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:

1. Create a new custom metric in StatsMix
2. Copy/paste the JavaScript sample code to send a new data point to StatsMix:

<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>;

3. Paste this script on any page you wish to track

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.

StatsMix will be having scheduled downtime for approximately 4 hours this Friday, December 3, from 6pm to 10pm MST.

We’re rolling out infrastructure upgrades and some new features that require this. Please note, if you’re using our API, it will also be unavailable during this time frame.

Please check our Twitter account for additional updates during that time and we’re sorry for any inconvenience.

One of the important new features that we’re adding to StatsMix is easily customizable dashboards. That’s a loaded sentence so let me break it down.

Easy

Although modern web services are making things easier by the day, it’s still a time consuming process to assemble a quality dashboard view of your important metrics. One of our guiding principals for this next release has been to make the process of assembling a dashboard as quick and easy as possible.

Customizable

StatsMix wants you to be able to do what we say — mix your stats. Only you know what your important metrics are so you should be able to view them the way you want.

Dashboards

Yes, that’s plural! We’re introducing the ability to create as many dashboard views as you want. Slice and dice your data with different modules (we’re calling them “widgets”) and a custom time frame so you can find the story in your metrics.

We’ve created a simple drag-and-drop interface that allows you to visually build a custom dashboard and start seeing your data in minutes. You’ll be able to choose from eight initial widgets that include graphs, sparklines and simple text. Simply drag them onto your dashboard and you’ll be prompted to configure them with a name and the service or services that you want to see. Then you’ll be able to arrange them in any order you like.

Under the hood everything is running on jQuery and jQuery UI which is a fantastic library for fast and stable front-end development.

We’re super excited to get this release out and see how its put to use!

We’ve been busy here at StatsMix making lots of exciting progress towards our next release. This won’t be just the addition of a few new third-party services — no way. We’re cooking up a whole new user experience with some great features that we can’t talk about just yet.

It’s hard to keep it all secret, so the image above is a little teaser.

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.