Burst Statistics – Privacy-Friendly Analytics for WordPress

2.2.9.3

• Fix: some css styling fixed.

2.2.9.2

• Improvement: css change to ensure Burst icon aligned correctly in menu
• Improvement: remove obsolete log line
• Improvement: remove upgrader_process_complete hook to handle upgrades
• Improvement: removed some obsolete files

2.2.9.1

• Improvement: Date range selection option in pages and posts overview screen options.
• Fix: issue in onboarding wizard data storing.

2.2.9

• Fix: move the code directory from /src to /includes, because otherwise javascript files are not scanned for translations by WordPress

2.2.8

• New: improved library for cookieless tracking.
• New: entry/exit pages filter
• Improvement: added fallback database upgrade mechanism in case the normal upgrade didn’t fire.
• Improvement: dismissal of PHP notice.

2.2.7

• New: Detailed live visitors tab
• Improvement: responsiveness on mobile, restored 1280px breakpoint
• Improvement: suspicious data (over 1000 visits from 1 user) is now only detected and the admin notified, not automatically removed.
• Fix: on multisite with Burst network activated, the endpoint incorrectly did not detect Burst as active, which prevents tracking from occuring.

2.2.6.1

• Fix: remove false positive notice about missing tables.

2.2.6

• Improvement: pass post_id to javascript using a data attribute in the body element, to improve accuracy of the page specific pageviews.
• Improvement: dropped usage of the imprecise post_meta pageviews metric entirely.
• Improvement: made it possible to track hook goals with cookieless tracking.
• Improvement: migrated all remaining css to tailwind css.
• Fix: Group by on parameters overview should group by combination of parameter and value.

2.2.5

• Fix: incorrect calculation of bounces and bounce rate.
• Fix: upgrade link on archiving not working.

2.2.4

• New: debug information in Site Health Info.
• New: wildcard filtering on page URL in advanced filters, by adding an asterisk behind your string.
• Improvement: check in endpoint if Burst is still active, for situations where javascript is still active, due to caching, but plugin not active.
• Improvement: catch incorrect data structure on hit, for situations where previous javascript is still active due to caching.
• Improvement: larger selection of Tips & Tricks retrieved from website, showing a variety of different and more up to date articles.
• Improvement: performance optimizations.
• Fix: when statistics table is empty, the summary table upgrade could fail on an empty value for “first visit”, props @programmin.
• Fix: catch edge case where a theme passes a null value to the “the_content” filter (which is incorrect behaviour). props @sllew.
• Fix: incorrect bounce calculation, resulting in too high bounces and bounce rates.

2.2.3

• Improvement: allow ipv6 addresses
• Improvement: prevent false positives on ajax fallback notice
• Improvement: rest optimizer improvements

2.2.2

• New: Extensive range of filter options to easily track what campaigns are delivering your conversions!
• Improvement: Added CORS support to tracking endpoint to allow cross-origin requests via fetch/sendBeacon. props Alex
• Improvement: automatic cleanup of anomalous numbers of visits, when one visitor results in over 1000 page views in 24 hours (customizable with filters).
• Improvement: remove duplicate non necessary json_encode from endpoint
• Improvement: Add logging option to check error responses on the endpoint or rest api, when BURST_DEBUG and WP_DEBUG are set to true.
• Fix: when the weekly statistics report was sent on another day than the default day, date range calculation could retrieve the wrong range. props Pieter
• Fix: Referrer filter not working. props @lekkerbezig
• Fix: allow for alternative WordPress location, e.g. in subfolder ‘wp’.

2.2.1

• Fix: usage of wrong key prevented upgrade from completing

2.2.0

• New: extended range of shortcodes.
• New: goal element preview to check if the selected element exists on the page.
• Improvement: moved all hooks from constructor to init method.
• Improvement: remove bounce=0 conditions on goal filtering
• Fix: Integrations not loading due to path change in 2.0.
• Fix: First time visits counting duplicates for visitors on cookieless tracking when they came back after a month.
• Fix: multisite redirect to network, but should redirect to main site, props @muttleydosomething

2.1.0

• Fix: type mismatch when browser key is not in the user agent data.
• New: Onboarding wizard for new users.

2.0.9

• Fix: incorrect “best device” conversion rate on the goals block.
• Fix: when running tasks validation, summary warning call caused an error, due to wrong call.
• Improvement: allow null value in admin_enqueue_scripts to prevent Visual Composer causing fatal error.
• Improvement: changed plugin_url value to use site_url instead of get_plugin_url() to prevent mixed content.

2.0.8

• Fix: filtering by referrer not working.
• Fix: Dashboard submenu link only working when the Burst settings page was already loaded.

2.0.7

• Fix: in some cases a php warning could be shown on the endpoint.
• Improvement: drop option for administrators to send an email report by adding a query variable.
• Improvement: improved efficiency of burst_find_wordpress_base_path() function.

2.0.6

• Improvement: optimized database upgrade.
• New: rewritten plugin for even better performance
• New: extended range of automated tests to increase reliability