Logaholic 2.5 updated

We’ve just updated to Logaholic version 2.5.2. This fixes a number of bugs in our 2.5 release, mainly the bug in return visitor calculation, the SPE login problems and some more details. All download links on the site have been updated.

What’s new in Logaholic 2.5

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

Logaholic 2.5 Released

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.

Logaholic Web Analytics 2.4.3

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 !

Logaholic updated to version 2.4.2

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!

Logaholic Web Analytics version 2.4

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

Logaholic version 2.2 Released

Logaholic Web Analytics 2.2 is mostly a maintenance release, and fixes a number of issues that surfaced in version 2.1, our major new release from last month. Ohh, how time flies !

We recommend all users to upgrade to this version. Here’s what has changed:

• Problems fixed when working with certain mysql versions, namely in processing data collected with the javascript tracker and when customizing the new Dashboard screen.
• Unimportant PHP notifications are now suppressed properly, sorry about that
• Fixed various input checking bugs when creating profiles in Firefox
• Silenced extra output generated when updating IIS / W3C log files
• Fixed a bug that caused the Profiles list to abort
• Fixed a bug regarding the Bytes transferred count in the All Traffic by Month report
• Added a method that provides cross-domain on-the-fly logins to Service Provider Edition users, please read this
• Added example code for integrating Logaholic User and profile creation automatically from other systems, please read this

You can get the latest version by downloading a Trial version here or log in to your customer account to download the latest version from your order history page.

Web Analytics 2.1 is here

Dear Logaholics,

We’ve just released Logaholic Web Analytics 2.1 - a major update that you don’t want to miss.

This new version has some major improvements under the hood, bug fixes and some exciting enhancements. To name a few changes:

• Improved Cross Browser Functionality (works in IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome etc.)
• New Flash based Funnel graphs
• Improved Summary Report menu navigation
• Improved Filters (Traffic Segmentation)
• Optimized scalability for large screens
• Added ’speed reading’ functionality when handling large log files
• Improved User and profile management for SPE versions
• By popular demand: Added links to RIPE Whois from Click Trails
• By popular demand: Added full database CSV export option (so you can do Web Analytics in SPSS
• and more…

Death of the Today Page ?

Lots of Logaholic users have told us they really only look at the “Today Page” most of the time and only occasionally venture into the other reports. They say that everything that is important is on that page anyway…

That is a shame because a lot of effort has gone into all those other reports. If you never check them out, you are missing some informational gems.

On the other hand, I am glad the Today Page has done such a good job at doing what is was designed to do: to give you one powerful, intuitive snapshot overview of your website traffic instantly.

That is why, out of all the screens in Logaholic, the Today Page really hasn’t changed much since it’s first release in December 2005… until now!

Custom Dashboards

The completely revamped Today Page is still the way you like it … but now you can totally customize it and add any Logaholic report to your Today Overview, including Funnels and Test Center results. You can even drag and drop Today Page components to any position you want. This means you can create your own custom dashboard that shows you all the information that is essential to you, on one comprehensive screen.

Future developments

This release contains the ground works of new features and enhancements that we have been working on for a while, like internationalization, extensibility and customization. I know I will disappoint some people when I say that the translations framework did not make it into this release and neither did the plugin API. The good new is, you can expect that in the next release

Get Web Analytics 2.1

Get the latest version by downloading a Trial version here or log in to your customer account to download the latest version.

Jobs @ Logaholic

We are looking to expand our team, and we have a few positions available to any highly motivated individual that fits the profile.

These positions are based in the Netherlands, but we will consider an ‘online only’ arragement if you are the right international candidate.

PHP / Mysql programmers

We have 2 positions available, one junior programmer and one senior. Both positions can be full time or part time, depending on the candidate.

As part of our development team, you’ll contibute to the ongoing development of our PHP / Mysql based web analytics software.

You’ll work within our team and independently, on sub-projects ranging from custom code for customers, Databases/SQL and UI design(Javascript/CSS/XHTML) to new feature development and internationalization. You’ll also be part of our customer support team, tracking and fixing bugs and making code optimalizations.

We have a highly international client base, so your english skills must be very good.

Your skills:

• PHP, MySql (Expert Level)
• Ajax/Javascript
• XHTML/CSS
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux and Windows webserver environments

We’re especially looking for people that:

• Have an interest in online marketing, web analytics, and SEO
• Are first and foremost a team player but able to work independently
• Are creative and show initiative
• Have a good sense of humor

We offer market conform salary and secondary conditions.

If you wish to apply, please send and email containing a short motivation and your CV to andre @ logaholic.com

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eCommerce Marketing / Sales Assitant

Are you the enthusiastic web savvy marketing and sales minded person we are looking for ?

