The crew over at Clicky Web Analytics have been working hard in making changes to their product to deliver what their customers want. Recently, that have made improvements for application developers and users.
API Version 3 Improvements
The main feature of the recent version of the API is combining requests. Previously, data types were one per call, now that can be unlimited. This speeds up applications by not pummeling the Clicky servers for every bit of information. Now, more complete calls can be made less frequently. Also added is the “daily” data range, this allows people to more easily get the data types based on a date instead of an lump sum. The API comes in three flavors depending on you needs. Choose between JSON, XML, and PHP.
Browser and OS versioning
Recently, they added enhanced statistics regarding the visitor’s browser and operating system. Previously, only an aggregate of both browser and OS versions were listed. Now, each brower is broken down into their respective versions. As expected, a majority of my traffic going to my popular post on Firefox 3 extensions are, in fact, Firefox 3 users. For operating systems, at least 60% of visitors are XP users, followed by 10% Vista, 10% Mac OS X, and then the rest.
New Charting for Statistics
Besides the blue bar charts, Clicky has also incorporated the very appealing Flash charts to represent data. The charts also reveal more information when you mouseover the data. For instance, I hover over the FeedBurner chart and the date and actual subscriber count displays depending on the data point. You can toggle between summaries or individual charts.
Clicky continues to improve their product and I am always glad to see when the announce a new feature and usually when they do it was from user requests. It goes to show that they still care about the users and their product.
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