Online-Stopwatch
A BIG Thank you to everyone who has linked to online-stopwatch!
Hopefully, you found what you wanted on the very first page, a nice easy to use online stopwatch, or countdown timer.
We hope that's what you were looking for, because that's all this site really has. Sure you can now get the
stopwatch / countdown as a "Gadget" for Google, live, and vista, but really, it's still just one thing.
We've been watching how this site is spreading around the internet... and it’s great to see just who is using this site…
We have links from schools, links from blogs, and recently, backlinks where people have added the gadget to their homepages…
If you do find this site useful, tell your friends! Give us a link; it will help us so much get to the top of the search engines. :- )
Thanks to everyone for using, and thanks for all the links
Need to contact online-stopwatch.com?
Have an idea? Can think of some way to make the site better? Want somthing extra? Or just want to say Hi! Please email us, we love to hear from people who decided to search the internet for a stopwatch :-)
We do not give anyone your email! Read more here
News (16/03/08):
Hi everyone
We’ve added a few new countdowns today – just a few new designs. There’re “not perfect” visually. We’ll change them soon; make them look more clean, shiny and new. Feel free to use them. The timers in them work fine.
We’ve also added a split/lap version of the standard stopwatch. This is requested quite often, so we thought we’d add it.
Thanks for all the emails again! They help us keep making the site better – and giving you what you want for free ;-)
p.s, does anyone else think the website is starting to look cluttered? The extra row of buttons make it too big for your screen? Do you think we need a new design? A forum? Some help guides? What you think?
Cheers all!
News (03/02/08):
Sorry for such a long wait for a news update. First, hope everyone had a great new year -- i know it seems a long time ago. :-)
We've had some great emails the past few weeks - we will get back to everyone. Thanks for taking the time to email us.
We've made a few changes to the stopwatch itself, and split the online countdown out, to make it even easier if thats all you are looking for.
Thanks to everyone who reported the bugs that appeared over the weekend -- we did an updated, and everything is all good now.
Someone will do a better update soon :)
Regards.
News (13/12/07):
We would just like to wish all of our visitors Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year!!!
Take care.
News (16/10/07):
Hi Everyone!
I’ve noticed that most of the news we’ve been posting has been about STATS! Let’s have a look at some of the emails we’ve been getting.
First, thanks to everyone who has emailed us! It’s great that you’ve spent the time doing it.
Most of the emails are feature requests…
Lap/split feature for the stopwatch. – This is going to be on a separate “Advanced page”
MySpace Gadget – I cannot believe we didn’t think about this!
Some sound at the end of the countdown – Done!
Hundreds of a second 00:00:00:000 – Done!
Cell Phone / Mobile Phone Version – Great idea, and we’re going to try and do it.
Command Line Parameter – Too advanced? No, it’s something we want to add.
Multiple Alarms – I like the idea, but the others say no :-(
Volume Control – same as above :-(
Skins – Maybe add this to the personal versions you can add to your igoogle/myspace/etc
The thing most people really like about online-stopwatch.com – the fact it can be used Full screen.
The most common problem – the Google Gadget and the Vista Gadget!
So what are we doing right now? – We really want to get the new features added soon, most shouldn’t take too long. But right now, we’re trying to save money up to get someone to make us a better Google Gadget, and a better Vista Gadget. We’ll keep you updated.
Thanks for reading this news by the way :-)
All the best.
News (11/10/07):
Can you believe it! Today, online-stopwatch.com got 10,028 page views!! WOW!! (6,736 unique visitors)
Thanks to everyone using the site.
Many Thanks .
News (18/09/07):
Today we got 5,031 Unique Visitors!! That’s 7,416 Hits. Well Done guys! Everyone is really helping to get the site popular!
We don’t think the site can get much bigger then it is now. Really, how many people need an online stopwatch each day? (It seems a lot, but there must be a limit?)
Online Stopwatch also got an Alexa Rank this week. “Basically” the rank tells you how popular a site is. So, Online-stopwatch.com is the 356,79543th most visited website on the internet. :-)
I’m sure we’ll win back our No.1 Google spot eventually…
Thanks again to everyone who’s linked to us, used the site, bookmarked, and told their friends :-)
Cheers.
News (14/09/07):
We’re just testing a new version of the online stopwatch – its stopwatch timer.
Basically, it’s the same as the old stopwatch, but this one will remember your time, even if you close the browser window. So you can start a stopwatch or a countdown, close the window, come back and it will still work.
It’s still being tested at the moment, if you want to give it a go, (and if you find any bugs), let us know what you think.