If you are not afraid of chat, forum, phone or email, if your English is very good and you want a diverse and educational job with lots of possibilities, please don’t hessitate to get in touch with us.

This position can be full time or part time, depending on the candidate.

Primary Tasks:

• Analyze customer base for marketing and new business purposes
• Call customers to maintain and strengthen relationships, collect information and sell upgrade products
• Phone / Email follow for website leads
• Live Chat with website visitors
• Help to create, plan and execute marketing campaigns
• Help to create marketing communication materials, such as ads, emails, website content, documentation, newsletters/blog posts etc.
• PR: Participate in online discussions, help create and distribute press releases, stimulate viral marketing

Secundary Tasks:

We can also train you in these tasks.
• SEO
• Google Adwords Management
• Camtasia Screen Video production

Your Skills:

• “Fluent” in English both written and spoken
• Strong communicator
• Interest in eCommerce and online marketing
• Interest in the ’scientific side’ of marketing; statistics, ROI, analysis

We offer market conform salary and secondary conditions.

If you wish to apply, please send and email containing a short motivation and your CV to andre @ logaholic.com

Logaholic Live Feedback Survey

Logaholic Live, the beta version of our hosted web analytics solution, has been online for a few weeks now and we want to thank you for the massive response (new servers are on the way). Also we are looking for any additional feedback you can give us.

So if you are using Logaholic Live, we would like to invite you to answer a few questions about it. It’s just a few clicks, and your feedback can really help us make the service better.

If you are not using Logaholic Live yet, you can sign up for a free trail account here:
http://live.logaholic.com/

To complete the survey, just continue below.

Pssst… Like the in-line Survey system above ? It’s a new top secret Logaholic add-on, code named “Logaholic Dialog” … more details will be released soon

Logaholic Live - Beta Released

We’re very happy to announce the first release of our new Logaholic Live service.

Logaholic Live is the hosted version of Logaholic Web Analytics Software. It has all the features our regular versions have, but we host the software for you on our network.

• We’ll handle the installation, hardware, upgrades, maintenance, performance tuning, troubleshooting, backups etc; and we’ll provide personal support by e-mail, or phone.
• All you need is a website, a standard web browser and an e-mail account.
• Just create a Logaholic Live account, add a javascript code to your website and we’ll collect and store your log data and host the Logaholic Web Analytics software for you.
• You still own your data; there are various ways to export your statistics, including log file format.
• Easy Setup; you can start collecting data within a few minutes

A Beta version of Logaholic Live is now available. We would like to invite you to give it a free try:

Please let us know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions. We hope to implement your feedback before the ‘official’ release!

Happy Analyzing!

Logaholic 2.0.3: Critical Bug Fixed

We’ve just released Logaholic version 2.0.3. This version works around a Mysql server bug that can seriously mess up your statistics.

If you are seeing strange statistics in your top Browsers report, your mysql server is probably a version that contains the bug.

The problem for us was introduced with Logaholic 2.0.1 Release 4, when we changed a number of SQL queries to make log files import faster. The new queries are all valid, but make use of a mysql function that is buggy in various Mysql server versions. The mysql results can become ‘unpredicable’ with these versions.

We’ve verified that at least mysql version 5.0.27 works properly, but 5.0.26, 5.0.36, 5.0.44 are all affected. In Logaholic, that means first your Browser and OS stats turn to complete nonsense, and if you have a lot of traffic and pages, it will eventually mess up all your statistics, from pages to keywords.

Since we don’t know which other mysql versions are affected, we have decided to publish this immediate fix, that works around the problem for all mysql versions.

Download Logaholic 2.0.3

All Self Hosted and SPE versions have been updated on or site, trial users can download here and customers can log in and download here.

We recommend anyone with Logaholic Self Hosted or SPE version 2.0.1 Release 4 or version 2.0.2 to upgrade to this new release as soon as possible. It will slow down the updating speed somewhat, but at least the integrity of your data will be ensured.

Once you’ve installed this version, results in the reports will return to normal for new traffic. Unfortunately, any incorrect data already in the database will remain incorrect, unless you delete the affected date range from the profile and import the log again.

These are some of the related mysql bugs, if you are interested:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=23249
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=28505
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=19978

Logaholic 2.0.2 adds Internal Search, Google Ranking stats

We’re happy to announce the release of Logaholic version 2.0.2. Beside some bug fixes and improvements, this version includes two brand new reports; Internal Site Search and a Google ‘Ranking’ report.

A hidden gem: Internal Site Search Keyword Statistics

The use of on-site search tools in on the rise. If you offer your visitors a tool to search your site, you can now more easily isolate the keywords from that search tool in Logaholic and display the internal search stats.

This is especially valuable because this reveals the ‘intent’ of your visitor much better than a page view ever can. Since the visitor is already on your site when they perform the search, these keywords can tell you what visitors wanted from your website specifically. This is valuable data that you can use to improve your site, in giving visitors what they want.

