Aodhan Cullen, the founder and owner of Statcounter.com was recently voted as BusinessWeek’s young entrepreneur of the year.The 24-year-old Irishman began his “career” when he was just 12-years-old,Then, as a teenager, he began designing Web pages for paying clients, who often wanted to know how many people were visiting their sites and so Statcounter.com was borned.
I have used Statcounter before on one of my sites and it’s really a fantastic service, and did you know that Statcounter actually had a PageRank of 10!, although now the site is showing a PR of 9 after the last April update.It’s no suprise i guess that the site attained PR 10 considering that their service is used by around 1.3 million webmasters and bloggers to track over 9 billion pageviews or hits a month and some of whom actually linkback to Statcounter with either a text link or a fancy chicklet, just think..”some” out of 1.3 million users, that’s pretty huge.
An exceprt from the BusinessWeek article:
That turned out to be a smart move for the young Irishman, now 24. Web analytics, a field which grew rapidly doing the dot-com boom and then fell out of favor, is “exploding again,” says Bill Gassman, a research director specializing in Web analytics at tech consultancy Gartner (IT). It’s already a $400 million market, and analysts expect it to more than double in size by next year. Big players in the field, such as Omniture (OMTR), in Orem, Utah, are growing at more than 50% year over year.
Congrats to Aodhan Cullen
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