This is the September 2014 release of browser and OS stats for www.radionz.co.nz and The Wireless. Overall, the Chrome browser is increasing its market share, and the shift from desktop to mobile continues. Windows has dropped to under 50%.Browsers Browser 09/2014 03/2014 11/2013 06/2012 11/2011 11/2010 11/2009 11/2008 Chrome 30.8 25.23 23.7 14.6 13.8 8.75 4.2 1.47 IE… Continue reading Radio NZ Browser and OS stats for September 2014

This short post shows how news events impact website traffic on radionz.co.nz, and how we handle it technically. On 18 August Guyon Espiner interviewed the Prime Minister about the claims in the book Dirty Politics. Within 10 minutes of the interview airing and being posted on the site traffic jumped to nearly twice normal levels, and… Continue reading How news events impact web traffic

I have evaluated dozens of content management systems over the last 20 years, as well have having built several myself. The answer to the question, do we have the right CMS, is almost always going to be no. It is no because your business will always be changing, and there will be a gap between… Continue reading Do you have the right CMS?

I have just published a Google doc of eight years of Operating System, Browser and Mobile data for http://www.radionz.co.nz. I have also included a couple of graphs such as this one showing the decline of desktop use (click to see a larger version). There are other interesting trends – the decline of IE, the decline of… Continue reading 8 years of data

I’ve found it handy during the development of responsive CSS to know what stylesheet or media query is active. The following is an example of how to dynamically add labels to a page. @media screen and (max-width:600px) { .site-time p::after { content:” (0-600px)”; }}@media (min-width: 601px) and (max-width: 800px) { .site-time p::after { content:” (601-800px)”; }}… Continue reading A visual aid to show you which media query is active

Here is another lot of browser and OS stats for www.radionz.co.nz and The Wireless. Size of Content Library The audio library now contains 27,000 hours of material, all of it searchable from www.radionz.co.nz/audio. That is 179,000 items, most of which are downloadable and embeddable. We also just partnered with DigitalNZ who now have a copy of most of our audio metadata,… Continue reading Radio NZ Browser Stats – March 2014

Here it is once again – my roundup of browser and OS stats for www.radionz.co.nz. This time I’m including stats from The Wireless. Size of Content Library The audio library now contains 25,000 hours of material, all of it searchable from www.radionz.co.nz/audio. That is 167,000 items, most of which are downloadable and embeddable. Browsers Browser 11/2013 06/2012 11/2011… Continue reading November 2013 Browser Stats for Radio NZ

At Radio NZ we engage outside contractors to help us build the web applications we use. The most public of these apps is our website, and internally there is a large database system that is used company-wide. One of the challenges of writing code is that over time the codebase tends to become rundown. This can be… Continue reading Why you should allow time (and pay) for refactoring of code

After three years of work, the new Radio New Zealand website is about to go now live. As well as a new design, we built a new content management system to handle our publishing requirements. Starting from the inside out, this is what our technology stack looks like. The Hardware We have eight HP servers, all with 8-core… Continue reading The New Radio New Zealand Website

As anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock for the last few years will know, there has been an explosion of the use of mobile computing devices over the last few years. At Radio New Zealand we’ve seen the percentage of mobiles devices accessing our website increase dramatically in the last 12 months. One… Continue reading Radio NZ stats February 2013