v1.4beta3 (27 Jan 2007)
Improvements
- Improvements to the translations.
- Added a
rel="nofollow" tag to all links to referrers. This way, will not support referrer spam.
- Detection of
Windows Vista.
- Cache control in
<head>
- Support for two new crawlers:
StackRamble, Yandex, lwp-trivial, Snapbot, Muncher.
- Support for new search engines: poisk.ua, tut.by
Bug fixes
- Wrong symbol in keywords extraction from mail.ru.
- Fixed a bug with some versions of mysql that did not like column called
exit is the entry and exit page list (replaced exit with ${table}_path.exit).
- Fix bug in romanization of Russian words.
- Added proper html to pages with errors when loging-in.
v1.4beta2 (16 Jan 2007)
Improvements
- Many improvements to the translations.
- Better fonts within tables
- Support for new search engines: nigma.ru, gougle.ru, exalead.com.
- Improvement in string shortening for main page, new trends, and individual page stats for a better layout.
- Updated IP to country database.
Bug fixes
- Added various missing translations in setup tab.
- Work on character set conversion for keywords from search engines: stop using
mb_convert_encoding and replaced it with iconv since iconv is part of the main php installation.
- Fixed keyword extraction for Russian search engines: yandex, rambler, mail.
- Fixed the double barrel issue with keywords on the Yandex search engine.
- Fixed issue with conversion of Russian words to UTF.
- Fixed conversion of page names in plots if using a non-ASCII charset.
- Fixed issues with charsets in search engines keywords in latest visitors and path for latest visitors functions.
- Fixed link to maps in latest path analysis.
v1.4beta1 (06 Jan 2007)
New features
- Thanks to the phpTrafficA translation team, we now include a total of seven languages, including five new ones: Russian, Spanish, German, Dutch and Polish!
- New measurements for individual page statistics:
magnet index and bounce rate. The magnet index is a useful tool as it measures how much traffic is brought to your site by a given page. For instance, pages with a magnet index of 1, 2, and 3 are entry pages for 10, 100, 1000 hits a day, respectively. The bounce rate is an important metric as well as it tells you the percentage of people who 'bounced' away (left) from your site after viewing this page only.
- New option to personalize the number of items shown in a page (number of top referrers, top pages and such).
- You can now change or personalise the administrator cookie text (in
Php/config.php).
- You can now sort the page list in the daily, weekly, and monthly stats in various ways.
- You can now change the location of the temporary directory (in
Php/config.php).
- Option to use phpTrafficA as counter: if you activate this function, you will see the page count were you loaded phpTrafficA.
- Option to count search engines in the referrers table as well as in the search engine table.
- You can choose a default language for the user interface (in
Php/config.php).
- Whois link when looking details for latest visitors.
- New option to decide the time of inactivity after which visit is considered to be finished (it used to be set to one hour)
Improvements
- names of countries instead of two-letters abbreviations in plots.
- new function for IP to country conversion: 30% faster and 30% less disk space.
- Files in
Img/, tmp/, Lang/, and Php/ folders can not be listed anymore.
- Better errors with database connection: numerous users report errors when connecting to the database. I suspect configuration errors, but the previous messages were too vague to track down the error.
- Individual page statistics can now be sorted by ascending or descending number of hits, number of days, and averages, with a simple click.
- OS, browser, and country pages can now be sorted according to the data from this month, last month or since the beginning of the record.
- Better analysis of character sets for search engine keywords, and in particular, proper analysis of Russian search engines using Cyrillic such as Yandex, Rambler, and
Aport!
- Added support for the
MJ12bot bot.
Bug fixes
- Some ISP do not support PHP code starting with
<? and only accept <?php. PhpTrafficA did not always include this <?php marker and would not work properly. It is now fixed.
- Added the forgotten
<head> tag in index.php.
- Fixed a bug in
pathAnalysis.php that did not behave properly if the site name includes a /.
- Fixed a bug in
write_logs.php. The PHP/no image log function did not work if called from within a PHP function. It was fixed by setting the main variables as globals.
- Fixed issues with special characters in plot legends and labels.
v1.3 (31 Oct 2006)
Improvements
- Better fonts for MS Windows
Bug fixes
- Added the forgotten <body> tag in
index.php
- Removed some comments in CSS file
- Added a switch globalizing the
$server, $user, $password, $base, and $config_table variables on top of write_logs.php. In some cases, they were not taken into account (when write_logs.php was called from within a php function).