Google Ranking

We’ve also added a report that will show you on which Google search result page your website was listed when a visitor used a certain keyword to find it.

This is not as elaborate as the fancy Position Analyzers out there though, it’s pretty simple. It does not give you the exact search result position for your website, but it will show you on which search result page your site was found - first, second, third result page etc.

Using the date range selector you can see if the search engine listings for your keywords are improving or not. You can also easily spot good keywords that could be improved to bring in more traffic.

For existing customers:
To update your current Logaholic version, click the “Customer Login” link at the top left of this page. Next, login and click My Account, View Previous Order. That’s where you’ll find your download link.

For new customers:
You can download a trail version here.
You can purchase a license here.

Updated Logaholic 2.0.1 R4: Faster

Logaholic Web Analytics has just been updated to version 2.0.1 Release 4.

This version fixes a nasty bug that appeared in Release 3. If you have trouble adding a profile, please download this new version and update your files!

Apart from some bug fixes, this release is focussed on improving speed. We’ve implemented some database optimizations that could increase the log analysis speed up to 150%, depending on your situation.

New features:

• You can now also add negative matching filters to the log file list
• You can now strip unwanted url parameters from your pages
• You can now also remove unwanted pages and IP numbers from the database dynamically

For existing customers:
To update your current Logaholic version, click the “Customer Login” link at the top left of this page. Next, login and click My Account, View Previous Order. That’s where you’ll find your download link.

For new customers:
You can download a trail version here.
You can purchase a license here.

How to Split Test a Wordpress site

What if you want to try something completely different ?

What if you want to go beyond single page split testing and test an entirely new website, with new content, sales copy, a different design, the works ?

If you combine the power of Logaholic Web Analytics and a content management system like Wordpress, there is a pretty easy way to pull off this magic trick.

If fact, if you are reading this, you are one of my test subjects and you are looking at the new website I can now run both websites simultaneously and I’m sending 30% of visitors to my new site, and 70% to the old one as a control group.

Using the Logaholic Split Testing system I can track users to each website version and compare the results. Is the new website better at converting more visitors to trial downloads, subscribers and customers ?

You know the old saying ‘Don’t throw away your old shoes before you have new ones’ (is that a saying in your language?) is very true here. By testing your new site before you destroy your old one, you can be sure you are making the right decision and you have the opportunity to fix any problems without too much ‘damage’.

Step by Step Instructions

1. Make a copy your wordpress database

   For your new website, I’ll assume you will use your current site as the starting point. Before we can change the content and settings of the new site, we need to make a copy of the wordpress mysql database, so our original site can stay unchanged.

   There are a number of ways you can make a copy of a mysql database, please read this if you are not sure how to do this. In my case, I could just copy the database folder like so:

   > cp -r /var/lib/mysql/wordpress /var/lib/mysql/wordpress_copy
   > chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql/wordpress_copy

2. Create a Split Test in Logaholic

   Open your Logaholic, go to “Test Center” and click “Create a new PHP split test”. Enter a name and description, something like “Website Split”, “This will split test the entire website”.

   Leave the “Import Test URL” field blank and click “Create”. Next, leave the variation fields completely blank, just click “Create” again.

   Now, click the link to save your test file. The file will be named something like this:

   profilename-splittest10.php

   Once published, this file will set a cookie for your visitors with a value of A or B, so we know if we want send them to website A or website B (the new one).

   The cookie variable will be named like this:

   $lgprofilename10

“profilename” will be replaced with the actual name of your logaholic profile and
“10″ will be replaced with the split test ID number, please keep that in mind.

3. Edit wp-config.php

   Make a backup copy of your wp-config.php file (located in your wordpress directory). Next, open it in your favourite editor. At the top you find a line that looks like this:

   // ** MySQL settings ** //
   define(’DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database

   We are going to replace this with this:

   // ** MySQL settings ** //
   if (@$lgprofilename10!=B) {
   define(’DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the old database
   } else {
   define(’DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress_copy’); // The name of the new database
   }

   This piece of code will load the new database for any user that has a cookie value of “B”, and the old site for anyone else (cookie=A or no cookie at all).

   Save the wp-config.php file and upload it to your server.

   To preview your new site, just open it in your browser and add ?lgprofilename10=B to the url.

4. Build new website

   To build the new site, you’ll have to set the cookie permanently, so you can log into your wordpress administration area using the new database.

   To do this, create a new file called “manualcookie.php” (or whatever you want to call it) and put this code in there:

   <?php
   if ($cookie==”off”) {
   SetCookie(”lgprofilename10″,”",time() + 8640000,”/”,$HTTP_HOST,0);
   } else {
   SetCookie(”lgprofilename10″,”B”,time() + 8640000,”/”,$HTTP_HOST,0);}
   ?>

   Save the file, upload it to your server and open it in your web browser. Now you’ll be the only person in the world that will see site B when you visit your site.