It is replacing the Google stopwatch gadget very soon, as they often leave their homepage, and need the clock to remember what it was before they left.
Also, there has been a bit of a change around on the index. The main page no longer links to Full Screen Stopwatch – Although the page will still exist, so you’re Backlinks and your favourites will continue to work. The homepage now links to Large Stopwatch. (More people look for a “large stopwatch” each month, so we’re just helping more people find the site.
Many thanks.
News (11/09/07):
Just in case anyone wanted to see some of the terms people use to find online stopwatch:
I'm sure we'll win back our No.1 Spot on Goole eventually. ;-)
News (8/09/07):
For some strange reason, online-stopwatch has dropped to No.2 on Google for "Stopwatch" now, it's very strange, but never mind -- our visitors are still going up. (We nearly had 5000 unique’s yesterday, but until we hit the big 5k we wont celebrate) :-)
News (28/08/07):
Hello again from Online stopwatch! Although nothing has changed on the site for the passed month, we have not forgotten about the features our visitors want. We have a BIG list now, thanks to everyone who asked us to add something!
Yesterday was a great milestone for Online Stopwatch… We managed to get 3291 Unique Visitors! Who would have thought so many people would need a stopwatch! That’s 4,791 clicks on the site. It’s great to look back to last year, and see the “Big News” was that 396 unique people visited. :-)
It’s also great to see that, apart from ranking Number 1 for “Online Stopwatch” on Google, we now rank Number 2 for just “Stopwatch”
Thanks to everyone who uses the site, and especially to everyone who has linked to us! Maybe one day we’ll be Number 1 on Google for “Stopwatch” ;-)
Many thanks!
News (15/08/07):
Quick update: We think we've got back to everyone who emailed us now. Sorry for the delay, our email has been down for the past few weeks, but now its all working again :-)
We’ve had some great emails, mainly just saying thanks for the stopwatch – we’ve also had lots of feature requests, but some of the best (funniest?) emails we’ve had to reply to are people asking for money, because we must be making loads with online-stopwatch.com. :-)
Can we just say, that it’s only recently that we’ve had any ads on the site – and now there is only one, and it earns just enough to actually pay for the sites hosting. No big money for running online-stopwatch. All we get out of it - is seeing how many people use the site. Maybe in the next “News” update, we’ll post some graphs and info if anyone is interested.
Thanks for reading :-)
News (16/07/07):
Online stopwatch Has been put on-hold at the moment :-( Don’t worry, we are not taking the site down, it just means the new features that we have made will not be on the site for another month. We also put an advert to the front page today – it will not be on any other page. Hopefully this will not effect the way you use online stopwatch. You can still use the full screen version in classrooms and meetings. If you really don’t like the ad, let us know! Anyway, next update WILL be the release of the new features everyone has been requesting. All the best, Online stopwatch
News (11/06/07):
Online stopwatch are still having problems with our email, we are still sorry that they have not been replied to. :-(
The stopwatch and our server is still working great :-)
We'll try and email everyone ASAP.
Cheers.
News (19/05/07):
Online stopwatch would just like to say a big "SORRY" to everyone who has emailed us in the last 19 days -- we have had so many emails. We have read them all, but have had little time to reply. Everyone WILL get a reply, but not for another week :-(
Work is still being carried out to offer everyone the new stopwatch and countdown features they want (many of the emails we have received have been feature requests), it's just taking longer then we thought it would.
The site is still getting more visitors each day, with an average of 1400 unique visitors a day now.
A new update to this blog, and all emails will be replied to over the next few weeks, and the new stopwatch / countdown software features will also become available.
Thanks to everyone for their support – for the emails, the backlinks, and for using the stopwatch.
Regards.
All the best ;-)
News (01/05/07):
A new month -- a new goal for online stopwatch :-)
Just today, online-stopwatch.com has been given a Google PageRank(PR) of 4. What does it mean? Nothing. What will it do? Nothing. Google themselves have said that people should not worry about what PR a site has. However it is a BIG deal in the "webmaster" community, with everyone trying to get as high as they can.
I see this as a great achievement for such a small site, and it's all thanks to you guys for using the site, and putting links to us on your forums/webpages/blogs.
Thanks again for all your support.
I'll be sure you to let you know as soon as we get a PR 5 :-)
All the best ;-)
News (24/04/07):
Today has been a great day for online-stopwatch!
An amazing 1680 (unique) people have visited the site today! That’s over 400 people more then most days. Great!
