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β€’ πŸ‘Ύ Added an extra option to disable collecting hits when your script is loaded on an error page. Go to your site settings -> Extra Setting and find "Ignore error pages". When your script loads, and the option is enabled, the script will do an additional "HEAD" check of the currently visited page it was loaded on and check if it gets an OK response back. If so, it'll record the hit as normal. β€’ πŸ‘ΎπŸ§Ή Cleaned up the settings page a little by introducing a nav bar on desktop so it's a little easier to navigate. I'll keep...

β€’ πŸ‘Ύ Improved drag and drop for re-ordering pinned sites. Should work much better now. β€’ πŸš€πŸ‘Ύ Added a hits usage meter so you can keep an eye out if you're approaching any limits with your free plan. Check your account or billing page for the usage meter. For accounts that are not currently subscribed and are near their limit, you'll see a little message to please upgrade also when navigating the site. I'm also reaching out personally if I think you should upgrade (when you're way above the limit). Usage is calculated on an average of 3 months, which...

β€’ πŸš€ Improved and changed how unique hits are recorded. Read about it here. β€’ πŸš€ With the above change, you can also now see both total hits and unique hits on your graph in the site dashboard (and toggle between them using the legends) πŸ’ͺ β€’ πŸ› Finally, and hopefully once and for all, fixed an issue with some email reports going missing. β€’ πŸ› Fixed an issue that would bring back all hit data when filtering by certain paths. β€’ πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’« Added better checking for bots and also try and mitigate any preloading hits to register, hopefully improving...

Improved unique hits data

When I first created Tinylytics it was important to allow support for collecting unique hits/views. This was achieved by passing along a randomly generated set of letters and numbers (token) to the browser when the embed script loaded if you had unique hits enabled in your site options. That allowed it to tie the user session to that specific browser without knowing anything about the user. When the user then navigated around your site, it would see this random token within the temporary browser session storage and pass it back when creating a hit β€” this worked well. With that...

β€’ πŸš€ Not exactly a new feature, so it should have the other emoji πŸ‘Ύ, however today I've made changes to the the way the site list loads. It was always slow, especially for sites with a lot of hits. Well, no more. It's near instant. In addition to this, the site list now updates automatically when your hits update β€” I really love this a lot! It's all automatic on a site by site basis. Next up would be to also update the site dashboard itself, I'll work on that one day. β€’ πŸ‘Ύ Made some underlying tweaks when...

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