Changelog

The Busiest Time of Day and Busiest Day of Week modules in the Overview report were both using 90 days regardless of what date range was selected in the settings.

Ampersands and other special characters were getting converted into their HTML character codes when the report refreshed.

An update to our integration with the Newsletter plugin was causing new subscribers to be saved without their name or email address.

The User Journeys menu was failing to open sessions that contained a click event on a link missing the href attribute.

We’ve redesigned the Campaign Builder to make it easier to use and navigate. It also includes a new QR generator, filtering, and the option to export your campaign links to a CSV.

We’ve added a new integration with Cloudflare that you can enable with one click. It lets you track visitor locations more accurately and deletes the MMDB file that Independent Analytics stores in the uploads folder.

Independent Analytics can now track traffic from OpenAI ads independently of regular ChatGPT visitors.

When enabling automatic data deletion, you can now set it to keep 18 months of data, making for a smaller leap between one and two year’s worth of data.

It’s now possible to use a PHP filter to modify IP addresses before they are used in the anonymous IDs Independent Analytics generates.

Independent Analytics fetches favicons from your referrers in order to display them in the Referrers menu. You can now set a constant in your wp-config.php file to disable favicon fetching.

We’ve updated the MMDB file that Independent Analytics uses to determine visitor geolocations, improving its accuracy.

The Overview report refreshes its data in the background once per hour via a scheduled cron job. It’s now possible to disable this cron job.

Clicking on a tracked link that was over 2083 characters long was crashing the click tracking.

Other scripts could interfere with click tracking if they stopped propagation on a click event.

Independent Analytics Pro was tracking some form submissions even when Gravity Forms labeled them as spam.

The Newsletter plugin changed the name of the hook used to record submissions, leading new submissions to go untracked by Independent Analytics Pro.

Internal links that used a mismatched subdomain or protocol vs. the site’s settings would go untracked.

Click tracking was using a JavaScript function that older browsers do not support.

Email reports could mistakenly show stats for a specific author on the site under certain conditions.

Traffic from Facebook Ads should show up more reliably in the Referrers report.

If you are viewing a report with hourly data in the chart, the “daily” CSV export now updates to match and supply the correct hourly data.

CSV exports were not applying all of the logic from the filters, leading to exports that did not match what was seen in the analytics report.

If you enabled the option to ignore your own activity with a cookie, this cookie would persist even after disabling the option.

SQL_BIG_SELECTS is on by default for the majority of hosts, but some of them disable it, leading to errors that can crash the analytics. This new option lets you set a value in wp-config.php to enable SQL_BIG_SELECTS for all analytics queries.

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.