Changelog

The hook used by PayPal Payments for WooCommerce is different when the “Pay with PayPal” button is used from the cart or a product page, rather than the checkout page. Independent Analytics Pro now monitors this additional hook to track orders.

WooCommerce version 2.11 updated the Shop page so that get_queried_object() returns a page object while still evaluating as a post type archive, creating a unique and unexpected set of conditions, which led Independent Analytics to track the Shop page with a missing title and URL.

Independent Analytics now has a special condition for WooCommerce to handle post type archives that return a page object instead of a post type archive object.

Switched to a support forum link in the sidebar for free users.

The data pruning feature was locking the tables and retrying multiple times, which could potentially use up available PHP workers when trying to record new visitors at the same time. It no longer locks tables or retries its queries and has additional safeguards in place to prevent it from running when not enabled due to leftover cron jobs or stale object caching.

You can now toggle the chart between the last 5 minutes and 30 minutes in the Real-time report.

Improved URL escaping and stricter rules for allowed HTML elements and attributes in output.

The revamped Real-time analytics report includes new features such as live filtering, additional campaign UTM parameters, city-level data, conversions, and the ability to pause the report for deeper analysis.

Independent Analytics Pro can now track submissions for forms created with Breakdance, Core Forms, and the Super Addons plugin.

The Solo Report was difficult to read and use on mobile devices. The design has been improved to make better use of the available space and to be easier to navigate.

To install v2.15.0, you’ll need to use PHP 8.0.30 or later. We see that many users are still on PHP 7.4, but after waiting for 3 years since PHP 8.0’s release, it’s time to require everyone to upgrade. This allows us to fix the deprecation notices that were beginning to appear and adopt more modern programming techniques in our codebase.

You can now use the `iawp_user_excluded_posts` hook to pass an array of page IDs, and the analytics script will be excluded on those pages.

If you have a page that doesn’t call the wp_footer() function, you can now call the iawp_output_tracking_script hook to output the analytics script.

Visitors who reach your site via the Google app on Android devices were being seen as coming from com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox. These stats are now attributed to “Google App (Android).”

When one sub-site processed its clicks, it would inadvertently delete any temporary click tracking data recorded by another sub-site. This prevented more than one sub-site from recording clicks.

The geographic maps have been fixed in PDF exports to include their full colors.

Independent Analytics was still making the database queries to get the page’s view counts even when the admin bar stats were disabled.

Added preventions for an extremely uncommon race condition that could occur when tracking a view.

The automatic data deletion now retries the database query up to three times when it fails.

Previously, you could edit the footer background color, but not the text that shows in it. You can now edit both.

If you’ve already configured the email report to send to yourself and your clients, you can now choose to send the test email to the first email address only, so it doesn’t go to all your clients.

The file extension link pattern can now recognize the following nine extensions: aac, ai, dmg, eps, gz, msi, rar, sketch, and tar.

When you create a new campaign with the Campaign Builder, it now creates a much smaller, auto-dismissing success message.

The Recent Views module now includes a clickable link for every page listed, making it easier to check out the pages your visitors were viewing.

When you click on a report, the page now loads immediately instead of waiting for the Quick Stats and chart to load. Those are loaded in a second request after the initial page loading, leading to a smoother loading experience that feels faster.

There were a few plugins that showed their admin notices in the Analytics menu, so we hid them to remove the unnecessary clutter on our page.

If you’re using the My Private Site plugin and have enabled the setting that disables the REST API, you will now see a warning in the Analytics menu notifying you that visitors are not being tracked.

The Integrations menu lists every plugin that Independent Analytics Pro has a custom-built integration with. Each integration now links to its own page on our website.

When updating via the Dashboard > Updates menu, the Independent Analytics Pro icon would often fail to load. It’s now bundled in the plugin so that it will always display.

A long UTM Source value without any spaces could overlap into the Pages Viewed column. It now wraps into a second line if it’s too long to fit in one line.

If your site has WordPress installed in a custom location, this was causing the Campaign Builder to create links that use that URL as the base instead of the site’s true homepage URL.

The Pages report was displaying URLs based on the WP install location, rather than the homepage URL.

The event category archive pages improperly report as both custom taxonomies and custom post type archive pages. Independent Analytics now detects if pages qualify as both and counts them as custom taxonomies. This fixes the results in the Pages report that show “-” for the title and “http://0” for the URL.

The option to add a cookie to your own browser to ignore your activity on the site was working well, but it wouldn’t remove the cookie automatically if the option was disabled. It now does.

Hovering over a country in the world map shows a tooltip with stats from that country. In some browsers, it did not disappear when you stopped hovering over that country.

This PHP notice was appearing on every page load due to a translation being loaded too soon in the WP startup process.

This update added a new form tracking integration for Request a Quote for WooCommerce. This lets you view the number of quote requests you’ve gotten from each traffic source, UTM campaign, and more.

The Gross Sales filter could be used to find journeys that include a certain sales volume, or any sales at all. Now, you can also filter by zero sales in order to find journeys where customers didn’t buy anything. Combined with tracking clicks on Add to Cart buttons, this gives you a way to find shoppers who abandoned their carts.

Updating this library allows Independent Analytics to recognize more bots to exclude them from tracking.

If your site has pages with missing titles, these could cause errors in the User Journeys report. Now they display as “(Untitled)” and allow the report to load fully.

Fixed a PHP notice that could show up on page views.

This update did not edit any plugin files and only included adjustments and fixes to the readme.txt file used to create the page on the plugin repository.

You can now filter the User Journeys report by the landing page URL or any page’s URL.

For example, you can view journeys where visitors landed on a page containing “/resource/” in the URL, or you can view journeys where visitors looked at the “/blog/awesome-post/” page at any point during their session.

If you’re using the Complianz plugin and would prefer to track visitors with Independent Analytics only after they agree to your consent pop-up, that is now possible by checking a single box in Complianz.

While we don’t view this as necessary for most sites, it is a good option for those who want the strictest adherence to their local privacy regulations.

The Campaign Builder now shows inline error messages if you try to create a campaign link without the required fields or when using a full URL in the landing page path.

We tested with WP 7.0 and made some minor fixes to the interface to maintain the current design.

If you gave users the ability to view the analytics but not edit the settings, they were unable to save a default report. Choosing a favorite report is user-specific and won’t affect anyone else’s view of the analytics, so we added this option for them.

Clicking the “Refresh” link in the Overview report didn’t update the timestamp when the report reloaded. It now updates immediately after the data reloads.

Users who could view but not edit the analytics could not make changes to the Overview report, but the buttons to add modules and customize them were still visible. They have been removed for these users.

The Top 10 lists in the email report show the view count but were sorted by visitors, causing them to appear out of order. They are now sorted by the number of views.

Updates for Independent Analytics Pro would fail when bulk updating plugins via the Plugins menu. Freemius patched this in their latest SDK update, which is included in this version of Independent Analytics (Pro).

Changing the grouping of a table caused the columns to reset. For instance, if you hid the Visitors column and showed the Clicks column and then switched the grouping from Countries to Cities, it would add the Visitors column back and hide the Clicks column.

The chart was displayed at a very small size for any users with a right-to-left language website viewing their stats in the Safari browser.

The white-labeling now strictly adheres to admin accounts only, so if you create a custom user role for a client and give them the manage_options capability, the interface will remain white-labeled.