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Yup, we're still alive! Here's what we've been up to the last 5 months
It's been 5 months since our last blog post. Normally we are known for our constant updates and posts, so when people started asking us recently if we were still alive, that was understandable.
I am here to assure you, we are in fact still here and things are just fine! We did try to enjoy life a little this summer so things were definitely a bit slower, but we still pushed out plenty of updates. Not many of them warranted their own post, but we figured with people wondering our status, we'd let you know what's been happening since our last post in May.
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HTML5 History API tracking
If you use the HTML5 History API on your site, good news! Clicky now automatically supports it.
This type of navigation typically only reloads a small portion of your page to inject new content, which means our tracking code (previously) would not be executed again since that part of the page would be static — unless you manually added calls to clicky.log or clicky.pageview when you executed history.pushState or history.replaceState.
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New trend option: vs last year
We have a new trend comparison option that lets you compare reports and graphs vs the same date or date range from the previous year. For example, April 6 2014 vs April 6 2013, or April 1-6 2014 vs April 1-6 2013.
You can see this new option in the date menu for any graph:
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HTML5 audio, embedded actions, tracking code verification, and better cookies
We wanted to let you all know about some of the bigger things we've released in the last month that you may not have noticed, because we didn't post about any of them - until now!
We've had support for HTML5 video tracking for a while, it simply required adding an additional javascript file to your code. This month we just added the ability to track audio as well. We combined video and audio together into their own report, now called "Media", since they are quite similar in terms of the metrics we track — and it's unlikely that many sites will have a mix of both.
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New option to pass alerts to the API
When you create alerts for something like a goal and configure them to be sent via email or twitter direct messages (RIP), what you get is a short URL that will take you right to the visitor session details on Clicky. A handy, but manual, process.
We had a request today to allow the alert IDs to be passed straight to the analytics API so that automated processes could get more data about these visitors. We thought this was a great idea so hopped right on it, and this is now available.