   You can now log into wp-admin and make your new website.

   If you need to see your old site, you can always open a different browser (like firefox) or you can remove the cookie again by opening manualcookie.php?cookie=off

5. Add Split Test Code
   When you are finished creating your new website and ready to start testing, copy the logaholic split test file (profilename-splittest10.php) to your wordpress directory.

   Next, open index.php (the one in your wordpress directory) and add this line to the top of the file:

   include(’./profilename-splittest10.php’);

   Once you save the file, your visitors will automatically get the cookie and be directed to either your old or you new site.

6. Evaluate Results
   Now, some visitors will start seeing your new website. Open your Logaholic, click Test Center and Click the ‘Website Split’ link to view the Split Test result report.

   Use different KPI’s / target files to evaluate how well each site converts to your most important files, the Split test report will tell you which site is the Winner !

7. Go live with confidence
   Once you have your results. Just edit wp-config.php again, so it always loads your winning website database.

Pretty cool right ? Please leave your comments below, thanks!

New Website, New Licenses

If you are not a first time visitor to our site, you may notice it’s been revamped. We hope you like it, if you have any comments, please leave them below!

However, we have also streamlined our product range. We now offer 3 ‘Editions’ of the Logaholic software:

• Logaholic Self Hosted Edition
• Logaholic Windows Desktop Edition
• Logaholic Service Provider Edition

You can compare the available features here.

Each Edition can be purchased with a number of different licenses. Please check out the new products page for details.

The most notable difference concerns the Self Hosted Edition (the old ‘regular’ version). We now also offer a Single Website License. That is now priced at $67. The prices for 5 and Unlimited licenses has been increased.

Again, I hope you enjoy our new website. if you have any comments or suggestions, please leave a comment below, thanks!

New Official Release Logaholic Web Analytics 2.0.1

I’m very happy to announce the official release of Logaholic version 2.0.1.

Logaholic 2.0.1 is a major update as it uses a completly new database layout. The new database stores information more efficiently resulting in smaller, faster data tables.

As a result Logaholic 2.0.1 is much faster when generating reports for longer periods of time or for sites that have a lot of traffic. It does this without compromising any of the details. You can still drill down to the nitty gritty level and see each and every click on your website.

Logaholic 2.0.1 uses approximately 40% less disk space and can easily be 15 x faster in generating reports. With larger datasets, the increase can be over 100x times faster.
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Logaholic 2.0.1 Beta updated

The new Logaholic 2.0.1 beta (for high volume sites) has been updated. Various bugs have been fixed. Most importantly, checks have been added so extremely long log entries no longer result in failed queries during import.

You can download the latest version here:
Logaholic 2.0.1

Logaholic 2.0.1 Beta available for high volume sites

I just wanted to let you know we have just released a new beta version you can try.

Logaholic 2.0.1 is a major update as it uses a completly new database layout. The new database stores information more efficiently resulting in smaller, faster data tables.

As a result Logaholic 2.0.1 is much faster when generating reports for longer periods of time or for sites that have a lot of traffic. It does this without compromising any of the details. You can still drill down to the nitty gritty level and see each and every click on your website.

Logaholic 2.0.1 uses approximately 40% less disk space and can easily be 15 x faster in generating reports. With larger datasets, the increase can be over 100x times faster.

Since this is our first release using the new database style we would like to invite you to test this version before we depreciate the old version. If you run into any bugs, problems or questions, please let us know!

Click here to download Logaholic 2.0.1 beta

Thanks for your help!

Logaholic 2.0 RC12 available

Logaholic version 2.0 RC12 is now available for download. This is a minor upgrade that fixes a few bugs in the previous release.

- Ftp log files and error logs are now automatically skipped.
- tar.gz files containing error logs are also handled correctly now.
- Fixed license error when running update.php via the command line (cron job)
- Improved detection of Microsoft search engine crawlers (live.com bots)

Please visit our download page to get a free 14 day trial, or log in to your account to download the latest version.

Web Analytics Software for Windows

Introducing Logaholic Desktop, the Easy Way to use Web Analytics Software on your PC

Logaholic Desktop is the latest addition to our product family, but unlike our server hosted software, this version works on your local PC as a regular Windows program.
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Free Logaholic Installation Special

If only all servers were built and configured the same way, I know my job would be a lot easier!

Installing software on your server can sometimes be a daunting task. Although we’ve tried to make the Logaholic installation process as easy as possible, I know there are people out there that can’t get it to work.

In that case, I have some good news for you:
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Logaholic 2.0 RC10 - Lots of improvements!

