One of the most requested features for a while has been the need for SSL support. It’s especially important for clients running e-commerce sites who wish to track users through the site and all the way to transaction completion. Well, we’ve got some great news. Woopra now supports SSL encrypted sites!

There is one important caveat to get SSL tracking to work. You must update your Woopra tracking code to the latest version which can be found on your Member’s Area page.

Since SSL has now been enabled, I would like to remind developers that it’s possible to take advantage of our open API to pass real-time information to the Woopra client while tracking users in the Live view. For Example, the e-commerce engine could be made to output variables to Woopra using a very simple format such as:

<script type=”text/javascript”>

var woopra_visitor = new Array();
woopra_visitor['name'] = ‘John Smith’;
woopra_visitor['email'] = ‘john@smith.com’;

var woopra_event = new Array();
woopra_event['sale'] = ‘Baby Buggy - $129.99′;

</script>

We need a few people to give it a try and give us some feedback, so if you’ve got SSL on a site and have been waiting to give Woopra a shot at it, now is the time!

Hubert Streitenberger put out a little app based on the WordPress plugin code, called Woopra 4 iPhone which reformats the Woopra stats specifically for the iPhone. Everyone I’ve shown it to thinks it’s cool, so we want to thank Hubert for his effort and generosity and also spread the word about it’s availability.

Hubert’s original post is available in German, but in case you can’t read it, here is the Google translation to English.

It’s very easy to install, and although I didn’t test it with any other platforms I think that this applet will run with any PHP based site - not just WordPress. Hopefully someone will give it a try and let us know.

I got it up and running as follows:

1. Download and unzip the Woopra 4 iPhone installation files.
2. Open the Config.php file and edit these three lines to replace your site’s URL, Site ID and API key (found in your Member’s area):
   
define('woopra_host','www.YOURSITE.COM');
define('woopra_api_key', 'XXXXXXXXX');
define('woopra_site_key', 'XXXXXXXXX');
3. FTP the entire Woopra 4 iPhone directory to a secure location on your server. You can shorten the name of the directory if you want, and even put it in your root, but keep in mind it will not be secure unless you password protect it.
4. Visit the directory you just uploaded in your iPhone!

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In June, the Londonderry School Band traveled to China and Woopra tracked them behind the scenes. As the group leaders submitted their blog posts to the Londonderry Hometown Online News sharing their adventures across China and playing for Chinese students and officials, Woopra helped those back home monitor the blog’s traffic and the crew jumped for joy when they spotted the first radar blip from China on the Live Map.

For those that are wondering where did we get this great “Command Center” software from to see what is going on at Londonderry Hometown Online News, it is a new product called Woopra. We are a beta site for them and I will tell you it is very amazing to see. We can tell who is on if they have commented or are an author. We can tell what people are looking at, how long they look at it. We can tell what people search on to find our site (over 60% of our traffic comes from search engines) we then write stories about what people are looking for. Someone searching for Blueberries would result in a story about Sunnycrest Farm. Visit http://www.woopra.com/ for more information or stop in sometime we will demo it for you!

The Londonderry Hometown Online News reports in frequently to the Woopra Forums with bug reports and feature requests, helping Woopra improve. They shared with us their experience monitoring the band’s travels and seeing international visitors on their site through Woopra:

Our installation of Woopra came just one day before our Local Band went on a pre-Olympic Trip to China. Our site is a news site, serving a micro market of just our town of 25,000 in Londonderry, New Hampshire.

What a blast to watch parents log on and view details of the trip as we published them. One of our Authors was on the trip and published every day. We caught them when they logged on once and captured the screen.

Since images and video were slow in coming at the start of the trip the screen image we posted created quite a buzz in the town. We did a small edit to simulate the “rings” since we posted a static image. We also added the China flag since this part of China did not recognize the location. (Chengde) When they were in Beijing the flag and location showed up fine.

Thanks Londonderry for sharing this wonderful Woopra experience with us. How exciting for everyone involved in this international youth experience program.

If you have been using Woopra in an interesting and innovative way, please let us know. We may publish it here on the Woopra Blog which is now seen by thousands through the Woopra desktop client on their computers.