- Fixed an error in table definition for new install. The SQL format was not accepted by old versions of mysql.
- Fixed php typos in
showJS.php that crashed the display of the script needed to record accesses using javascript.
- Fixed a bug that blocked the opening of popups under MS Windows.
- Fixed a bug in the calculation of the worst and best days.
v1.3beta1 (16 Oct 2006)
New features
- Multilingual interface: phpTrafficA is now available both in French and English. We are now looking for volunteers for more translations!
- Database cleanup: you now have to possibility to clean up your database for referrers or keywords that are not used very often. This drastically improves the execution speed and space usage of phpTrafficA. For very large sites, you can also clean up the access database and only keep access information to each page for the last month (data for the whole site such as path analysis, total access numbers, search engines keywords of referrers will remain correct).
- Reset and delete information for site: it is now possible to reset or completely delete all information for a site.
- Google pagerank functions were removed: it was too slow on most servers and did cause phpTrafficA to hang.
Improvements
- Better analysis of access to a page: we now track access from search engines, referrer, and internal links to your own site.
- phptrafficA can now detect windows 2003, Internet Explorer 7, and the iCab web browser.
- Lighter calculations that rarely the full db for search engines and referrers. This drastically reduces the number of calculations needed to generate the stats.
- New IP to country database.
- Various bug fixes here and there...
v1.2 (13 Feb 2006)
v1.2beta2 (1 Feb 2006)
Bug fixes
- Main stats page: corrected a bug that resulted in division by zero under some cases.
- Creation of sql table: list of tables was not up-to-date.
- Updated list of OS and web browsers to match new log function.
- Fixed cross-site scripting vulnerability with keywords results in main, daily, weekly, monthly, new trends, individual page,and search engine statistics.
v1.2beta1 (21 Jan 2006)
New features
- IP based stats phpTrafficA now has 2 kinds of statistics: page views and unique visitors (based on IP addresses) counts. Statistics for OS and web browser are now based on IP addresses as well: if a robot scans your website with 1000 counts within one hour, it will only be counted once.
- Path analysis phpTrafficA now includes a tool to study visitor path on your website. It is fairly complete, with an analysis on entry and exit pages, a path designer that lets you design your own path and see how many visitors used it, and a visitor flow function, to study the movements of visitors along a given path.
- Google pagerank List of pages in
individual page statistics now includes and can be sorted using google page rank (updated every 10 minutes or so).
- Group by month in access plot.
Improvements
- Faster function for OS and browser extraction:
- Tests the most common ones first and stops if found instead of going through the whole list each time
- Does not scan for OS if browser is
googlebot or crawler: we already know the answer...
- Shorter list of OS's: removed all the crawlers as we do not look for them anymore.
- Detection of Palm OS.
- Images for lynx and galeon web browsers, as well as palm OS.
Bug Fixes
- Better legends in pie plots: sometimes, the space for the legend was too small. It should be fixed now.
- Corrected parse error with array indices that appeared on some versions of php with the "public" keyword.
- Fixed a bug with array and php 5 in phplot (line 4238)
v1.1 (07 Nov 2005)
New features
- Password protected statistics: there is no more need for
.htaccess to secure the phpTrafficA folder. This function is now built in. You can also decide to leave your statistics public. Your visitors will have access to the statistics you decide to show but will not see the administration panels.
- Easier install: no need to install ip2c or country flags separately, no need to play around with paths in a number of files. There should only be 2 files to edit, config.php and config_sql.php.
- Path analysis for the latest hosts: follow the footsteps of your latest visitors, see where they came from, where they went, and how long they stayed! These stats are performed on the latest visits only. Crawlers are excluded from this analysis.
- New management of temporary files: dedicated directory.
- Help function with administration tasks.
- Public and private stats: you can make the statistics of public websites available to others without giving away your password.
- You can now decide wether to trim the URL's or not. The default behavior of phpTrafficA is to trim them, e.g.
test.php?arg=x is stored as test.php. If you want, you can now store it as test.php?arg=x. Be careful though, this function is NOT recommended for fully dynamic websites for which the number of untrimmed URL's can become huge.
- Referrer spam protection: in recent months, there has been a surge in referrer spams and we had to set up a way to stop it. If your referrers table is filled up with URLs like buy-viagra-online.may-ass.com, you can now ban those. Simply hit the
ban link, it will remove the URL from your referrers table and add it to the blacklist so it does not show up again.
