michael, January 8, 2010

We’ve just updated the files on our site to our latest official release, Logaholic Web Analytics 2.5.

Many little improvements and enhancements make this release even easier to use.

One major change is that the software is now multi-lingual, so you may choose which language you want to see Logaholic in. (Well, just English and Dutch for now, but if you want to help us translate Logaholic into your language, please read this.)

Enhancements to the user interface include:

  • Improved menu navigation
    Easier, faster access and more consistency throughout the application. The ‘action menu’ is now available on many more items, so you can jump and drill through your stats like never before.
  • Sorting galore
    All report tables now have sortable columns. (We love you jQuery)
  • Dynamic helper menus
    While completing forms, you now get a helper menu showing possible input based on your stats, whether it be keywords, pages, referrers or almost anything else.
  • Introducing Workspace
    A great improvement that will keep track of the reports you visit and put them all together on one dashboard screen so you can easily compare and analyze multiple reports with multiple settings and segmentation at the same time.
    Trust me, it rocks 🙂

This release is mainly the result of feedback we received over the last few months. Thanks to all the customers who participated in our feedback survey, I hope we have a few new features that you will ‘enjoy’.

Phones, Feeds, Segments and more:

  • Mobile Browser Report
    iPhone vs Blackberry. Find out which mobile devices are visiting your site and which ones matter. We’ve also updated overall browser detection.
  • Feeds and Feedburner
    RSS/XML Feed urls are now reported separately from pages, and not counted as ‘human’ visitors towards your website visitor stats. Plus, if you use Feedburner, you can also get your Feedburner stats in Logaholic.
  • New Graphs and Trends
    More graphs have been added to the Today dashboard, which now has a little widget that enables you to switch quickly between essential graphs. Also, check out the Search Trends report to see the big search engines battle it out.
  • Full time zone support
    We’ve extended timezone support in this version. You can now set the reporting and collecting timezones separately for any profile.
  • Improved Visitor Segmentation features
    The segmentation system has been significantly improved. It now has full support for negative conditions and is much faster. We hope more people will now be able to discover this powerful feature. (Current users: Segmentation was called ‘Filters’ in previous versions, silly us)
  • Default Visitor Segments
    We’ve added some default Segmentation filters to get you started, like: New visitors, Return Visitors and Mobile Visitors. But also examples for creating visitor segments for things like Google Adwords, so you can easily track your marketing campaigns performance.
  • Updated Test Center
    The PHP Split Test result report has been enhanced with cool new metrics like the time spent on each page variation and their bounce rates.

For those SPE users out there that are blessed with Terrabyte logs files, tons of profiles and Gigabyte databases; we’re working on an (even) faster database, but that is still in the pipeline. We have added some more maintenance features in the meantime though:

  • added command line script to update all profiles in the background
  • added command line script to keep database size under a certain threshold of months
  • added (beta) support for mysql pack and merge tables (doesn’t work on all tables yet)
  • added a new user level that cannot edit the profile at all.
  • added 1st party visitor cookie support in SPE style javascript tracking code

You can download Logaholic Web Analytics 2.5 here:

http://www.logaholic.com/wp/trial-download/

Thanks for your help!
Michael

michael, December 23, 2009

We’ve just released Logaholic Web Analytics version 2.5. All download files have been updated on the site. We’re also making good progress on the manual

Time is up for today but stay tuned; tomorrow I’ll fill you in on everything that’s new in this version.

Don’t forget to read the Upgrade Instructions if you are upgrading from a previous version of Logaholic.

michael, August 18, 2009

As part of our continued efforts to bring you the best web analytics reports in the fastest way possibible, we’ve just released this maintenance update that optimizes a few queries and fixes some bugs. Mainly, the Return Visitors calculations are now done a lot faster.

Our development cycle has been pretty fast these last few months, so here is a quick recap of major changes we made recently:

  • Custom Dashboards: get everything you need on one screen
  • A new, clean Web 2.0 based menu system
  • New flash based graphs for Funnels and Trends
  • Faster results for many reports when dealing with lots of data
  • Better account management and integration tools for SPE versions.

We’ll have more news soon !

michael, August 4, 2009

As our new 2.4 version was released earlier this week, people started to notice little problems with it. Most of it was due to the fact that we messed up ….

Some files were missing, some unfinished features were available, that sort of thing.

So, we just updated to version 2.4.2: the new graphs in Trends should now work properly, on the fly logins for SPE users now work as expected and the install script should also be working agin.

We promise never to publish a new release after buring the the midnight oil until 5 o’clock in the morning ever again. Not until we sleep on it for a while 🙂

If you’ve downloaded a 2.4 version in the last 3 days, please download it again now and update your files.

All download links on the site have been updated, customs can log in to their accounts to download the this latest version.

Thank you all for your feedback!

michael, August 1, 2009

This just in! …..

– all new Trends flash graphs … thanks to our new uber graph guru Fabian!
– made lots of stuff respond more to the stylesheet so you can customize more
– Increased Today / dashboard screen speed (more queries make use of summary reports)
– Improved trend box on today page, added average visits per day, visitors per day, more accurate visits per user
– Increased speed of visitors and visits report (changed structure of summary table to useful for this report)
– Increased speed of top pages, top pages details and top referrers report
– Increased speed of updating summary tables

More cool stuff is coming soon! Stay tuned 😉