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We just launched a URL shortener. Are we insane?
The last thing the world needs is another damn URL shortener. There is no money to be made in this business, yet a new one launches pretty much every day. They're all mostly the same, offering some basic analytics like how many people clicked your link, and maybe the top referrers and geolocation of these clickers.
That's all well and good but there's something lacking: you don't get any data on your visitors after they arrive at your site. And that's the data that really matters. Who cares how many people clicked if you don't know what they did when they actually got to your web site?
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Twitter Mania — the best update we've ever released
If you are a Twitter user, or at least understand the value of the data that's available from their real time search engine, this update should blow you away.
We use Twitter to heavily monitor what our competitors are saying, and what other people are saying about them. Amongst other things. You can get any search result from Twitter via RSS, which is handy, but it's just a raw stream. I've wanted to summarize this data for a while now so I had it all in one place and could easily sort through it. I'm not a fan of any of the tools currently available, so I decided to bake one right into Clicky.
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Mega Spy preview + private beta
Mega Spy has taken longer than planned to develop but I promise the wait will be worth it. We're still not quite done, but we know how eager you are, so we're releasing a beta version to get feedback before we finalize the 1.0 release.
Mega Spy will be a Pro-only feature, but during beta it is open to all users. To be eligible for the private beta (we'll open it up to everyone else in the next 3-5 days), all you need is an existing Twitter account with at least 10 followers. To apply, simply tweet the following message:
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Filter visitors by page, better segmentation — and more!
We just released an update that's been two months in the making. On the surface, there are only a couple of major differences you'll notice, but they are very cool ones for sure. What took so long was designing and implementing an entirely new system for how we store page URLs, and converting all of the existing data into that new format (many hundreds of millions of database rows). This fixed a couple of annoying problems we've had with the system from the beginning, and let us build some awesome new features on top. Let's get to it.
You can now filter your visitors by a page they have viewed. This has been a big request. Works in the API too, just use the parameter "href" with the "visitors-list" type. You should only be sending the path and query (e.g. everything AFTER "http://yoursite.com"), unless the page you want to filter by is on a mirror or sub-domain, or it's an outbound link. For example here's how we'd grab all visitors who saw our /users/ page, and all visitors who clicked our company's web site in our footer (http://roxr.net):
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Clicky is now available in 12 languages
The translations are live! Clicky is now available in Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. You can set your "global" language from your user homepage by clicking the "edit" link in the top right corner. This preference will apply throughout the entire getclicky.com. You can also set this preference on a "per site" basis, from any site's preferences page, if for any reason you want one or more of your sites to be in a language other than your main selection.
Note that none of the languages are fully complete yet, although a few of them are really close. Any phrase that is not yet available in your selected language will simply be displayed in English instead. Also note that we haven't fully implemented the translations throughout the entire site yet. It is about 95% on all pages having to do with your stats, but I haven't gotten it into any of the /user/ pages yet. I'll be working on further integration throughout the week.