We just wanted to let you know we’ve updated Logaholic to version 2.0 RC10.

One major change is that Logaholic now correctly detects Microsoft’s ‘cloaked’ web crawlers. Yes, Microsoft has done it again. They seem to have unleashed a wierd version of their ‘livebot’ spider a while ago.

I guess it travels slowly because we did not notice it before, but since a few weeks, it’s all over the place. It hits a site from a whole range of IP addresses and does not even identify its self as a crawler, it looks exactly like a regular visitor. However, they all come from one IP range and only if you resolve the ipnumber it’s origin is revealed as ‘livebot-xx.search.live.com’

The previous version of Logaholic will not detect these new livebot requests as crawlers and since they come from potentially hundreds of different ipnumbers, your stats can be seriously inflated and your top keywords report filled with sex and drug related junk keywords, courtesy of microsoft.

We’ve fixed it so it groups all requests from the IP range to a single visitor and classifies it as a crawler so it’s filtered out of things like keyword reports.

Other changes:

- Updated charts files to latest version
- Fixed return visitors bug when we have a lot of crawlers
- Started detecting new livebot based on ip range, merging to one ip
- Filtered out crawler request in search engines report
- Now deleting global settings correctly after delete
- Accurate log file esitmates now work on multiple files
- Actionmenu links to trends now always displays more than 1 day
- Fixed error reporting level
- Added a ‘hide’ feature to disable parts of the software, i.e demo mode (see hide.php)
- Improved handling of long urls and keywords
- Improved report table headings
- Added date selection back in notes system.
- Added last 24 hours to quickdates
- Added loading indicator in funnel reports
- Removed crawlers from funnel stats
- Improved visual mode
- Changed Top Pages reports
- Added most crawled pages report
- Fixed some layout bugs
- Added daterange support in sidepanel links in testcenter
- Silenced argc in update.php
- fixed jumping hr on interface in IE7
- Changed logaholic javascript tracker to work directly with mysql again.
- Changed license system, ioncube is no longer required.

All versions have been updated on our site, so please log in and visit your order page to download the latest version.

If you are not a customer yet, our Free Trial has also been updated to this version. You can get it here.

Thanks for all your feedback!

Michael
PS:
If you want to know more about the Microsoft bots visiting your site, check out these links:

Discussion:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/msn_microsoft_search/3424476.htm

and microsoft’s excuse:
http://blogs.msdn.com/webmaster/archive/2007/12/04/live-search-and-cloaking-detection.aspx

Please Resubmit Support Tickets

Our email hosting provider installed new SPAM filters a few weeks ago. We had pretty ‘agressive’ filtering enabled on our incomming suport and sales email accounts, as they receive a huge amount of spam.

Unfortunately, the new filters were a bit too enthusiastic.

A lot a valid support emails have ended up in the Spam box, which is purged every 3 days.

If you’ve sent us a message in the last 2 weeks and did not receive a reply from us, there is a good chance your email was blocked or deleted by now. In this case, please resubmit your suport ticket here.

The filter settings has been lowered now, so your message should get through again.

Our apologies for any inconvenience.

The Easy Way To Split Test Web Pages (Part 1)

A/B Split Testing content on your website is a great idea. But implementing it is often tedious, hard work.

No so with Logaholic Web Analytics. The new “Test Center” in Logaholic 2.0 makes running a split test as easy as it can be.

To show you the concept, I’ve created a typical example situation in which you can use split testing to great effect, with ‘minimal’ effort.
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Logaholic Security Update

Logaholic has released version 2.0 RC8, which adresses some security issues, fixes a number of bugs and adds a few features.

Security Update:
- Added Anti-SQL injection measures.
- Added Anti-cross site scripting
- Added Anti-HTML injection measures.

Other Changes:
- Fixed bug preventing the use of some faster summary tables (Speeds up important reports)
- Fixed various Logaholic SPE issues, added branding option
- Added search to various reports
- Added custom setting for visit/session timeout period
- Added resove IP on/off switch for click-trail reports

This release should fix the vulnerabilities mentioned on various security related websites (i.e SecurityFocus.com). If you have any further information concering Logaholic security, please contact us to report the issue.

I would like to mention that these issues were classified as ‘moderate risk’. Moreover, they could only be taken advantage of by others if your logaholic directory is not password protected.

Needless to say, we advise everyone to password protect the logaholic installation directory.

We also advise everyone to upgrade to this version. All versions on our site have been updated. If you are a logaholic customer, please log in to your account and access your Order History. You will be able to download your update from there.

New Logaholic 2.0 Licenses available

Logaholic has changed it’s offering of product versions. Most importantly you can now buy a 5 website/profile version next to the original full version.

