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.

Here’s a quick demo video that illustrates the new functionality:

Overall, the big improvements are:

Dashboards

• Completely re-sizable dashboard widgets
• Free-form placement of dashboard widgets
• Change the size of the dashboard height to accommodate any widget configuration
• New pie chart dashboard widget

Individual Charts

• New, easy-to-use controls for chart type options
• Additional chart types – spline, area, pie, and area-spline
• New, easy-to-use controls for data grouping options
• Additional data grouping options – real-time and hourly
• An improved date range picker

StatsMix automatically converted your dashboards, but please double check their appearance (especially your shared ones).

Let us know if you have any questions or help with any of these new features.

Once you setup metrics and dashboards in StatsMix, you often want to control the look and feel of those reports for your team, customers, or the public.

While we’ve had some existing options to change the branding, they were limited to this point. But that’s all changed! We’ve just launched a completely updated way to change the appearance of any dashboard or metric as well as making it possible to white label them. This is especially useful you’re sharing dashboards with customers.

Here’s what we’ve added and enhanced:

• ability to remove all StatsMix branding
• add your own custom CSS
• upload your own logo
• add a custom domain
• password protection for shared dashboards and charts

Here’s more detail on each new feature:

Remove StatsMix Branding

By default, any shared dashboard or metric is wrapped in a nicely formatted StatsMix branding. On Standard plans and higher, you can now easily remove any and all references to StatsMix and customize the look and feel using the next few options.

Add Your Own CSS

Add your own CSS to fully customize the look and feel of any shared report. The only limit is your design skill! Contact us if you need any assistance in this area.

Upload a Logo

You can now upload a logo that can be displayed on shared dashboards or metrics.

Use a Custom Domain

The default sharing URL follows this format: www.statsmix.com/x/random_token. We now offer the abilty to use any domain in place of www.statsmix.com. For example, your shared dashboards and charts can now have a URL that looks like this: metrics.mycompany.com/x/random_token. Once again, we now allow you to fully remove all mention of StatsMix as needed.

Password Protection

For any shared dashboard or metric, you can now also assign a password when setting up sharing. Passwords are unique to each shared dashboard or metric, giving you full control over access.

Most of these features apply to our Pro plans and higher. You can see the full list on our pricing page.

With the new daily summary email design, we’ve also updated how users manage email notifications within StatsMix. The old way was a little complicated and involved too many steps to configure the email for each profile.

We now have a separate notifications area in StatsMix where users can customize each of their emails with exactly the metrics they want. Any changes will show up in the next morning’s daily email summary.

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of a new release that significantly increases the overall performance of StatsMix. From the launchpad to dashboards, everything is faster.

While everyone will see a performance boost across the service, it will be very noticeable in our charting and visualizations (including all our dashboards). Check out a sample dashboard here.

Try it out and let us know what you think!

Today we’re please to announce a number of improvements to StatsMix. Our primary goal with this release is to make the initial setup process as quick and intuitive as possible.

Here’s a quick list of improvements:

• Revamped the launchpad to enable quick access to most commonly used metrics and dashboards
• Removed the profiles page in favor of a dropdown navigator
• Added the option to immediately configure a metric after creating it
• Multiple changes to the metric details page, including:
  • Real-time charting so you can see new data right away (previously data was aggregated daily)
  • Tabs showing API code for several major programming languages, making setup a copy & paste operation for most use cases
  • More chart configuration options, including date ranges, “group by” options (daily, weekly, monthly etc), and metadata charting
  • A form to input data manually right from the metric page
  • A simplified CSV upload form
• Added a getList wrapper method to our PHP library

We have quite a few more changes queued up for the coming weeks. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you’d like to see a demo or have other questions.

One of the most requested services for StatsMix to support has been ZenDesk.

A leading web-based customer support system, ZenDesk makes it easier to manage your help desk and provide customer support.

In addition to requests from our own customers, we use ZenDesk ourselves and wanted to track open support tickets on our StatsMix dashboards.

So we rolled out initial support for tracking open and new support tickets in ZenDesk within StatsMix. You can now easily add open tickets to a dashboard along with your other important business metrics being tracked. We’re rapidly working to add deeper integration, but we wanted to roll this out to all our users as soon as possible.

Let us know what you think!

We released a major upgrade to StatsMix this weekend that brings lots of changes including new features and a move out of our private beta.

Beta

During our beta we received tons of great feedback and gained a solid understanding of what our current and future customers need. Since we had a large number of beta testers during this period providing lots of feedback, we decided to move out of the beta and now offer free trials for new users.

All of our existing beta testers will be getting an email with details on a special deal to continue using the service with a significant discount!

New Features

The new release also contained many exciting new features.

We now offer multi-user accounts for each company. StatsMix works best when teams are able to share and collaborate on dashboards. An account admin can now add additional users to their StatsMix account enabling them to participate fully in managing their important business metrics.

One of our biggest feature requests was the ability to share dashboards with employees, clients, investors, management, or anyone involved with running the business. StatsMix now lets users share any dashboard they create via a link or embedding on another web site.

And of course there were numerous improvements and bug fixes to our dashboard displays, charting, and data aggregation.

We hope you enjoy the new and improved StatsMix and as always we’d love your feedback!

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.

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!

Added the daily change for each service (as a +/- %)