to non-www URL: http://stackoverflow.com/.

Search engines don’t automatically assume that both the ‘www’ and ‘non-www’ version of a domain are one and the same. This is why it’s important to tell the search engines which domain you prefer through using the .htaccess file.

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