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.

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

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

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 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!

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

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

More changes and new stuff:

• Logaholic 2.0.1 introduces some new reports: Screen Resolution, Color Pallette
• Improved test center - it’s now easier split test a small part of a page
• Now has seperated reports for Browsers and Operating Systems in addition to Browser trend reports
• Now supports 1st party Cookie based visitor tracking for both javascript and log file data collection
• Better documentation, lots of bug fixes and many other little improvements

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.

Thanks to everyone who gave us feedback during the 2.0.1 beta test period!

I hope you enjoy our new version, if you have any comments you want to share, please add them below