4 best stats plugin for WordPress

The blogging software of WordPress.org is no doubt the best blogging platform out there. It powers numerous blogs on the web. As a matter of fact the blogs at WordPress.com are all powered by the same platform. Knowing how well your blog stands in the web traffic is very important as it gives you an insight on your blogging. So it is important to install a stats plugin on your blog. In this article we will tell you about 4 very good stats plugin out there.

1. Blog Stats by W3Counter

This Plugin lets you track visits on your blog using the free web stats service from  W3Counter.com. All information is provided to you in real time and lets you have an insight into how and from where are the hits coming on to your blog. Using this plugin you can embed stats in your website or blog, create custom interfaces to view your stats and build custom reports for your company or clients. You can also Mash-up stats with other web service APIs.

2. Google Analytics

Google Analytics (GA) is one of the best stats solutions your wordpress blog traffic. It is  powerful, flexible and easy-to-use. Google Analytics prepares you to write and build better websites. Using GA you can isolate and analyze subsets of your traffic with a fast interactive segment builder. You can also uncover insights using an interactive multi-dimensional analysis tool. Integrating Google Analytics into your WordPress blog is very easy. You might like to read more about how to integrate Google Analytics into your WordPress blog.

3. WordPress.com stats Plugin

WordPress.com stats plugin is yet another stats plugin for wordpress. The best part  about this plugin is that it is simple to install and use and comes from the creators of WordPress. The interface is very soothing. The statistics are packed full with lot of information like Google keywords that brought search traffic to your blog, daily, monthly and yearly charts of the number of visitors to your blog. Another great feature of this plugin is that it doesn’t count your own visits to your blog once you are logged in as the blog author or administrator.

4. Sitemeter

Site Meter's comprehensive real time website tracking and counter tools give you instant  access to vital information and data about your sites audience and the number of pageviews you are clocking everyday. With sitemeter’s detailed reporting you'll have a clear picture of who is visiting your site, how they found you, where they came from, what interests them and much more. Sitemeter registrations are free of charge unless you opt for some of the enhanced features.

World's 1st Practical Artificial Leaf

A team at MIT has developed an artificial leaf from a set of inexpensive catalysts including nickel and cobalt, which is claimed to be 10 times as efficient as a real leaf at the photosynthesis process. Researchers expect the artificial leaf to revolutionise power storage in developing countries like India.

Claiming one of the milestones in the drive for sustainable energy, a team of scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has created the world's first practical artificial leaf that can use sunlight to break water into hydrogen and oxygen which can then be used to create electricity in a separate fuel cell. "A practical artificial leaf has been one of the Holy Grails of science for decades. We believe we have done it. And placed in a gallon of water and left in sun, these artificial leaves could provide a home in the developing world with basic electricity for a day," MIT’s Daniel Nocera, who led the research team, said.

The very first artificial leaf was created by John Turner of the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, over a decade ago, but it lasted for only one day and was made of expensive metals too, making it impractical.
"Our goal is to make each home its own power station. One can envision villages in India and Africa not long from now purchasing an affordable basic power system based on this technology," Daniel added.
For their research, the scientists identified a set of inexpensive, common catalysts including nickel and cobalt that get the job done with far less expense. And, in the laboratory their playing-card-sized leaves have worked continuously for 45 straight hours without a drop in output. However, scientists are still trying to boost both efficiency and lifespan of their photosynthetic material.
“Nature is powered by photosynthesis, and I think that the future world will be powered by photosynthesis as well in the form of this artificial leaf,” added Nocera.

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5 Universe facts

There is still so little known about outer space by modern science, but of that little we do know, there are some extraordinarily amazing things. This is a list of the top 10 cool facts about Space.

1. Lightweight

Fact: If you put Saturn in water it would float

The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float. The actual density of Saturn is 0.687 g/cm³ while the density of water is 0.998 g/cm³. At the equator Saturn has a radius of 60,268 ± 4 km – which means you would need an extremely large glass of water to test this out.

2. Constantly Moving

Fact: We are moving through space at the rate of 530km a second

Our Galaxy – the Milky Way is spinning at a rate of 225 kilometers per second. In addition, the galaxy is travelling through space at the rate of 305 kilometers per second. This means that we are traveling at a total speed of 530 kilometers (330 miles) per second. That means that in one minute you are about 19 thousand kilometers away from where you were. Scientists do not all agree on the speed with which the Milky Way is travelling – estimates range from 130 – 1,000 km/s. It should be said that Einstein’s theory of relativity, the velocity of any object through space is not meaningful.

3. Farewell old friend!

Fact: The moon is drifting away from Earth

Every year the moon moves about 3.8cm further away from the Earth. This is caused by tidal effects. Consequently, the earth is slowing in rotation by about 0.002 seconds per day per century. Scientists do not know how the moon was created, but the generally accepted theory suggests that a large Mars sized object hit the earth causing the Moon to splinter off.

4. Ancient Light

Fact: The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old

The energy in the sunlight we see today started out in the core of the Sun 30,000 years ago – it spent most of this time passing through the dense atoms that make the sun and just 8 minutes to reach us once it had left the Sun! The temperature at the core of the sun is 13,600,000 kelvins. All of the energy produced by fusion in the core must travel through many successive layers to the solar photosphere before it escapes into space as sunlight or kinetic energy of particles.

5. Solar Diet

Fact: The Sun loses up to a billion kilograms a second due to solar winds

Solar winds are charged particles that are ejected from the upper surface of the sun due to the high temperature of the corona and the high kinetic energy particles gain through a process that is not well understood at this time. Also, did you know that 1 pinhead of the sun’s energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers? [Sourced from Planet Science]

Top 10 amazing earth facts

As well known and well traveled as our planet is, there are still new things being discovered every day. In fact, most of our oceans haven’t even been explored yet which is why when new depths are located; they often come with hundreds of new species. Rain forests offer up new animals and plants as often as we can explore them. The Earth is constantly changing, shifting, and exposing new secrets for humans to marvel at. It took many years and many great minds to solve the problem of getting through Earth’s atmosphere into the wide expanse of space beyond. Here are ten amazing facts about our home that you may not be aware of.

10. The Atmosphere

Many layers of atmosphere coat our planet including the mesosphere, ionosphere, exosphere, and the thermosphere, but it’s the troposphere, closest to the planet itself, that supports our lives and is, in fact, the thinnest at only about 10 miles high.

9. Deserts

Believe it or not, most of the Earth’s deserts are not composed entirely of sand. Much, about 85% of them, are rocks and gravel. The largest, the Sahara, fills about 1/3 of Africa (and it is growing constantly) which would nearly fill the continental United States.

8. The Big Blue Marble

The Earth is, in fact, not really round. It is called an oblate spheroid meaning it’s slightly flattened on the top and bottom poles.

7. Salty Oceans

If you could evaporate all the water out of all the oceans and spread the resulting salt over all the land on Earth, you would have a five hundred-foot layer coating everything.

6. Lakes and Seas

The largest inland sea (or, sometimes called a lake) is the Caspian Sea which is on the border of Iran and Russia.