It’s like there has been a craze for finding online stopwatch today :-)
The stopwatch is going to be updated soon. It will look the same, but it will have a few more features. What new features does a stopwatch need I hear you cry! Well, we get sooo many emails with new ideas, it’s fantastic! It will be updated over the next few weeks, if anyone has any other ideas they would like to see added, please email us.
Regards. ;-)
News (23/03/07):
We have just received our highest number of visitors to date! 1,313 unique people visited online-stopwatch.com yesterday! Wow! That is an amazing number of people who needed a stopwatch :-)
Apart from the visitors we also received some nice emails. Thank you to everyone who has emailed us, we do reply to everyone, it could just take some time. Some of your ideas are great, and your stories why you needed the stopwatch are fantastic.
We also noticed that our gadgets have been getting some mixed “comments” until yesterday; we didn’t know people could leave comments on the Google gadget website, or the Microsoft live site. Some of the suggestions on those sites will be added ASAP – don’t be afraid to email us and ask for requests, we are happy to help.
Thanks to everyone giving us links and telling your friends, it’s really helping people find a decent web based stopwatch.
All the best.
News (26/02/07):
Yay!! Today online-stopwatch.com rates No.2 on google. This is great news :-)
I'm sure we'll be No.1 soon enough. (We are No.1 on MSN, and No.8 on Yahoo)
Thanks to everyone who uses this site.
News (12/02/07):
Everyone with Windows Vista can now get the “online stopwatch” Vista Stopwatch Sidebar Gadget!
This new gadget is different to our sites usual design, it’s small, and black, and the navigation is altered. If you use Vista, it’s a great sidebar add on.
Thanks to everyone who helped with the making of this version.
News (04/02/07):
Today we got added to the "Live.com" Gadgets site :-) Link: Live Stopwatch Gadget :-)
This is great, so now we offer a gadget to the Google Homepage users, and Live.com Homepage users. (Google gave us a hat, a t-shirt, and a pen when we got accepted, microsoft gave us a nice thankyou email :-)
News (01/02/07):
Bit of a change today -- if you've visited online stopwatch before, you will notice that we have changed the links under the stopwatch. The reason? We think they look better :-) They roll over and pop-up. How cool is that? We think they make the site look a little cleaner too.
We have also added an alarm sound on the countdown timer! Thanks for all the emails for the suggestion. If it’s not what you had in mind, please let us know, and we will change it.
More good news? We have just had our highest number of visitors. 746 unique people visited online-stopwatch.com today. This is a massive jump! It could be down to that we now rank 3rd on Google for “Online Stopwatch”
Thanks to everyone who is using online-stopwatch.com – and if you like it, please tell your friends :-)
News (21/12/06):
Ho! Ho! Ho! Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to Everyone!
We have had a lot of requests to add a "sound" to the stopwatch, so that is what we are working on right now. **(Thanks to everyone who took the time to email us, we really appreciate knowing you are using the stopwatch and have ideas for it)**
There isnt much else to say really. We have moved from 10th place on google to 9th -- this is good news, always trying to reach that no.1 spot. Apart from that, we wish everyone health, wealth, and happiness in the new year!
News (27/11/06):
Wow! Either lots of kind people have given us a backlink in the last few days, or switching to CSS really has made a big difference, because today we rank 10th on google for "online stopwatch" -- that puts us on the first page. Thanks everyone!
Search results for "Online Stopwatch"
Google: 10th
MSN: 1st (yay)
Yahoo: 51
Other sites that link to us: 445
News (23/11/06):
A big change happened to online stopwatch today, and hopefully nobody noticed. The site has been changed from using html tables, to using CSS. This should help the site in search engine results.
(Just incase anyone wants to know, we currently rank 55th on google :-)
News (07/11/06):
The highest number of visitors yet! 396 people visited online-stopwatch.com today! (and 156 of them came back again within 15mins) Good news indeed!!!
News (01/11/06):
Google have now given online-stopwatch.com a "PageRank" of 3 -- which is good, because before the latest update, it was 0. The score is out of 10, so although we are still quite low, its a good start.
News (08/10/06):
www.online-stopwatch.com added a "Google Stopwatch Gadget" today, which basicly means that people can add the stopwatch/countdown timer from the site onto their own homepages, and blogs, and websites, and myspace, and...
News (08/07/06):
www.online-stopwatch.com is setup! yay! I needed to time a presentation for work, but didnt like the built in timer in PowerPoint, so thought i'd setup the site to help others. Is there any use for a website with one feature, that most people have built into their watches? we'll see...