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!

- 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.

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.

There is no need to have a webserver that supports PHP and Mysql, no need to install scripts on your website and no need to set up all kinds of complicated software if you want to use Logaholic like a local Windows application.

Logaholic Desktop includes everything you need in one tidy package. It installs like any other windows program and within a few clicks, you’ll be ready to analyze your websites’ log files.

Logaholic Destop has built-in support for SQLite database files, providing a fast, portable, single-file database format to store your website statistics.

It’s ideal for anyone who can’t or doesn’t want to install Logaholic on a hosted server environment. It is equipped with almost all the features of our server side versions. You can even use the built-in FTP settings to download log files from your webserver quickly and easily.

Logaholic web analytics reveals essential information about your visitors: where they come from, how they find you, what keywords they use and what they do next. It will show you the conversion rates for your products, downloads or subscriptions. It will allow you to dig deep into the numbers behind your website and help you to understand what they mean. But most of all, it will help you make a better, more profitable website.

Powerful web analytics without the installation headaches. Logaholic Desktop is compatible with Microsoft Windows 2000, XP and Vista.

To give it a try, please download our free 14 day trial version below:
LogaholicDesktopSetup.exe (Beta)

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:

Order your copy of Logaholic today or tomorrow and we will install it on your server for you.

That’s right, buy Logaholic on April 29 or 30th 2008 and we will do the hard part for you, at no extra charge.

Installations will be done on a first come, first serve basis, so make sure you get your order in as soon as possible !

To order, just click the link below and choose your version:
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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

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.

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.

If you use Google Adwords, you might know it’s always a good idea to send the people who click on your ads to a specially designed ‘Landing Page’. This page should reinforce whatever the message in your ad is. If the content on the landing page closely matches what the visitor was searching for, you have a better chance of getting something out of that click.

Next, you want to split test various versions of the page in order to maximize the effect of your advertsing by measuring the conversion rate of your landing pages (read : sell more).

So, I’ve actually started advertising on the keyword “landing page”, I figured people searching for that might be interested in the testing features of Logaholic. I also created a landing page for my keyword “landing page” - I’m not trying to be confusing, sorry

You can find the page here:
http://www.logaholic.com/landingpage/

It contains a video on how to set up a split test with Logaholic. The page is currently being split tested and the ads are active. I’ll publish a follow up video with the results in a few weeks time. If you have suggestions for things to test on that page, I’d really love to hear them. Just leave a comment below!

Have fun!

Michael

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.

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:

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!