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HTTPS for all
As HTTPS becomes more and more common for even just the simplest of blogs, we've decided to allow the tracking of HTTPS sites for all customers, including free customers and those on our grandfathered "Starter" plan.
clicky.com is now also available over a secured HTTPS connection for all customers. Previously we only offered this to paying customers. One of the main reasons for this was that our advertising company, buysellads.com, didn't support ads being displayed over HTTPS. We offset the cost of offering free service by the revenue we make from our ads, so we had no choice in this department. BSA just pushed out HTTPS (on top of its existing IPsec support, which is similar but a bit different) so now clicky.com is available via HTTPS to all customers, paying or not.
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Favorite sites
For those of you with multiple sites in your account, chances are there are a few sites that are lot more important to you than the rest. Now you can make sure these sites are always at the top of your user homepage for quick access, on both the desktop and mobile versions of Clicky.
Flagging a site as a favorite works just like the other reports. Click the star and presto, it's a favorite. Click it again and it's no longer a favorite. If you need a moment to pick your jaw up off the floor, please take it.
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New preferences: log bots and hide the current hour in hourly graphs
As part of our massive preferences overhaul, we added two new preferences that have been requested fairly often.
This is a new site (tracking) preference. We highly recommend leaving this OFF - log analyzers are the best way to look at bot activity on your site - but there are specific use cases where this may be useful. For example, if Clicky is logging significantly less traffic than another tracker you are using, bots are a likely cause so enabling this will let you see if that's the case or not.
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New graphing features
Part of our massive preferences overhaul included chipping away some nasty cruft. One of those things was the option to allow simple HTML bar graphs to be the default graphing method. This was used by very few people so we removed it as an option to be the default graphing option.
But have no fear, we know this method is still useful even for people who never set it as their default, so we changed it to be an on-demand option that you can see in the top right corner of every graph. Whatever date range you're viewing in a graph, clicking the bar graph will show the same data, with one exception: no hourly data. Bar graphs never supported hourly data since they were created (and deprecated) well before we added support for hourly data. So they still don't do that. When viewing hourly data, if you view a bar graph it will just show the last 28 days instead.
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New global user preferences for trends, graphing, and more
Preferences for trends, graphing, and a few other things have always been site-specific, but most customers want them to be the exact same for all of their sites. There's also the (large number of) people who have sub-user accounts who are at the mercy of the master account as to how these preferences are set.
We've gutted this mess and moved these preferences into the global user preferences page. Now every user has control over exactly how they want all of these settings to work. A screenshot of the new page is below.