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As announced, Woopra is celebrating the addition of more than 8,500 new Members to the Woopra family, and preparing for the second release candidate of Woopra 1.3 Beta (video).

Testing continues on the new Woopra Web Analytics, and your feedback is welcome and critical to helping to improve the web application version of Woopra.

We published some of the early reviews of Woopra 1.3 Beta, and more are coming in every day as we move closer to the stable release. We wanted to share some of those with you, and some more Woopra news worth celebrating!
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As of today, we’re closing the approval round having added over 8,500 new beta testers to total 60,000 registered and active Woopra Members monitoring almost 70,000 registered websites. Wow!

It’s time for a celebration!

Welcome to all our new Woopra Members!

As announced recently, we originally planned on approving 5,000 beta testers in this current round of approvals. By the end of last week, we’d approved over 7,000 and decided to let a few more people in for the Woopra fun.

We’re celebrating with the release of Woopra 1.3 Release Candidate 2 in a few days, following up on the tremendous input from our Members on the Woopra 1.3 RC1 Desktop Application and brand new Woopra Web Analytics, a web app view of your site’s stats and analytics including the integration of the Google Maps API for a live view of visitors by street, satellite, and hybrid views.

As we close down approvals to put all of our energy and focus into the next version of Woopra and incorporating your tremendous feedback, you can still sign up for Woopra. We may be approving another round with the release of the stable version of Woopra 1.3 Beta in a few weeks.

You can stay with the stable Woopra 1.2 Beta. We will automatically upgrade the Woopra desktop client when we release the next stable version.

For a peek at the new features, see the feature list for Woopra 1.3 RC1, a video introduction of the new version, or read what others have been saying about the next version of Woopra.

Your help testing the Woopra 1.3 Release Candidates is welcome and appreciated. Check the list of things you need to know about the Release Candidates known issues. Your help reporting on bugs and issues, and offering a few woops and compliments, in the Woopra Forums is very welcome. If you are unsure as to how to help us improve Woopra, check out How to Help and How to Help Woopra and Woopra Members on the Forums.

Thanks again to all the new Woopra Members joining us. Remember, if you are a proud Woopra user, why not help spread the word with a Woopra badge.

Vladimir Prelovac, author of the WordPress Plugin Development Beginner’s Guide, recently reported he had a near perfect analytics day.

Perfect analytics with all three sources of traffic being equal.

What’s so great about it?

The traffic sources are equally spread.

In the chart on his site, it shows traffic sources as 34% direct, 30% referrers, and 35% search engines. He says:

…by distributing the traffic among referral sites (which means you make good content that people link to), and investing in the user experience (again you make good content so they will come back) you have secured your site against virtually all Internet turmoil – which is the way to run in it the long run.

For some people, they would not look at the breakdown of stats this way. For some, a perfect analytics or stats day would be a giant jump in traffic. For others, it’s a fast and consistent growth upward. Still some want more referrals than search engines, and others are pleased with a ton of search engine traffic and don’t care about direct or referral traffic.

What would define your near or totally perfect analytics or stats day? What analytics do you depend upon to give you a day-by-day accounting of where you are with your site and business online?

You can quickly change the color schemes for each site you are monitoring in Woopra by clicking on the Site Tab arrow. A drop down menu will appear, giving you a chance to change the tab name and choose the color scheme for that site.

When monitoring multiple sites in Woopra, it helps to tell at a glance which site you are watching the live stats and checking your Analytics on. There are currently 12 different color schemes to choose from, with more on the way in upcoming versions of Woopra.

As you click on the color options, Woopra will show you a preview of that color scheme. To choose that color, either click on the drop down arrow or click away from the menu.

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Woop! About two weeks ago we announced that Woopra was opening registration approvals as part of the release of the Woopra 1.3 RC1 Desktop Application for testing, permitting 5,000 users to join the Woopra beta testing phase.

As of today, we’ve approved over 7,000 Woopra members.

We’ll be closing the approval process soon to concentrate on the development of Woopra 1.3, so sign up for Woopra now for a random chance to be approved so you can test Woopra for yourself for free, and give us the feedback we need to make Woopra even better.

Woopra 1.2 is the latest stable version of Woopra, and you can continue with that. When Woopra 1.3 comes out of testing, Woopra will automatically update to the newest version. You can preview the new features in the Video Introduction of Woopra 1.3 RC1. Many have started reviewing the latest version of Woopra, so you can read what others are saying about the new version.

We’ve put a lot of work into the next version of Woopra as we move closer to moving out of beta.

In addition to the Release Candidate, we’ve also released the new Woopra Web Analytics, bringing Woopra members the ability to view their real time stats via the Members Area > View Stats with a Google Maps live view of visitors to the site, stats overview, and some basic Analytics. (more…)

We’ve recently added some installation instructions for Woopra in the Guide for iWeb and Blogger/Blogspot, as well as a couple of new third-party plugins and add-ons for Woopra.

The installation instructions now include:

• WordPress: Woopra WordPress Plugin (Stand Alone) or the manual method for older WordPress Themes.
• Ruby on Rails: Ruby on Rails Woopra Analytics Gem Installation Guide
• iWeb: For tips on installing JavaScript with iWeb, see Artotems Javascript in iWeb.
• Blogger/Blogspot: Use the HTML/JavaScript gadget tool on Blogger as shown in the Blogger-Blogspot Layout Guide

Sites and hosting services which do not allow JavaScript or independent plugins or add-ons, like WordPress.com, will currently not work with Woopra. If you would like to use Woopra on their services, please contact them and us so we can work together to make this happen.
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