Here are the details:

Logaholic Web Analytics - 5 Website profiles ($67)
Single user license, for personal use only. With this license you can install Logaholic on one physical server and analyze up to 5 different websites.

Logaholic Web Analytics - Full Version ($167)
Single user license, for personal use only. With this license you can install Logaholic on one physical server and analyze as many websites as you want.

This latest release (2.0 rc5) has another new feature that lets you dynamically search within reports. Check out some screenshots:

I feel the love !

First of all, happy new year and thanks to all for the great response to our last posting - you guys are keeping me so busy I still haven’t had time to change the site! It must be a conspiracy

Thank you all very very much!

As a result, the bonus offer for a personal version with unlimited profiles for $67 will still be available over the weekend. So please make sure to get your order in before monday!

Current customers can now download the Logaholic 2.0 upgrade also.
Just log into your account here: http://www.logaholic.com/order/account.php

Click ‘View’ for your previous order to get the download link!

It’s unofficial ! Logaholic 2.0 released

Yes, that’s right, it’s finally here - unoffcially that is

You see, I simply could not wait any longer before releasing Logaholic version 2.0 ‘Release Candidate 1′ - it being the last day of the year and all.

It’s unofficial because I have not yet had the time to update the website to reflect the features of Logaholic 2.0. My video’s, live demo, feature lists, limitations, even PRICING - everything is OUTDATED!

So, if you just arrived on our site and want to watch a video, please do, but the actual software looks MUCH better now and it can do A LOT more.

Here are some of the most recent additions to Logaholic 2.0:

- Bounce rate calculations (see how many poeple leave your site instantly)

- New / returning Visitors (see what percentage of your traffic is really new)

- Hot new Visit Duration Reports

- Dynamic pages support (for CMS systems)

- New in-depth Search, Performance, Browser and Error Trend reports

- Exciting new funnel analysis reports - Create and track your own sales funnels

- All new Test Center - A/B Split testing has never been easier

- Awesome filtering system that turns logaholic into a 3-D information goldmine - segment, slice and dice your traffic any way you want!

- and much much more!

Now for the sweet news:

If you are lucky enough to visit us today or tomorrow, there is a bonus if you order now.

Order now and get the new Logaholic 2.0 software for one server with UNLIMITED websites/profiles for only $67.

When my new years eve hangover has faded, we’re changing the pricing and it will be based on the number of profiles/website you want to analyze. The smallest license will be priced at $67, but if you have more than a few profiles, you’ll have to pay a bit more (sorry guys, I live in Euroland and this dollar is killing me Even so, Logaholic will still be the best deal on the market!

What if you already own a license ?

Upgrading to Logaholic 2.0 is free for current customers! We will be publishing the upgrade version before the end of the week and we’ll be sending out an email when it’s available!

No License yet ?

What are you waiting for ? Just Order it here - $67 - end of year introduction special

It comes with a money back guarantee if your are not 100% happy with it - Yeah, like that’s gonna happen ! (Sorry, I’m feeling bold today

Have a Happy New Year and a great 2008 to all!

Michael

Logaholic moves to new office!

Our old ‘garage’ was getting a little crowded so Logaholic has moved to a new location!

I’m happy to say it’s a real office this time, with windows, phones, desks and everything We’re now located in the largest business district in Amsterdam (Zuid-Oost), near the Ajax Football Stadium (Arena).

If you’re in Amsterdam, give us a call and feel free to drop by !

Our new address:
Logaholic
Keienbergweg 95
1101 GE Amsterdam
Netherlands

Our new phone number: +31 20 7072719

Grotere kaart weergeven

Server Crash

We’re back! After what seems to be the longest 40 hours of my life, I’m happy to say we’re back online.

Our Hosting provider moved our server to a new location and managed to completely fry the motherboard in the process. The replacement server would be up in a few hours they said.
Yeah Right!

Anyway, we’re frantically building up the new server, and most things should be working again now.

My apologies for the inconvenience if you visited us during this down time!

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Server Maintenance

Our server will be moved to a new hosting facility tonight, so we’ll be offline for a few hours.

This should take from about midnight to 6 am on december 6th.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

What’s new in Logaholic 2.0 ?

Now that Logaholic 2.0 Beta has been released to our test users, I am starting to get a lot of questions from other people who want to know what Logaholic 2.0 is all about before installing the beta.

So, I guess it’s time to reveal some of it!

I could soup up a short list here with what’s new, like a cool new user interface, new Trend Reports, Sales Funnel Analysis, support for SQLite databases and that sort of thing, but where is the fun in that? I would rather give some details about a couple of features that can really make a difference for your online business.

In the next few weeks, I’ll be writing a couple of posts on this blog, and each day I’ll highlight one of these new features in Logaholic 2.0.

Today, I want to tell you about something we’ve called “Filters”.
A simple word for some hardcore web analytics.

