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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.
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Bing's secure search will be worse than Google's for most sites
I never realized how much I would come to love Bing in the last year. I don't use it, but now that Google is pretty much 100% secure search across the, almost all of the search phrases that we end up logging are from Bing. Yay for being able to tell what people searched for when coming to our site!
Earlier today I saw this announcement that Bing is now testing secure (HTTPS) searches.
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Heatmap updates: longer storage, better scaling, and new filters
We just pushed some updates to heatmaps today.
First, we've extended the storage time to 6 months, up from 3. When we released these about 15 months ago, we were worried that they would take up too much space if we kept them around for too long, so we were limiting to 3 months of data. It took a while before "lots" of people were using them, so we couldn't analyze the impact on storage space fairly reliably until recently. Good news, they take up less space than we had anticipated because we made some good decisions on the design side of things. Of course, the data older than 3 months from right now has already been purged, so you don't have 6 months now. But 3 months from now, you will.
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Sticky data: custom data, referrers, and campaigns saved in cookies
[Do not panic. You do not need to update your tracking code.]
We've just pushed a major update to our tracking code so it works a bit more like one aspect of Google Analytics now, that being that some additional data is saved in first party cookies (set with Javascript) for visitors to your site. This data being referrers, dynamic (UTM) campaign variables, and custom data set with clicky_custom.visitor (renamed from clicky_custom.session - don't worry, the old name will still work indefinitely).
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New features: site domains and ignore pages by URL
We just pushed two new features today.
The first is site domains, where we break down the traffic on your site by the domain name each page view was on. This will only be interesting if your site has multiple sub-domains, or you are tracking more than one root domain under a single site ID - but we know that there are a lot of you out there that this will apply to, as it has been requested a number of times.