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Filter out traffic based on country, organization, referrer, and more!
Some of the most requested features we get are to filter out all traffic from specific organizations, and filter out all traffic from specific countries (or only log traffic from specific countries, for "hyper local" sites). For the countries thing, we used to link people to an old blog post, since deleted, that showed how to do this; however, that stopped working a year or two ago when Maxmind killed their javascript API.
Well, no fret! These types of filters, and more, are now officially supported directly from the new "Visitor tags and filters" site preference page.
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Nginx and A+ SSL
Back in June, we migrated to Nginx for load balancing, which has been fantastic. I've been wanting this for years and I was so happy when it finally happened.
We're using some older hardware we had lying around, the parts combined for each server cost barely $1,500 when originally purchased. Compare this to the $7,000 we paid for each of our old Kemp load balancers, not to mention the $1000+ support contracts per load balancer we needed for software upgrades and warranty exchanges (which we've had to do 3 times over the years. Of a total of 6 that we've owned, 3 of them have died and had to be replaced. 50% failure rate. Compared to the ~60 servers we've built over 9 years and only had 1 die, ever.) These sub-$2,000 machines can handle more than 3x the load of our $7,000 proprietary load balancers. 3x the performance for 1/4 the cost = 12x more for our money, plus no more support contracts.
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Webhooks and push notifications for alerts
We just pushed some new updates for our alerts system.
First, webhooks. Basically this means we'll ping a URL that you give us everytime that alert is triggered, and you can do what you want with the data we pass through to it. Full details on this are on the alert set up page.
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Clicky Supersize XL Extreme edition
I've been wanting to make Clicky take advantage of larger screens for a long time but there were a lot of challenges involved beyond just changing the width of the site container. (I know that sounds pretty lame but just trust me).
But after last week's release of our new Segments feature, it was clear this needed to be the next major project. Segments are great, but they take up a lot of horizontal space which really crippled a few reports. For example, the Links (referrers) report:
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New feature: Segments!
It's been a while but the wait was worth it! (Yes, we're still here!)
Segments has been in demand FOR. EVER. and we could not be more excited to finally offer this to you. Think of it as the one-off segmentation we already offer, but integrated into nearly every report automatically and with almost no impact on speed. You can also sort the reports by any of these new columns. It's pretty nice!