Glassdoor, company which collects information about employees in different companies anonymously and voluntarily, presented a report saying that people working in Facebook are not only paid more but also the social network offers a better work environment.
Here’s the rating for most important companies salaries in the software engineer category:
Google offers an average annual salary of $98K and Facebook for the same jobs is giving $110K, making this the most important salary around all companies; Cisco, Yahoo and Apple appears right after Facebook.
But that’s not all, work climate is an important factor in every job; and Facebook makes a difference in this area as well.
Based upon a 5-point scale, Facebook scores 4.6 as the top company in work environment; Google appears third with 3.9 (AOL and Apple appear fourth and fifth). And, surprisingly or not, HP offers the “worst” work climate raked with 2.7.
Gomez is a company that created the “Mobile Readiness Test” which evaluates and rates your site in a mobile environment. The test is incredibly complete and free, but it requires you to use a registration before running the test.
The usability for smart phones has increased enormously in the last few years, making the mobile market a far more lucrative and where, of course, companies keep investing. That’s why offering our web site stable and with a nice presentation in every environment is a key factor.
Gomez test provides a test where we can rate our sites in different factors like:
- Page weight.
- Readiness Compliance Test.
- Character encoding.
- Caching.
- Page size limit.
- Pop-up windows.
- Etc.
We receive also a “Test Summary”, with all the warnings, fails and comments about the test.
Social media for the promotion of blog posts and other online material has really taken off in the past two years. Perhaps the most famous (and notorious for crashing websites) is Digg.com – launched a few years back with funding of just $40 million and is now the world’s leading social media promotion website. That is of course, if you only look at sites aiming to promote content alone.
Twitter on the other hand has become a social media promotion tool and a social network – a devilish combination. Because of this, Twitter passed Digg’s traffic rating back in March and is continuing to climb despite periods of stagnation in terms of traffic. Digg however, is falling. Since September, a 15% drop in traffic is indicated by the ComScore graph above and we haven’t even seen the results for December yet.
As the war between Facebook and Twitter calms down could we be now seeing Digg trying to take on Twitter in a no-holds-barred?
