StatsMix will have a maintenance window this Thursday evening, April 5, from 9pm – 10pm MST.
We apologize for any inconvenience, but this is necessary for us to improve the performance of both our application and our API.
All systems may be unavailable during this time, though we do not anticipate taking the entire window for our updates.
Please follow us on Twitter for any updates during the maintenance and feel free to contact us with any questions.
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We’re excited to announce we’ve released into beta a JavaScript library for StatsMix. The new library provides a quick and easy way to track any action or event on a website. Use this to track page views, conversions, downloads, or just about anything else you can think of.
Using our JavaScript library, a metric’s value (along with any metadata) will be sent to StatsMix every time a page loads.
To use it, you’ll just need to follow these steps:
<script type="text/javascript">; var sm_token = 'METRIC_TOKEN'; // the metric token will be populated for you var sm_value = 1; // replace sm_value with any numeric value. var sm_meta = ''; /* to add metadata, assign a JSON object to the variable sm_meta: var sm_meta = {'food':'ice cream','flavor':'chocolate'}; */ var sm_prefix = document.location.protocol == 'https://' ? 'https://' : 'http://'; document.write(unescape('%3Cscript src="' + sm_prefix + 'http://statsmix.com/stat.js" type="text/javascript"%3E%3C/script%3E')) </script>;
If you’re interested in using the JavaScript library during beta, please contact us. If you don’t already have a StatsMix account, you can sign up for one here.
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Urban Airship recently wrote about building and maintaining their company culture. One of the more interesting points was a focus on making sure employees know the company’s key metrics.
What are the real Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for your business? For a long time we thought it was the number of notifications we were sending. While interesting, and certainly an indication of growth, we view the total number of pushes being sent as just one of the KPIs.
We have a big board in both of our offices (inspired by the one at Panic just down the street) that displays our real-time KPIs across the entire company. This is more than just up-time and number of notifications, but metrics like revenue, pipeline, incoming leads and average time to close that show we are on target with our plan. These are real KPIs and they live on our big board which everyone passes by several times a day.
We have numerous customers tell us they do the same, creating office status boards with StatsMix dashboards. Letting everyone view up-to-date key metrics as they walk around the office definitely reminds them of their overall importance and hopefully starts to align goals. Determining the specific metrics to display, though, is another topic altogether.
I recommend reading the entire article on building a company culture as it’s full of great insights.
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We launched a major update to our dashboard and charting tools. StatsMix customers now have complete control over the appearance of their dashboards and much more fine-grained control for individual charts.
Dashboard widgets are now completely re-sizable with free-form placement. After adding a dashboard widget, it can be re-sized to almost any shape and placed in any configuration on a dashboard. These changes then also appear on any shared dashboards as well. You can also extend the height of a dashboard just by dragging it down. [click to continue…]
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Landing pages are a staple of modern Internet marketing efforts and there’s a great service called Unbounce that makes the process incredibly easy.
While exploring their app the other day, I noticed they offered the ability to use webhooks. If you’re unfamilar with webhooks, they allow you to push notifications from one web service to another with no extra coding.
Looking at their partners page, I was intrigued with how fast ActiveCampaign built a webhook to support Unbounce in 89 minutes. Knowing how the StatsMix API works (and some of our interesting use cases), I figured I could beat that time by about 87 minutes!
So here’s what I did with StatsMix, right “out-of-the-box”, with no additional coding on our back-end. (i.e. I did the same thing any StatsMix customer can do right now.)
http://statsmix.com/api/v2/stats?api_key=API_KEY&value=1&profile_id=1234&metric_id=12345
And that’s it! Whenever someone submits a form on the Unbounce landing page, a value of 1 will be sent to StatsMix for that metric. So for an “Unbounce Form Submissions” metric (or whatever you want to call it), you can track this on a dashboard and/or correlate it against any other metric you’re tracking in StatsMix.
Again, this works “out-of-the-box” due to how we built the StatsMix API. The POST to the stats resource in our API is essentially a bare-bones webhook for almost any web service.
I’ll be exploring more services with webhook capabilities and writing up the results, but in the meantime let me know if you try using our API as a webhook with any other web service.
So try it out and start pushing real-time data to StatsMix with no coding using webhooks!
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