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New option to anonymize IP addresses
We just added a new site preference to log IP addresses anonymously, which takes the last octet and changes it to 0. For example, 123.123.123.123 would become 123.123.123.0. And we're not just hiding the last octet from you — we remove it before storing it, so it should comply with laws in places like Germany where it's technically illegal to log the full IP address of a visitor.
This preference is available to all users. You can find it in your site preferences, under "advanced".
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Major updates to alerts, goals, and spy
We've been working on a gigantic update to alerts, goals, and spy, and here it finally is. The most major update is to alerts, so we're pulling that out of the blackhole that is your site preferences and putting it front and center.
So what's new? Here's what the alert setup page looks like now, which should give you a nice overview of everything that's new:
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PDF email reports!
Now that we ditched Flash, we can make our email reports a bit more exciting by making them look exactly like our web site. If you edit an existing report or go create a new one, there are now checkboxes to choose the format(s) you want, which can be any combination of plain text, HTML, and/or PDF.
A PDF report for any site is essentially an export of that site's dashboard. We chose to do this rather than the specific data types you selected for the report because the point here is to make the report look like our web site — including the new graphs. Your dashboard is meant to be your one stop customizable overview of your site's traffic, so it makes sense to use it for the PDF report. The data type options in the email report interface (which are still available, and still used in the text/html versions) are there because we used them to create a new display of your site's data designed for email. Now that we can just use a replica of our web site, that's what we're doing with the PDFs.
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No more Flash!
We have converted to a native graphing library (Highcharts) that works on almost every platform, including iPhone and iPad. It loads faster and it looks good. The graphs look and feel the same as the old ones, so other than the fact that they will now work on your non-Flash devices, you can barely tell the difference:
Bonus: this will finally allow us to send PDF email reports. In fact, those have been under development for about a week now, alongside this. They're almost done… we were planning to release them at the same time but a few last minute issues dashed those hopes. Tomorrow, perhaps.
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Big screen mode + faster page loads
We're testing a new feature we're calling "Big screen", which is a self-updating, single page report highlighting your key metrics, designed for that giant plasma hanging on your office wall. It looks radically different from the rest of Clicky, because we felt a dark theme made more sense for this type of feature.
It grows and shrinks with your browser window, up to 1080P. Our developer also made sure it looks awesome on the iPad and iPhone — yes, including the graphs.