Woopra’s State of the Union – October 2008
Over the past several weeks the Woopra team has been extremely busy readying a new set of enhancements, bug fixes, and performance improvements. Today a whole series of these updates rolled out just in time for our October State of the Union.
Woopra Engine Updates
Although the primary method of accessing our statistics is the Woopra client, the Woopra Engines are the servers located in our data center that do all of the heavy lifting. They are fully 50% of the solution that delivers the live action results we’ve all come to depend on, and they’ve experienced a number of improvements in speed, reliability and usability since last month.
The most important Server update comes in the form of a completely new DNS architecture which offers multiple benefits to service management, including a radically simplified tracking script.
- The Woopra tracking javascript has now been reduced to a single standard line of code.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.woopra.com/js/woopra.js"></script>
- Users will no longer be required to keep track of or enter Website IDs into plugins such as WordPress, Joomla, vBulletin or other CMS platforms. Indeed, the old Website ID and Code links are gone from the Member’s area and are no longer required in the javascript.
This simplification will allow designers and developers to recycle code from one site to another without needing to take site IDs into consideration.
In addition to the new DNS system, a number of key architectural designs have made information retrieval much, much faster. On high traffic sites certain functions will show speed improvements up to 1,000%.
- Search speeds have improved noticeably.
- Historical analytics rendering is now almost instantaneous, regardless of site traffic.
- User Web page loading is much faster due to the new DNS service.
New Member’s Area
To compliment the many changes to the Woopra Engines, there are a number of important changes to the Member’s area where our Web sites and all of their critical information are listed. Three of the most requested changes of all time are now complete and can be found in the Edit tab:
- The long awaited changes to Time Zone handling have now been implemented. Instead of manually calculating a time zone, you can simply select from a menu. This also includes automatic DST.
- For instances where a site is moved, you can now change the domain name within the member’s area.
- URL Parameter Filtering is now available for sites that wish to include or exclude portions of URLs in order to aggregate statistics. This is especially useful for eCommerce sites with long dynamically generated URLs who wish to track individual product views, or for blogs such as WordPress that do not have Permalinks enabled but who wish to track page views separately.
More to Come
In addition to the myriad of changes presented in today’s release, there are still many more goodies on the way in the coming weeks including a radically updated client, campaign and ad tracking, and an often requested and highly anticipated Woopra iPhone application.
Thanks again for everyone’s participation in the Woopra beta program. We really appreciate all of the support, patience, and feedback as we work to make Woopra complete.
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very good! Unfortunately, my site was not yet approved. :(
Does this mean we should change the old javascript on our website to the new one?
I just tried removing the Woopra ID from my code and now nothing is being logged for subdomains.
The only problem with the woopra iphone app is that it needs apple approval. :P
@richardcwgate
me too.
I hope they fix this up soon, I worry that I might be loosing some data
Sorry for just putting it here rather than on forum…
To Woopra:
got some quick suggestions while your modifying the page of
http://www.woopra.com/members/
Can you move the delete column to the farthest right? I have clicked the delete button accidentally once before, (luckily the site got re-approved) and ever since then I always gets worried when I want to click view stats, I might delete a site again.
the columns I proposing are like this
Website | Analytics | Setting | Package | *Delete*
Thanks guys
@medalia – No need to change your javascript on existing sites. Currently we’ll just ignore the Website ID. Also, given the reports of a couple of other folks here, you might leave the code as is for now until we’re 100% certain that we aren’t dropping subdomain stats or some other strange side-effects.
@richard and fedmich – Why don’t you go ahead and stick your Website ID back in for now. We’ll get Jad to look into this anomaly today and see if he can’t get it straightened out. It’s probably a simple fix that was just overlooked or something.
@fedmich – Great suggestion. I concur 100% so we’ll get the delete button moved to the far right in the next member’s area update. I’d also like to add something that allows people to “undelete” their site for a period of time… say a week. Perhaps it would continue to be listed but with no data except an “Undelete” option and a countdown. Just to be extra certain that people don’t accidentally lose their data.
Thanks all!
John P.
John P
Oddly enough putting the Woopra ID back in was my first move :)
@richardcwgate:
While you are testing this new system, make sure guys your javascript is not cached.
@Elie
Thanks, that seems to be the problem. I guess I should wait 7 days before releasing my change to allow everyone’s cached copies to expire?
BTW the new .js still refers to woopra_id for picking the Woopra Server use.
Woopra is awesome!
testing woopra for pch08
watching podcamp and checking out the woopra siter…
podcamp from hawaii is talking you up now… lorelle
Just so you guys know, I am finishing up the final touches on the WordPress plugin. Expect to see it very soon!
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@Johm P. can you active my website? account: Flokass
Nice … I see some speed improvements … i just miss a exclude ip option, hpe to see it in the next update :P
@flokass: We will be approving new beta testers in the next batch of approvals. Then we will be closing registration for beta testers. We have 50,000 and that is plenty for our needs right now for our private beta program. Thanks to everyone for their patience and support.
I LOVE woopra, I’m soooo enthousiastic about it, THANK you very much!!!!!!!!!!
Is there really an iPhone app coming.. if so.. yay!
@Lorelle VanFossen – Woopra is awesome! Nice to meet you at PodCamp…Mahalo!
@ Michael Wilde:
There is an official Woopra iPhone app coming. There is an unofficial version described in Woopra 4 iPhone – Does Exactly What the Name Implies.
Hello
Im add 4 sites in woopra two month ago , I wait for few days but in the Woopra Program
said me always the same “You don´t have any registered site” go to woopra and Add a site
Thanks , í hope that someday , i could test the woopra platform
Joss
John, when will the next batch of activation approximately be? Looking forward to it.
@ hitmansystem:
We will be approving the final batch of beta testers soon. We’ll be announcing it when we do. Thanks.
Looking forward to seeing this in action. Typically, how long does it take to get approved? I have a small clutch of sites I want to track, but have only submitted one to test this all out. Looks really awesome, btw!
Love the program! Truly beautifully designed.
Only one BIG request. Can we have a streamlined way of EXCLUDING our own IP addresses from the visitor logs. It’s really skewing my results.
There were a couple of hacks offered in the forums, but they all involved inputting your Woopra user ID. Since I recently joined, after you did away with IDs, that doesn’t work for me. And I’d really rather not hack this thing in the Beta stages.
Can this be that hard to implement? It would make a huge difference.
Woopra was awesome, now it is becoming awesome’r.
Thanks for all you do Lorelle and the Woopra team!
@ atweed:
Woopra is currently in beta testing phase. Many are testing it on sites where they are the only traffic or they need to track their course through the site with the program. We will exclude administrators IP address when we come out of beta testing.
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Just thought I’d mention that I Just love Woopra… The interface is awesome and I find something new and exciting everyday. Just added some sites about a week and a half ago and I’m Just waiting for them to be approved. Am Very excited to see them go “Live”…..Keep up the good work. no glitches so far….
Back To Whoopra
a little woopra mobile version, it could be…
Thanks for the pleasure of the woopra use.
Luis from Portugal