Logaholic 2.0 allows you to slice, dice and segment your traffic in any way you want. Filters basically enable you to define a sub-group of visitors and lets you view almost any Logaholic report for these visitors separately. This makes it very easy to isolate groups of visitors that came to your website via a certain ad campaign, for example.

As you know, not all visitors are created equal. Some are better than others and the ones that make you money are the best. The first step in getting more of the right visitors is to know which traffic sources send you the best quality visitors.

Logaholic filters helps you categorize your traffic so you can do in-depth research on visitor behavior for any type of group you want to define.

This is not only great for analyzing the effect of marketing campaings or reporting traffic statistics to an affiliate partner, it’s also great tool to help you improve your website by comparing groups.

In short, Logaholic Filters turns your generic traffic data into a 3D information goldmine

We’re still accepting new beta users, so if you want to give Logaholic 2.0 a try make sure to get on the notification list and you’ll still be able to download your copy:
http://www.logaholic.com/wp/trial-download/logaholic-20-notification/

Happy Analyzing!

Michael

How a top SEO consultant works with web analytics

A few days ago, I was talking with SEO consultant Chris Price, an organic search specialist and Logaholic customer. Chris told me how Logaholic had been one of the tools he used to achieve a Google #1 position for their SEO keywords. And the metrics he was looking at especially, are not what you would expect.

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Web Analytics Overdose: Logaholic 2.0 is on it’s way

Hola!

After buring a lot of midnight oil, we’re very happy to announce the first customer-only beta test for the long awaited Logaholic 2.0.

Logaholic customers can download the beta version from the order history page when you log in to your account.

This beta version is out just in time for my much needed holiday, so I’m gonna keep this post short and not reveal too much about the new version. What I will say is this: More power, More speed, More flexibility and much more cool numbers.

So, hold on to your sales funnels and get ready for Logaholic 2.0

If you are not yet a Logaholic customer, please note that if you buy Logaholic 1.96, you will get the all new 2.0 version for free.
Because well, we’re just nice like that.

The public beta of Logaholic 2.0 should be available in the next month or so, if you would like to be notified when the beta is available, please click here.

Here’s a sneak preview:

See you in two weeks!

Using Web Analytics to Slash Advertising Costs

Hi Everyone,

Today’s post is ‘for advertisers only’ …

If you use Google Adwords or any another Pay Per Click
solution - if you advertise in ANY way, please read this
post because it contains information that can save you
a lot of money every single day.
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New Release: Logaholic version 1.96

Hi Everybody,

Logaholic has been updated to version 1.96 - Our best version yet!

Rather than new features, for this release we’ve focussed on quality improvements across the board. Better error handling, optmized coding, improved visual mode and some drastic under the hood changes have made this version one solid puppy that should work on a wide variety of servers and configurations.

If you are currently using an older version than Logaholic 1.96 (Build 2), we recommend that you upgrade to this version.

Logaholic customers can log in here. Check “My Orders” to download the latest release.

If you are not yet a Logaholic customer, you can order Logaholic 1.96 here.

I just want to thank everyone for their feedback and patience in getting all these little i’s dotted, I’m very happy with the result.

This will also be our final 1.x release. We are currently working very hard on the future, as we now start our march to Logaholic 2.0. A ton of new features lie ahead - some of which will positively knock your socks off

So, if you’ll excuse me, it’s back to the drawing board for me.

Thank you all,

Michael

Introducing Logaholic SPE

Finally! We are very happy to announce the release of the long-awaited Logaholic Service Provider Edition (SPE).

Logaholic SPE is the perfect solution for service providers that want to offer a web analytics solution to their customers. Web Development firms, Hosting Providers, Application Service Providers, Ad Agencies, Marketing and other Consultancy companies have helped us develop Logaholic SPE in order to design a flexible and robust multi-user web analytics solution that meets your needs.

Logaholic SPE has all the great features our regular version has, but also offers these benefits:

• Enable Logaholic for your customers websites
• Full User Management
  Allows you to add login users to the system and grant access to one or more profiles.
• Integrate with existing login systems
  You can link logaholic user authentication to any existing login sytem you have in place.

Here’s a screenshot of the user administration:

Logaholic SPE is based on version 1.96 - our most stable, time tested release to date. If you would like to test a trial version of Logaholic SPE, please contact us at sales@logaholic.com

Logaholic SPE is now available, place your order here!

PS: For all of you who have helped us with testing and suggestions during our SPE Beta period, please check your email, you’ll receive a discount coupon!

Logaholic Updated to version 1.95

Hi All,

We’ve updated the software to Logaholic version 1.95. This is just a minor update that fixes and improves some stuff. You’ll only need to upgrade if version 1.93 is giving your problems.

