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Changelog

v2.14.1

Patch 2.14.1

January 26, 2026
User Journeys cron job was failing PRO

v2.14.0 added a new daily cron job that gets current values for the site’s average views per session and session duration, which is used for the color gradients in the User Journeys report. This cron job was triggering a PHP error due to an “out of scope” function.

Retitled a couple of filters in the User Journeys report PRO

It was not clear that the Landing Page filter was for the title, and not the URL of the page. It is now called the Landing Page Title filter. Likewise, the Page filter was renamed to Page Title.

Visitors growth and views growth incorrect in Solo Reports PRO

In Solo Reports, the values for the Visitors Growth and Views Growth columns were not calculated based on the single item being viewed.

Solo Reports slow in Firefox PRO

Solo Reports were loading much more slowly in Firefox than in other browsers.

Favicons weren't getting deleted

v2.14.0 added new favicons to the Referrers report and User Journeys report. The option in the Settings menu to delete all plugin data wasn’t removing the favicon images added to /wp-content/uploads/.

v2.14.0

The User Journeys Report Just Launched!

January 19, 2026
User Journeys added to IA Pro PRO

With the new User Journeys feature, you can explore every session recorded on your site. Each one includes a full timeline, letting you see exactly where each visitor came from, which pages they looked at, and any conversions they completed (clicks, form submissions, and eCommerce orders).

Added form tracking for 4 more plugins PRO

Form tracking has been added for Mailchimp for WordPress, Newsletter, Kadence Blocks, and Everest Forms.

User Journey link added to WooCommerce order box PRO

When viewing a WooCommerce order, the Customer Journey box now includes a link to all their sessions in the User Journeys report.

Added compatibility with the YayCurrency plugin PRO

Sites using WooCommerce and the YayCurrency plugin will see the eCommerce metrics in IA automatically adjusted to use the store’s base currency.

Added labels to line charts in the Overview report PRO

Line charts in the Overview were hard to read without hovering over the lines to see the legend. Now, the labels are visible by default, so you can easily distinguish between each line.

Pie charts in the Overview have improved labels and sorting PRO

Before, you had to hover over a pie chart to see the percentage. This is now plainly displayed next to the labels, and the segments are sorted from largest to smallest, making it easier to read.

Added option to pause email reports PRO

If you are sending the email report to a group of coworkers, you may want to pause the delivery over the holidays or at other times. You can now do this in one click.

Updated the translations PRO

Updated the translations in the Pro version to catch up with the free version.

Added more options for the salt refresh

The salt token can now be refreshed daily, weekly, or monthly.

Added favicons to the Referrers report

The data table in the Referrers report now shows the favicon for each site. For some sites, a backup icon will be displayed instead, using a random color and the first letter of the site’s domain.

Updated the IP to geolocation library

This should lead to a modest improvement in accuracy when deriving visitor geolocations from their IP addresses.

Updated the device detection library

This allows Independent Analytics to recognize a larger number of device types, including some bots that can be blocked from tracking.

Added compatibility notices for Falcon and HTML Minify

Users with either one of these plugins installed will be notified if an option that disables the REST API or impacts tracking has been enabled, so they can disable it.

Nicely display phone numbers with spaces in the Clicks report PRO

Phone numbers in the Target column could display ugly encoding characters if they included a space. Those have been removed so that spaces display normally.

v2.13.6

Patch 2.13.6

December 17, 2025
Form submission counts could be wrong after filtering PRO

Applying certain filters could cause the number of form submissions to be overcounted in the Quick Stats and chart.

Form submissions not tracked if title was over 64 characters PRO

If a form had a title that was more than 64 characters long, the tracking would silently fail. This affected all form integrations. Longer form titles are now trimmed to 64 characters.

v2.13.5

FluentCart Integration Available Now

November 10, 2025
Added FluentCart integration PRO

Independent Analytics Pro now integrates with FluentCart, so you can find out where your customers are coming from. Connect your sales to their referrers, landing pages, campaigns, and more. Visit our eCommerce Analytics page to learn more.

Solo Reports for clicks could show the wrong data PRO

If multiple links shared the same Target value, the Solo Report would always show data for the first link in the table with a matching Target value.

Missing menu labels with sidebar collapsed PRO

When the sidebar was collapsed, the labels for the Real-time analytics and Overview report were not displayed properly.

Blocked divi form submissions were being counted PRO

When a Divi form was submitted, IA Pro was tracking the submission even if there was an error and the submission didn’t go through.

Geographic tracking could be paused

Due to a cron scheduling issue, it’s possible that a site could stop tracking geographic traffic if the iawp-geo-db.mmdb file was removed from the wp-contents/uploads folder.

v2.13.2

Patch 2.13.2

October 28, 2025
Fixed another migration error

The data migration could fail due to older tables having a different collation. The collation from older tables is always used now, and existing errors are resolved with the migration auto-fixer.

v2.13.1

Patch 2.13.1

October 21, 2025
Fixed migration error

The migration could fail due to a long index. That index is no longer included, and existing errors are resolved with the migration auto-fixer.

v2.13.0

Exciting New Features & Improvements in v2.13.0

October 21, 2025
Added new grouping options to the Campaigns report PRO

The Campaigns report has always shown every unique campaign, but this can make it hard to see how much traffic you get from a campaign when it has lots of different Term and Content fields.

