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A year ago today...
How many of you remember this logo? It's what I managed to whip up in Photoshop when Clicky launched a year ago today at clicky.roxr.net. It was only 6 weeks in the making at that point and rather scant for features, but one thing we did well from the beginning was showing you every visitor to your site and every action by said visitors. People loved that, and even today, there are still very few affordable products on the market that show you that level of detail per visitor. This remains one of our biggest selling points for a majority of people.
In one year's time, we've had 20,000 sites register on getclicky.com, and tracked almost 600 million clicks for those sites. We've partnered with Performancing and FreeWebs to bring our product to their userbase of 40,000+ and 17,000,000+, respectively. (Plus one other company with over 150,000 users, but that has not launched yet so I can't talk about it). We've had 4 buyout offers - 2 laughable, 2 reasonable - but we turned all of them down. Hard to believe there's still only two of us running this thing. At this rate, that's likely to change soon.
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The new Clicky dashboard
The new Clicky Dashboard is designed to quickly and efficiently show you the traffic data that you care about. It is full of live refresh fun (many thanks to the jQuery JavaScript library), and includes the ability to drag and drop the modules to wherever you want on the screen. They'll stay there forever until you move them again.
The screenshot above shows a number of modules from the Dashboard. Take the 'Links' one for example. It shows your top 5 incoming links by default, but also allows you to view outgoing links and top incoming domains simply by clicking the appropriate link. Only that module is updated when you click items, making the dashboard very fast and efficient at getting the data you want.
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10,000
Today we reached 10,000 registered sites. We also recently broke into the Alexa top 10,000 sites, our 3 month average is actually below 8,000 now. Not that Alexa is reliable measure of your web site's traffic, in fact, I shudder to think about how many financial algorithms rely on this metric. But, since everyone's always quoting their numbers, that's kind of neat.
Thanks for all your support, and help spreading the love.
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Thank you
Thank you to all of our sponsors we have acquired over the past two months. These people and/or companies have helped us pay the bills, and allow us to offer our free service to some of you and our cheaper-than-we'd-like-to-charge premium service to the rest of you. So a big thank you to everyone listed here!
We previously announced that we would no longer have any graphic sponsors as of May 1, to help clean up the site a bit and keep that clean feel. But Gary Vaynerchuk, an avid Clicky user for several months now, made us a very generous offer. Already being a fan of his show, we couldn't refuse. Gary is the man behind Wine Library TV, a near daily video podcast about wine. He is very enthusiastic about what he does, and his show is both interesting and funny. If you like wine, check it out! He is also behind WiiTube, a social networking and video site for Nintendo Wii fanatics. He asked me to mention his brother, AJ Vaynerchuk as well.
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Rethinking analytics
As my man Steve Rubel is fond of saying, the page view is so Web 1.0. I don't think it will ever fully lose its relevancy - there are still plenty of people who wrongly believe the number of megahertz in your computer is all that matters - but in an ever-growing Ajax world, there is a lot more to your traffic than this aging metric.
The release of our new tracking code allows us to track some new user interactions with your web site out of the box: Outbound links and file downloads. But a lot more is on the way. For those of you with Ajax or JavaScript heavy sites, Clicky will soon enable you to track every action a user makes on your site.