Statcounter Founder is a Winner!
I just received an interesting press release and this is just a quick post to say congratulations to Aodhan Cullen, founder of StatCounter for winning the BusinessWeek Young European Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Most Irish web designers and developers would know of StatCounter and probably use the code on their sites but it is amazing to see them doing so well on the world stage. Well done Aodhan, it’s great to see a young Irish fellow doing so well! Below is the full press release I received.
Irishman named as Young European Entrepreneur of the Year
- StatCounter founder is Businessweek Top Under 25 European EntrepreneurDublin; Thursday, 19th July, 2007: Dublin born Aodhan Cullen, founder of Irish headquartered StatCounter, has been named as the Businessweek Young European Entrepreneur of the Year. StatCounter, which provides free web site traffic statistics, has 1.4m members 40% of which are located in the US. 24 year old Aodhan Cullen started the business when he was 16.
StatCounter provides a free service which allows members monitor the number of hits to their website; the geographical location of visitors; the various pages a visitor views; keywords used to find the site plus other features.
Businessweek.com reports that the global web analytics market is growing rapidly following the aftermath of the dotcom boom. It quotes Bill Gassman, a research director specialising in web analytics at tech consultancy, Gartner who says that the market is ‘exploding again’. The $400m market is expected to more than double in size by next year.
“I would like to thank Businessweek and those who selected me,†commented Aodhan Cullen. “This is not really an award for me but recognises our members who have helped us to build one of the most popular web analytical services and web sites in the world.â€
Cullen, a graduate in 2004 of DCU, was always interested in running a business. At the age of 12 he set up a business typing CVs. He then got into developing web sites. From here the idea for StatCounter was born. “Clients kept saying to me ‘the site is great Aodhan but is anyone actually visiting it?’†It was this experience that sowed the seeds of StatCounter.Growth took off from 2003. StatCounter is attracting 1,500 new members each day. It currently tracks over 9 billion pageloads per month across its network of over 2 million web sites.
In the last month StatCounter has set up headquarters under the Dublin Business Innovation Centre (DBIC) umbrella in the Guinness Enterprise Centre in Dublin. It currently employs six people.
Alexa, an Amazon web information company, recently named StatCounter as one of the most visited sites in the US ahead of household names like Apple, Adobe, Dell and Expedia.com.
StatCounter has reached the Holy Grail in terms of web sites in that it is ranked as a Google PageRank 9/10 site. Google PageRank, which was developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, is the number of points out of ten that signifies the importance of a site to Google – 10 being the most popular and 0 the least. PageRank 9/10 sites include Google itself, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Cisco, NASA and the White House.
As well as its existing free summary lifetime statistics, StatCounter recently extended the detailed drill down information which users can track on visitors from the last 100 logs to 500. Members can upgrade from the free service to more detailed reports for €7 per month.
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