PinnacleQuant.com Analytics

Changelog

1.7.8

• Traffic flow page: the Entry pages and Exit pages tables, and the two tables under Where visitors go next, now share the full width instead of leaving a third of it empty.

1.7.7

• Lighter page views: the list of blocked addresses is prepared when the plugin is activated or updated, not during a visitor’s page view.
• The plugin’s admin stylesheet loads only on its own pages and on the Dashboard, where its widget is.

1.7.5

• Plugin header links updated.

1.7.3

• Visitor IP address: in Automatic mode the Cloudflare header is used only when the request comes from Cloudflare’s own addresses, and the proxy headers only when the request comes from a proxy on the site’s own network; when a proxy header lists several addresses, the one added by the proxy is used. A visitor can no longer pretend to be another address.
• The per-address request limit keeps its counters in a fixed number of slots, so it cannot grow with the number of addresses.
• Works on WordPress Playground and other SQLite-backed installs: the queries behind the by-hour and 30-day tables, the bounce rate, the CSV export and the daily cleanup use only portable SQL.

1.7.2

• Settings page: the help line under a field no longer overlaps the field, and the Email report heading has room above it.

1.7.1

• Email report: under Settings, choose every day or every week, the time, the day for the weekly report and the address. Every day covers yesterday, every week the last 7 days, each number next to the day or week before, with the dates in the heading. A Send me a sample now button sends one right away.
• Bounce rate: the share of visits that viewed one page and left within 10 seconds. A card on the Visitors page (last 30 days, with today and 7 days underneath), the Traffic flow card formerly called Left after one page, and a line in the email report.
• Time zone setting: every time in the plugin, the day totals and the email report follow the time zone you pick under Settings; it starts out as the WordPress setting.
• A tab that reports again after more than 30 minutes starts a new visit instead of stretching the old one.
• Times in the Visitors table use one clock style, with AM and PM, in every column.

1.6.0

• Note box under the Chat and Block from site buttons on every visitor row: a few words that stay with that visitor and show on every later visit, in the search box and in the CSV export.
• The Live Chat add-on (1.4 or later) sends its check-in with the Analytics page signal instead of separately, so an idle visitor costs one request per interval instead of three or more.
• The monthly refresh of the location files stays on when the plugin is deactivated and activated again with the files already installed.

1.5.3

• The location files are no longer fetched by themselves after activation. Click Download the location files on the Visitors page (or Download on the Settings page) and the plugin fetches them, then keeps them fresh once a month. Sites that already have the files keep working as before.
• Table names are passed to the database through placeholders in every query.
• The Visitors page tells administrators, in one line, that the location files are not there yet, with the button right there.
• Requires WordPress 6.2 or newer.

1.5.2

• Every name the plugin uses in your database now starts with pqanalytics instead of pqa, so it cannot collide with another plugin. Existing tables, settings, blocked addresses and location files are carried over by themselves on update; nothing to redo. Only the plugin’s own four tables and its own options are touched.
• Location files are moved into place with the WordPress file system class.
• The Visitors, Traffic flow and Settings pages now work on sites with plain permalinks (the address of the plugin’s own data requests was built wrongly there).
• The location file reader library is updated to its current release.
• Readme: how the DB-IP location files are obtained, and the included library.

1.4.11

• Came from also recognizes Snapchat Ads, Taboola and Outbrain clicks, and the second ChatGPT ad parameter.
• Screen sizes are exact again for phones with a fractional pixel ratio (1080 x 2340 instead of 1079 x 2338).
• Wording on the Live Chat page and in the thank-you line.

1.4.10

• Visits from ChatGPT ads (the oppref click parameter) show as ChatGPT Ads, paid, in Came from.
• Visitors table: the Chat and Block from site buttons sit under the IP address, so every column fits on a laptop screen with nothing hidden, and long page paths wrap instead of being cut.

1.4.9

• The home page is listed by its domain name (yoursite.com) instead of a bare slash in Pages this visit and in the full page list.

1.4.8

• Reworded the paragraph the plugin suggests for your privacy policy (Settings, Privacy, Policy Guide).

1.4.7

• Visitors table: the Chat and Block buttons stay in view on the right while the rest of the table scrolls sideways, on a phone as much as on a narrow window. Pages this visit shows the page path without its tracking parameters (the full address is in the link).

1.4.6

• A page loaded again within a minute and a half of the last time it was on the visitor’s screen (a refresh, or the browser reloading it) now stays one line in Pages this visit, with the time on page adding up, instead of a new line and a new page view.

1.4.5

• Settings: “Let Editors see the Visitors and Traffic flow pages too”. Blocking, the CSV export and the Settings page stay with Administrators.

1.4.4

• When logged-in users are counted, a member’s visit shows their first and last name in the Visitor column (never the login name or email; a member without a name shows as Member #ID). The name is also in the CSV export and in the search box.

1.4.2

• Hosting resources: a setting for how often an open page reports, 10 to 120 seconds.

1.4.1

• A note under the cards explains that logged-in users are left out, so you do not count yourself while logged in.

1.4.0

• New look: rounded cards, small bar charts in the cards for today, 7 days, 30 days and bots, and bars behind the numbers in every table.

1.3.0

• The location files download by themselves after activation.
• Visitors page: the pages of each visit are listed in the row, with a green mark on the current page and a link to the full list.
• Traffic flow page: plainer labels.
• Live visitors are shared with the Live Chat add-on for its “On the site now” list.
• Suggested privacy policy wording under Settings, Privacy.

1.2.0

• Traffic flow page: entry pages, exit pages, next pages from any page, common paths, all pages with time on page.
• The page path of each visit is included in the CSV export.
• Visits that move between pages without a full reload are counted.
• The open page path on the Visitors page refreshes with the rest of the page.

1.1.0

• Free DB-IP databases only; no account needed.
• Visitor name, email and phone columns, filled in by the chat add-on.
• Live Chat page with the steps to add the free chat.
• Clearer wording throughout.

1.0.0

• First release.