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On-site analytics
We've got two great new features launching today, after nearly 4 months of development: heatmaps, and on-site analytics.
On-site analytics is a new feature that embeds a widget on the bottom right corner of your web site automatically to view information about your visitors who are on your web site right now. Don't worry, only you (the site owner) can see it — but if you want to disable it, you can do so on your user preferences page.
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Heatmaps
We've got two great new features launching today, after nearly 4 months of development: heatmaps, and on-site analytics.
Here's an example of a heatmap report, after the new tracking code has been live on our site for a couple of hours:
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History of Spy (also: ZeroMQ)
This post is written by Alexander, hacker extraordinaire, who rewrote the Spy backend from scratch. Next time you're in Portland, kindly buy him a beer.
Clicky is almost 6 years old and hence was one of the first real-time web analytics platforms. Spy is an important part of that offering. Spy allows you to glimpse important information about active visitors on your website, as that information flows out of your visitors' browsers and into our system.
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We're moving!
This Saturday, August 4, from approximately 2pm to 5pm PST (GMT -0700), our web site will be offline while we move our servers to a new data center in downtown Portland.
We have carefully planned this over the last 3 weeks to ensure that tracking will still be online during this time (no data will be lost and there will be no impact on your site's performance), and that the move itself will be as fast as humanly possible. The new data center is already pre-railed and pre-wired with power and ethernet, so de-racking and re-racking will be extremely fast. So why will it take ~3 hours? Well, the old data center is about 90 miles away... 🙁
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New custom data report
If you log custom data with Clicky, you're probably going to like this new set of features. If you're not logging custom data, you should — it's one of our best features.
Up until yesterday, for our own reports on getclicky.com we have only been logging usernames of those of you logged in to our site. This adds a lot of personality to the visitor reports. But a lot of you log a lot more types of data such as shopping cart information, account status, things like that. I've been wanting to add summary reports for this custom data for quite a while, not only for you, but also because there were other types of data we were interested in seeing about who is using our service on a day to day basis. There wasn't much point though since there was no way to see a summary of it. But now there is!