β’ πΎπ¨ Dramatically improved the speed of loading public status pages with sites that had a lot of hits.
The official companion update & changelog blog to Tinylytics.
β’ π Pixel tracking - finally track your RSS subscribers and newsletter readers! Add invisible 1x1 pixel images to your feeds and emails to see who's actually reading your content. Right now it automatically detects popular RSS readers. This data is not yet filterable in the dashboard but will eventually allow you to check by rss reader and others β although it does count and record hits as usual (as expected). Read about it here. β’ π New Community tab focused on personal web analytics - this is where you'll find pixel tracking tools, visitor journey insights, and community engagement...
Tinylytics turned 2 years old today. Thank you to all that are using it, have been using it, and for those that have signed up to a paid plan over the course of the years. It really means a lot to me β€οΈ It just hit over 16 million hits recorded, and things are moving nicely and I am very excited with where things are headed. Thank you again, here is to the next 2 years βοΈβ€οΈ
β’ π§ π¨ Fixed an issue that would cause the archived sites view to load incredibly slowly. No more! β’ β¨ Tweaked the look and feel of the archived sites list (was still using old styles). β’ π§Ή Brought across style parity with other elements for an archived site. Huh, what? β’ π Fixed a bug where an archived site would throw an error when no hits were present.
β’ π§ Your uptime monitoring is now more reliable and won't auto-pause immediately after you manually resume it after extensive downtime (and where it triggered auto-pause) - we've added a 24-hour grace period when you restart monitoring for sites that were down for a while before resuming the auto-pause. Also improved background data syncing. β’ β¨ Uptime monitoring downtime history is now much easier to read - instead of confusing "76384 minutes", you'll see human-friendly durations like "53 days, 1 hour" with a cleaner, more organised design that fits with the general look and feel. Why not! β’ π€ Did...
β’ πΎ Made usage calculations more forgiving of traffic spikes - we now ignore your busiest month when calculating averages, so viral content won't unfairly bump you up. β’ π Paid subscribers no longer see confusing "please upgrade" warnings when exceeding 100k hits. Higher tier plans with self-serve upgrades are coming soon for those who need them. β’ π Free users still get helpful upgrade prompts when needed, but the new calculation is more forgiving of viral content and traffic spikes. β’ π Usage numbers update in the background, so changes may take a bit to show up. The new...
β’ ποΈπ§Ή Added a link to the API docs in the documentation. β’ π§Ή The Security & Login page in your account now matches the correct background colour (no more gradient β sorry for that). β’ β€οΈ And a little note to all of you... THANK YOU! You're the best.
β’ π There is now a read-only API that you can access as a paid subscriber. Go to your account page, select API Keys and create a key to get started. You also have access to the documentation. This is a work in progress and I will announce this more officially in a couple of weeks. Have a look and see what you think. API keys are read-only and I will be building out a full access based system over the next few months (more details when I have it). β’ πΎ Redesigned the account page so it fits better...
Insights
Hey there! Iβm happy to share a new feature I rolled out a few weeks ago: Insights. Iβve been a bit slow to announce it (sorry, changelog readers!), but Iβm glad to tell you about it now. Insights give you a friendly, easy-to-digest snapshot of your siteβs performance over the past 7 days, with a sprinkle of historical data for comparison. Think of it as a quick, informal report that highlights whatβs going on without overwhelming you with numbers. Hereβs what you get: Β β’ Traffic Patterns: See how your visitors are behaving. Β β’ Best Performing Content: Find out...
β’ π Fixed a bug that would throw an error on a public status page when "filtering" was enabled in settings. β’ π Fixed an error on the billing page when you were subscribed to the old payment provider (Paddle).
β’ π Added the ability to toggle between a lifetime hits widget and uptime widget when viewing your website details. Just use the little arrow on the top right of the widget to change it (it's for subscribed users). β’ π§ΉπΎ Updated the design on the public page of the uptime widget. So it looks the same as above. It also adds the current status of your site. β’ πΎ When an uptime monitor is paused it will no longer show the little "up/down" status in the site header or site list.
β’ π‘π€ Your past 7 insights are now also used to better formulate an insight for you when it works through the daily one. You'll see slightly tweaked text output depending on that. β’ ... saying that, please let me know if you have any ideas. I'd like to officially announce this feature soon, so please help me shape it βοΈβ€οΈΒ
β’ πΎπ‘ Insights are now included in your weekly email if you have it enabled. It'll take the latest one and show it below your hits and kudos data. β’ π§Ή Tweaked the order of links on your site view. If you don't like the new order, please just let me know. β’ β€οΈ Added a few more mini feature cards to the homepage if you're interested. Tinylytics can do a lot these days, so I wanted to add a few more.
β’ ππΎ Added simple trend percentage between your chosen filter (pre-defined date filter) and the previous matching week, month, or day etc. Available for subscribed users. They show on the site list and view in the hit counter. You'll see two trends, one for general views and the other for unique (if enabled). I might add an option to hide trends if you don't like them. β’ πΎπ€ Tweaked the info available to Insights so it's a little bit more informative and also passes in trends for analysis.
β’ π€πΎ Following on from Insights, that I teased about here, you can also now add custom instructions to tailor it more to your needs in terms of tone and what you want to achieve β great to give it context what your site is about or if you want any specific input. You can add these instructions after you enabled it, up to 300 characters. Let me know how it works out for you all and I can tweak it. β’ πΎ Reworked the "Ignore Paths" logic and area so that you can now even add wildcard excludes for...