Our New Statistics GUI is now online for Public Beta preview!
Location: http://ot3.opentracker.net
Login: with your standard login details
general notes
The backend has been redesigned to improve navigability and therefore to improve the understanding of reports.
The goal was a modernization that would boost the interface solidly into the Web 2.0 realm and enable mobile-ready platform developments.
Note: best experienced in a "modern" browser; Firefox, IE9, Chrome, Safari, etc.
Note: we have a Jira list for this http://jira.opentracker.net/browse/OTTHREE for all open issues
Request: please make a note of any/all first impressions and share these, which are extremely important to us.
Most significantly, the backend has been rebuilt in order to make it possible to add new reports.
Change points:
The entire code base has been rewritten from the ground up. Old layout techniques (tables) have been replaced with; Divs, HTML5, CSS3: makes the site easily convertible for mobile browsers. AJAX and JSON: This new structure means the interface is ready for generating real-time data streams & reports. JQUERY: Most javascript has been replaced with Jquery (industry standard - comprehensively tested, browser independent).
Summary, we started by rebuilding what we already had, and will now proceed to introduce the new reports we are building, one at a time. We have learned that gradual steps are more effective where interface change / development is concerned, as the majority of users appear to be conservative in this regard. Additionally, this process facilitates thorough testing.
Our vision here is to pace ourselves in a way that combines change and an interface people are very used to.
What's new visually?
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The Navigation has been divided into two components: Left-hand navigation, called "Report navigation" is now only reporting data: visitors, traffic analysis, top navigation lists, location data, technical data, conversion / roi
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Right-hand navigation, called "Options" gives access to Support and Preferences.
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Both of these Menus can now be hidden, by clicking on the thumb-tack icon. This is a sticky behavior.
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Inside the menus themselves, the individual sections have been compacted, so that only the selected sub-heading is displayed.
- Numerous additional updates and changes will be rolled out in phases. While converting the old interface to the new one, we have made the following changes for this first beta release:
Online & Recent Visitors report:
- Improved overview: larger / new visitor icons & country flags
- Options bar has been rebuilt
- Visitor clickstream page: added visitor location map and improved page layout
Traffic Analysis reports:
- zebra striping added to tables for improved readability
- column highlights for selected chart variable
Features list for latest update to new interface. These are all the new features which are located in the Online & Recent Visitors report.
NOTE: technically what is being displayed are VISITS. In other words, the same visitor will re-appear in the list of clickstreams, if they visit more than once.
Blazing fast: the rebuild means that we’re using new technologies to render the actual reports. Both the gui interface, and the mechanisms (cloud-processing) for generating the numbers you see in the reports are state-of-the-art, and so greatly improved in terms of performance / speed.
Infinite scroll: keep scrolling down, you no longer have to click backwards or forwards for searching a few hours or days back. Just turn your mouse / scroll wheel downwards or upwards.
Column selector: customize the data you are seeing in the Online & recent visitors report. Click on the columns that you want. This feature is sticky too! Select from the following: flag, country, city, region, isp, company/org, isp/org, provider, area code (tel), ZIP code, referrer, search term, status, number of visits, pageviews, total pages viewed, last visit duration, current visit duration, total duration, first measurement, operating systems, browser, resolution, IP address, country code.
EZ-clickstream preview: open and view multiple clickstreams in main Online visitors report – each and every line of a visitor can be clicked on (the whole line). This will expand the view to show all clicks of the last visit by that visitor.
Preview multiple clickstreams at the same time: you can open as many clickstreams for preview as you like.
Calendar with date range: you can now select any date (or date range) and click to that date to see clickstreams on that day. It is no longer necessary to hack the url or click the “next” button 20 times.
Thumbnail images of pages: hover your mouse for more than 5 seconds over any url or page title and see a thumbnail image of that page of your website.
Increased interactivity - Hyperlinks: within the visitor profiles it is now possible to click through to other reports for quick access: Operating systems, Browsers, and Resolution.
Increased visual aids - more maps: hover over city names for a map displaying city location.
Zebra stripes: means that scanning visitors in overview is easier on the eyes.
Enhanced Options bar: open by default, redesigned to be more user-friendly.