Bug Fixes
- Better handling of images during "back" and "forward" browser operations. In the past, you did not see the right plot if you used them.
- Fixed bug in average calculations for weekly and monthly stats.
Improvements
- In order to limit referrer spam with phpTrafficA, any URL that contains
buy- is banned as a referrer. This will only apply new installations. If you want to remove this feature, simply remove the line that contains buy- from the referrer blacklist. If you want to add this feature in an previous installation of phpTrafficA, simply add a line with buy- in the referrer blacklist.
- Pages for referrers and search engine keywords have been completely reorganized. You can now choose to display plots or not, you can see the whole list of keywords or referrers, sorted in various ways.
- Lighter design for OS, browser and country statistics: at first, phpTrafficA only plots the data for the current month and provides a list of OS, browsers, or countries that make up more than 1% of all visits. Later, you can ask for a plot of the history or the full list of OS, browsers, or countries. This should make phpTrafficA more readable and easier on your bandwidth.
- New php code for OS, browser, and country statistics. It is now up to 200 times faster for some of the worst scenarios (large number of countries, for instance).
- Better y-axis for improved readability in search engines, visitor retention, and visit duration plots.
- Reduced number of include files: dramatic speed improvements for some functions.
v1.0.4 (09 Sep 2005)
Improvements
- Stats can now be recorded from non php pages, using an image and javascript.
- Added BecomeBot as "Crawler" is OS list.
v1.0.3 (02 Sep 2005)
Bug fixes
- Fixed all issues with servers that have the "register_globals" set to "off". This is a major improvement and it should fix most of the strange behavior that has been reported. If phpTrafficA did not seem to do anything, did not behave properly after you clicked a menu item, or anything like it, it was probably because of this "register_globals" variable.
- Fixed a bug in page "New trends" that generated an error message with new websites.
- Fixed bug in "Visitor retention" and "Visit duration" that generated buggy plots for websites with low and new access counts.
- Fixed a bug in "count.php": it was only generating gif images, but some versions of GD do not support it. The new version will create gif, png, or jpeg images, depending on what you have on your system.
- Fixed a bug when plotting data: phpTrafficA was only generating png images, but some versions of GD do not support it. The new version will create gif, png, or jpeg images, depending on what you have on your system.
Improvements
- Added a phrase such as "Nothing yet" in most tables that do not have anything to show.
- Added Opera 8, Galeon, and Dumbot in browser list.
- Added Symbian OS and Dumbot in OS list.
v1.0.2 (13 August 2005)
Bug fixes
- Corrected a link in the "about" tab.
v1.0.1 (20 July 2005)
Bug fixes
- An old version of the file 'sites.php' was in the archive. It has been replaced...
v1.0 (19 June 2005)
New features
- Page with new trends: pages gaining or losing popularity, new keywords, new referrers
Improvements
- Faster log function (removed of lot of tests, reduced the number of SQL queries by 2). It should be 2 to 4 times faster.
- All pages now validate as HTML 4.01 Transitional and CSS.
- New stylesheet: changed colours and navigation.
- Better navigation in individual page statistics: can be sorted by number of hits, average number of hits, or age.
- Summary page is now simpler and easier to read.
- In general, less statistics are displayed, but they are more relevant.
- Better auto-ticking for plot with sqrt y-axis.
- All plots now have axis labels.
Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug that allowed negative durations in retentions statistics.
- Fixed a bug in table creation when adding a new site.
v0.06 (29 May 2005)
- Bug in write_log.php: was sending wrong site name.
- Bug that added new lines when changing list of os's, browsers and search engines.
- Images for operating systems and browsers.
- Better formula for auto-ticking in plots (add a problem with numbers like 110).
- Better install script (check from write access to sites.php, check creation of new files).
- New list of search engines, os, and web browsers.
v0.05 (14 Apr. 2005)
Fixes and improvement:
- better stylesheet that will work fine in IE,
- long page names or referrer names are cut so the table does not get larger than the window,
- lots of cosmetic fixes here and there.
New features
- retention statistics: number of click per visitor, time spent for each visitor,
- better search engine statistics, with plots such as number of new keyword per day and tables to track down new trends,
- page on referrers statistics,
- individual page keyword statistics,
- you can choose the data at which you want stats for daily, weekly, and monthly stats.
v0.04 (22 Dec. 2004)
The first public version of phpTrafficA. Contains main functionalities.