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Changelog

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
v2.11.10

Patch 2.11.10

July 21, 2025
Plugin conflicts preventing dark/light mode from working

There was a minor bug that could cause light/dark mode to not activate properly due to a common conflict with other plugins

Resolved rare deadlock issue

It was possible for a deadlock error to be triggered upon a post being viewed.

Only verify geo DB once per day

IA was validating the existence of the MMDB file used for geolocation on every admin page load. Now, it only checks once per day.

v2.11.9

Patch 2.11.9

June 25, 2025
Added support for analytics data in MainWP Pro Report emails

You can now programmatically add analytics data from IA into the MainWP Pro Reports email by using the provided tokens.

Fixed CSV text encodings to improve support for Excel

Some special characters could appear encoded when exporting reports to CSV and opening them with Excel.

Minor UX improvements for Integrations menu

The link text has been reworded, and they now open in new tabs when clicked.

Fixed form tracking for Thrive Leads PRO

Thrive Leads submissions were going untracked in the analytics.

Added missing validation for ID link pattern PRO

Incorrectly formatted ID link patterns could be added without error. Now, these issues are caught and prevent badly formatted link patterns from being created.

v2.11.8

Patch 2.11.8

June 19, 2025
Fix for untracked clicks PRO

Further improvement to the reliability of click tracking. Namely, this update gets tracking to work for sites that have limited permissions for temporary files.

v2.11.7

Update 2.11.7

June 18, 2025
Added an Integrations menu for third-party plugins

You can now conveniently see which plugins Independent Analytics Pro integrates with in the Integrations menu, with your currently installed plugins highlighted.

Double-optin forms not tracked for Fluent Forms Pro PRO

Forms in Fluent Forms Pro are now tracked upon submission, whether or not they require double-optin.

Click tracking reliability improvement PRO

If the site’s temporary directory is non-persistent, it will now be avoided, and a PHP file will be used instead to store the click data.

v2.11.6

Patch 2.11.6

June 10, 2025
Prevent "deadlock" error when bulk updating posts

It was possible to trigger an E_ERROR due to an SQL deadlock when bulk updating a large number of posts.

Prevent max_connections error triggered by bot visits

The database request used to create the tracking script has been removed, so a large influx of bot visits can no longer trigger a max_connections error.

Backup solution for Overview modules not loading PRO

Implemented a backup solution for sites that are blocking the Ajax request used to load the Overview modules.

v2.11.5

Update 2.11.5

June 4, 2025
Added support for MainWP Pro Reports

If you’re using the Independent Analytics for MainWP extension, you can now display stats in the Pro Reports sent to your clients.

View counter no longer output in excerpts

The view counter could show up inside excerpts used in widgets outside of the main content.