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GetClicky no more
You may have noticed that we're now live on clicky.com! Yay!
For 6 years, our brand has always been "Clicky". Excluding our domain name, nowhere on our site has the brand "GetClicky" ever been mentioned, other than some testimonials that we didn't edit. However, because of the old domain name, the majority people have always referred to us as "GetClicky". It didn't help that our Twitter handle was also @getclicky, but we wanted it to match our domain name (bad idea). It's always kind of driven us insane, but it's been an interesting lesson. If you can afford the right domain name, do yourself a favor and buy it as soon as possible. We paid a pretty freaking penny for clicky.com, but the second it was in our possession was just pure unadulterated joy.
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On-site analytics
We've got two great new features launching today, after nearly 4 months of development: heatmaps, and on-site analytics.
On-site analytics is a new feature that embeds a widget on the bottom right corner of your web site automatically to view information about your visitors who are on your web site right now. Don't worry, only you (the site owner) can see it — but if you want to disable it, you can do so on your user preferences page.
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Heatmaps
We've got two great new features launching today, after nearly 4 months of development: heatmaps, and on-site analytics.
Here's an example of a heatmap report, after the new tracking code has been live on our site for a couple of hours:
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History of Spy (also: ZeroMQ)
This post is written by Alexander, hacker extraordinaire, who rewrote the Spy backend from scratch. Next time you're in Portland, kindly buy him a beer.
Clicky is almost 6 years old and hence was one of the first real-time web analytics platforms. Spy is an important part of that offering. Spy allows you to glimpse important information about active visitors on your website, as that information flows out of your visitors' browsers and into our system.
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We're moving!
This Saturday, August 4, from approximately 2pm to 5pm PST (GMT -0700), our web site will be offline while we move our servers to a new data center in downtown Portland.
We have carefully planned this over the last 3 weeks to ensure that tracking will still be online during this time (no data will be lost and there will be no impact on your site's performance), and that the move itself will be as fast as humanly possible. The new data center is already pre-railed and pre-wired with power and ethernet, so de-racking and re-racking will be extremely fast. So why will it take ~3 hours? Well, the old data center is about 90 miles away... 🙁