Stay tuned for more soon

Use Web Analytics to find more traffic

Today, I want to share with you a method I have used to double my traffic and my sales. If this method will work for you I don’t know.But it is very simple and worth a try.

Traffic Duplication Strategy

In a nutshell it comes down to this: duplicate what already works.

Step 1: Find out which referring sites are most valuable

Step 2: Investigate the referring site.

Step 3: Find 5 sites that are just like the referrer

Step 4: Try to get a link on these new sites

In more detail, this is how you can use Logaholic to get the information you need.

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Logaholic Service Provider Edition Beta Test

In order to better meet the specific needs of Service Providers (like ISP’s, Online Ad Agencies, Marketing and Consulting firms, Hosting companies and so on), we have developed a special version of Logaholic: the Service Provider Edition (SPE).

Today, I’m happy to announce the first public beta test of Logaholic SPE. If your company fits the profile for this product and you are looking for an analytics solution you can share with your customers, I would like to invite you to participate in the beta test.

Please send an email to sales@logaholic.com, include your company information and we’ll get you a download right away.

Logaholic SPE Features

• All the features of the regular Logaholic plus,
• Full user management
• Create user logins and limit access to one or more profiles.
• Select user rights for editing and updating profiles
• Choose Logaholic login system or link it into your existing password schema’s
  

Get your beta’s while they last !

Logaholic Keeps Growing

We are very thankful that so many people are finding their way to Logaholic. This growth has also brought us a lot more support mail and recently our response times have been slipping a little (oeps!). Since great customer support is something we will not compromise on, we’ve made some improvements.

We’ve decided to centralize the help documentation and customer support into one streamlined Support Center.
One integrated system will make it much easier for us to respond to questions and create helpful documentation anybody can use. We’ll be adding lots of articles to the knowledge base.

This Support Center replaces the the old helpdesk ticket system and the forum. You can still email us at sales@logaholic.com or at support@logaholic.com but your messages will automatically be processed through the support center. Cool ai ?

If you still have open tickets in the old helpdesk, don’t worry, we’ll be sending you a reply shortly.

One more housekeeping note: We’ve changed Email hosts and our DNS has been altered today. Email deliverability could be spotty for the next 48 hours tops.

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Logaholic version 1.93 released!

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to let you know we have updated Logahoilic Website Statistics & Analytics to version 1.93. Both the Trial and the Paid versions have been updated.

Current customers can log in here. Click My Account and View your order history to find the download link.

Otherwise, please download the trial version from our website here
http://www.logaholic.com/wp/trial-download/

What’s new ?

• Incoming traffic from from ads on the Google Content Network is now logged as being from the source domain, not from “googlesyndication.com”.

  If you advertise with Adwords on the Content Network (like me), this is going to save your life ! Finally you can see which sites your ads are running on, measure conversion from those sites and have a ball with Google’s Site Exclusion feature in Adwords.

  Using this information, you can finally make the Google content network work in a cost effective way!

• Flash Graphs on the Trends screen no longer occasionally load off-center.
• Improved Visual Mode
• Improved Keyword detection
• Improved Useragent detection
• Optimized updater
• Lots of ‘under the hood’ improvements in this version, including better output handling when running logaholic form a cron job.

Here is a screenshot of the new ‘adsense referrers’:

Logaholic Trial updated to version 1.92

This is just a minor update that fixes a few bugs in our previous trial version. If you have downloaded Logaholic before and were having trouble installing it, the new version should be a lot easier in that respect!

You can get the software from the Download page.

Thanks!

Logaholic version 1.9 released !

Logaholic is proud to announce the release of our latest version, Logaholic 1.9

This version offers significant improvements and really good looking charts.

Also, I’m very happy to be able to offer you a free trail download so you can install and use the fully functional software yourself!

Welcome to our new site!

A new home for Logaholic was well overdue, but now, it is finally here

We hope you like our new site design. We’ll still be changing a lot of the copy and adding content in the weeks to come, so please stay tuned.

If you run into any bad links, please let us know. If you have any comments, please don’t hesitate to leave them below.

Thanks!

Put Your Site On The Road To Sales

This video will demonstrate what you can do with the breakthrough report “The Road To Sales”.

If you want to have inside information into the mind of your customers, be sure to watch this video now!

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Discover Visual Mode

This video will guide show you how to use Logaholic ‘Visual Mode’ to check out vizualized click through statistics on your web pages.

This is an awesome way to better understand your visitors and it’s guaranteed to spark you imagination and inspire ideas for improving your site content and design.

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Installing Logaholic

This video will guide you through the Logaholic installation process.

You’ll find out how easy it is to set up Logaholic on your site.

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An Introduction to Logaholic

This video will guide you through the main reports offered by Logaholic.

It shows an older version of Logaholic, but it’s still a great way to really understand what is being presented and how powerful this software is.

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