We updated our site with this security patch – https://blog.cloudflare.com/yet-another-padding-oracle-in-openssl-cbc-ciphersuites/. Other webmasters may want to run the free Qualys SSL scanning tool to check their grades – https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html. Users can also check out their most common websites as well (proud to say RunSignUp beat…
This year’s RunSignUp Race Director/Timer Symposium will have dual tracks (you can switch between tracks throughout the day) to allow for more targeted content for both experienced directors, and those newer to the industry. One for those for our newer Race Directors (or those…
We are seeing a trend of relay races – from marathon distances to multi-day 300+ miles – requesting to load their events into RaceJoy so that they can offer live runner tracking and cheers to their participants and spectators. RaceJoy provides interactive,…
Over this last weekend, runners and cyclists around the country used RaceJoy to add to their race day experience. We had race participants use RaceJoy’s live GPS tracking, progress alerts and cheer sending in 13 races – from 5Ks to multi day…
The Shipyard Maine Coast Marathon will be held this weekend, Friday, May 13th through Sunday, May 15th, at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. The race offers a variety of course options, including a marathon, a half marathon, a half marathon relay…
A couple of years ago Rich Friedman, Stephen Sigwart and I (Bob Bickel) spun off a technology company called RedLine13 from RunSignUp. We felt we had developed a couple of cool pieces of technology that a broader community would be interested in…
A security hole was reported in ImageMagic, a tool that many websites including RunSignUp use for image resizing and processing. We learned of this issue yesterday and have updated the site with fixes last night. We did not detect any breaches as a result of…
At this point, you’re almost a Google Analytics and RunSignup expert. You’ve read about the basics of RunSignUp and Google Analytics, and you’ve configured your website and RunSignUp to support cross domain tracking. However, rather than linking to RunSignup for registration, you are taking advantage of…
So you’ve read about RunSignUp and Google Analytics and you realize how helpful it can be to track the web traffic related to your event. You’ve added your Google Analytics information to your RunSignUp race but you’ve got your own race website and are…
Google Analytics is a free web-tracking tool, which allows owners of websites to gatherinformation about their visitors. Google Analytics is able to provide a whole host of information about a website’s traffic, everything from the number of page views and conversions, to…