Now, you can group the table by Landing Page, Source, Medium, or Campaign instead. This collapses the table rows so you can easily see data like the total visitors from a specific source, or the number of conversions from a campaign, regardless of the source or medium.

Added new grouping options to the Referrers report

You can now group your referrers by Referrer Type. This will simplify the table so that it only shows rows for Search, Social, AI, Direct, etc. This makes it easy to compare your marketing channels, so you can find what’s working best for your site.

You can now filter by ANY or ALL matching conditions

Up until now, the filtering system has required that all of the conditions be met. This is good the majority of the time, but sometimes, you want to match multiple conditions, such as a page that matches one of a few different URLs. You can now tell the filter to match ANY of the conditions instead of requiring a match for ALL of them.

Massively improved the Order Referrer WooCommerce box PRO

The Order Referrer box has been renamed to “Customer Journey,” and now includes the customer’s time of arrival, time of purchase, landing page, number of pages viewed, device data, and geolocation.

Added all date ranges to Overview modules PRO

All of the date ranges available in the normal date picker are now available for the Overview modules.

Added support for more WooCommerce multi-currency plugins PRO

IA Pro now reports sales figures correctly for stores using the Curcy, YITH Multi Currency, and WooPayments plugins. You can find a full list of supported multi-currency plugins here.

Added AI referrer type

Sites like chatgpt.com are now categorized in the new AI referrer type, making it easier for you to see how traffic to your site from AI sites has changed over time.

Switched to new geographic map library

The world map was previously built using a library from Google. It now uses a library called svgMap, which is bundled in the Independent Analytics plugin.

The iawp_top_posts() API function now accepts categories

If you want to create your own widget to show a list of top posts, you can do so with the `iawp_top_posts()` function. In this update, we added the option to choose a specific category to get the posts from. You can learn how to use this function here.

Detection added for spam clicks PRO

A layer of spam detection was added to keep ugly bot clicks out of the Clicks report.

Stopped auto-loading Overview module options PRO

There are some options that were being auto-loaded for the Overview report, despite only being used on that one page. We’ve disabled auto-loading for these options to gain a minor reduction in performance overhead.

Fixed the layout of Recent Views & Recent Conversions modules on mobile PRO

If either of these modules were given a two-column width, they would appear broken when viewed on a mobile device.

Resolved potential email report error PRO

Some environments triggered a fatal error when attempting to send the email report due to the line length being too long.

Fixed PHP triggered due to a bad visitor ID value

In some environments, the Visitor ID could be returned as a string instead of an integer, triggering an error.

Only verifying the geolocation DB file once per day

In some environments, the file validation process used for the geolocation database runs extremely slowly. To avoid performance issues, we’ve limited this validation to run once per day at most.

v2.12.2

Patch 2.12.2

August 29, 2025
MariaDB compatibility fix

The previous compatibility fix for versions of MariaDB 11.4 and higher resulted in a performance drop for sites using MySQL. This update resolves the performance drop while maintaining compatibility with MariaDB.

v2.12.1

Patch 2.12.1

August 26, 2025
Fixed error with MariaDB

Sites using MariaDB 11.4 or higher for their databases were experiencing an error that prevented the data table from loading.

Forminator forms not tracking PRO

There was an issue that could prevent Forminator forms from getting tracked on some websites.

v2.12.0

Uncover Hidden Gems with Solo Reports

August 18, 2025
Added Solo Reports! PRO

Solo Reports allow you to view a dedicated report for any page, referrer, location, device, campaign, link, or link pattern. Browse the Quick Stats and chart, and find segmented data tables from every other report type.

Ignore your own activity with a cookie

You can now add a cookie to your browser to ignore your own activity on your site, even when you’re not logged in. This is available via the Ignore via User Role setting. Learn more here.

Overview modules now have 3, 6, and 12 month date ranges available PRO

We’ve included these three longer date ranges for all modules in the Overview report.

Removed the progress bar from the Real-time report PRO

Some users found the progress bar very distracting, so it’s been removed.

Updated translations PRO

Update all translations in the PRO version of Independent Analytics (free version already updated.

Added compatibility with the Maintenance plugin

The tracking script was not previously firing for sites in maintenance mode created by the popular Maintenance plugin.

Added error notice for REST API Toolbox plugin

If you’re using the REST API Toolbox plugin and disable the REST API, you’ll now receive a helpful notice prompting you to re-enable the REST API to allow IA to track your visitors.

Recognizing Pinterest iOS traffic

Visitors from the Pinterest iOS app recently started showing up with the referrer 429047995. They will not be recognized as coming from the app.

Recognizing more Pinterest subdomains

30+ Pinterest subdomains from different locales are now being recognized and flattened into the same Pinterest referrer to make traffic analysis easier.

Added filter hooks for tracking virtual pages

Two new filter hooks have been added for developers who need to track views on pages that don’t use the WordPress ID system.

The Overview report didn't reset after resetting the analytics PRO

Resetting the stats to zero would still show the former stats in the Overview report until the Refresh link was clicked.

Landing & Exit pages with 0 stats no longer shown in Email report PRO

Pages could show up even if they had 0 entrances and 0 exits.

Resolved persistent error breaking the Analytics menu for some hosts

There has been an ongoing issue, particularly with webgo.de, that caused the Analytics menu to show uncompiled code or a fatal PHP error. That has now been resolved.

Fixed PHP notice about use of preg_replace
Fixed deprecation notice about ctype_digit use