When creating a new profile in StatsMix, you’ll now be presented with a required option: selecting a category for the profile.
Placing profiles into categories will allow StatsMix to provide relative performance data based on your industry. Category info is not shared, but aggregated anonymously for our calculations.
Of course while this is a required field when filling out the form, you can always select the “other” option, but we highly encourage you to select an appropriate category.
The category list is currently a best effort as it’s hard to create a canonical list of what constitutes categories for websites. If you happen to feel that your site doesn’t fit into any of our categories, please contact us.
Categories: Features.
As StatsMix continues to add more services, some of the list views were getting cluttered. Since there are some logical groupings for the types of stats we’re collecting, you’ll now see a tabbed interface when viewing your list of services for each profile.
Instead of displaying any blank tabs, StatsMix only shows tabs for service categories that actually contain services you’ve added to each profile.
Categories: Features.
We’ve added new services to StatsMix since our last blog post bringing our total up to 16 in the beta.
Here’s the list of what’s new:
Facebook
StumbleUpon
Campaign Monitor
YouTube
Vimeo
Viddler
The full list can be found on our help site.
As an aside, we’ve been announcing each new service as it has been added on Twitter. So if you’re looking for the most up to date news on StatsMix, please follow us on Twitter.
Categories: Services.
One of the most requested features in StatsMix’s beta has been the ability to examine data by week and month. StatsMix now displays weekly and monthly charts (in tabbed views) for each service. In addition, above each chart we now show the weekly and monthly change for each service.
Categories: Features.
Tags: Features
Technorati recently removed the data from their service that StatsMix had been tracking and is in the process of completely re-working their API.
As a result, we’ve disabled Technorati from StatsMix. If and when Technorati again provides useful site metrics, we’ll re-evaluate including them in StatsMix.
Categories: Services.
Over the past few weeks, a number of new features have been added to StatsMix. Those you’ll see as a user are discussed below, but there’s been equally as many back-end upgrades to make StatsMix work even smoother.
A big theme on this latest set of new features was customization, both for the dashboard as well as the daily emails. We found many users focused on a few critical stats that they wanted to monitor daily, but still have access to everything on the site. Our new customization feature is the first step toward making StatsMix work best for each user’s priorities.
Here are the additions:
- Customization improvement that allows for each profile and service to be individually selected to be displayed on dashboard. There’s now a checkbox on the new/edit page for each profile and service to allow display on the dashboard.
- The services that show up on the daily email are now user configurable. Again a new checkbox has been added to the new/edit page for each service.
- Site wide announcements have been added. If there is an important message regarding StatsMix, you’ll see it on sign in and can easily hide it after reading. The focus here is reaching everyone as unobtrusively as possible when there is an important update.
- Added “forgot password” functionality to sign in page (oversight on our part as this should have been there already).
- Added a page for custom metrics – more details on this feature coming soon!
In the future, we’ll try to get a post out when any new feature is added so we don’t have the backlog like you see above. The goal will be to inform our users as soon as possible about anything that will impact their StatsMix usage.
Categories: Features.
Tags: Beta, Features
There’s been a lot of new features added to StatsMix since the last update post. Here’s a quick roundup:
- added WordPress.com as a new service
- added MySpace as a new service
- a mentions count is included in the daily email
- beta invitations are available for all users to send out to anyone
- bug fixes across the site, especially work on cross-browser compatibility (yes, Internet Explorer, what else?)
- a beta survey is now available for testers – please help us make a better product!
What’s coming next? More services (of course!) and a re-worked design that will help with the overall user experience.
Categories: Beta, Releases.
Tags: Beta, Releases
StatsMix has taken the concept of tracking and mapping mentions to your aggregated stats a bit further and we think it makes a huge improvement.
When you now view stats for a given service, you’ll also notice a bar chart that underlies the line chart for a given service. This tracks the number of mentions each day for your site (tracked by profile URL) from Twitter, blog posts, and comments across the web.
Previously, StatsMix was only tracking blogs and comments, but we’ve now added the ability to see all Twitter mentions of your links as well. So when someone re-tweets a shortened link that contains your URL, StatsMix now enables you to track this and see how those mentions are changing your web stats.
In addition, we’ve added the ability to track a feed and include that with the mentions data. In the new or edit profile page, you now have the ability to add a feed URL. This feed can be anything you like. The most common use would be to add a feed directly related to your site like a blog feed or site feed, but it could be anything.
The idea behind adding feeds to mentions tracking is you can now start to get a visual idea of how writing new blog posts or articles are influencing the various web traffic measures.
Let us know what you think of mentions and how we can improve them.
Categories: Features.
Tags: Features, mentions
StatsMix had a lot of updates over the past week. Here’s a summary of what’s new:
- switched from UserVoice to GetSatisfaction for customer support
- updated numerous small tweaks to the UI and error messages
- improved the charting and daily rate of change functionality for services where low numbers are better than high numbers (ex. Technorati, Compete, Alexa)
- added mentions of your profile in blogs and comments
This last item is a big one and I’ll be going more into depth on this subject in upcoming posts. The idea of the mentions feature is to eventually be able to correlate and visualize the relationship between mentions of your site and how it impacts the various stats.
Right now we’re only including blogs and comments, but much more is on the way. Stay tuned!
Categories: Releases.
Added the daily change for each service (as a +/- %)
Categories: Releases.
Tags: Releases
