The Feedjit Blog

OK, we should have launched Feedjit Live with timestamps. In fact it was incredibly dumb of us not to. I know this because 30 of you who have never met each other and are in many different countries all over the world emailed us independently asking for the feature after we launched. So….

WE’RE SORRY!!!!

As of right now Feedjit Live has timestamps, both in your own local time and as the amount of time elapsed. (Seconds/minutes/hours/days ago) And it’s dynamically updated so you don’t have to refresh the page.

If you’re a nerd or a geek (I’m both nerd and geek) then it may interest you to know that the ’seconds ago’ number is calculated from the time the page-view or click is logged by our servers. So you can tell how long it takes to travel from our servers to your web browser. Usually it’s less than 1 second so the first number you’ll see as the new event is appearing in your browser is zero seconds.

So you can use this to tell exactly how real-time the data is that you’re getting - and unless you’re on slow modem connection or in Antarctica in a blizzard with a polar bear chewing on your satellite antenna… it should be very very real-time!

Keep the awesome feedback coming!!

Mark Maunder- Feedjit Founder & CEO

We’ve taken all your great feedback during the last few days and baked a new version of Feedjit Live which we’ve launched today. You can view Feedjit’s own live feed here and you can visit our home page to get your own completely real-time website traffic feed.

Some of the highlights in the new version are:

• Column titles explaining what the icons mean
• Better icon alignment
• Moved all the options to the top of the feed as buttons
• Put another ad block on the right side of the feed to help pay rent and keep the lights on
• Moved the entire page up slightly so you can see more entries
• We also fixed a bunch of things on the server side including some great performance improvements.

Keep the feedback coming by emailing us at support@feedjit.com - we read every email we receive and (while it may take a few days) we reply to every one.

Mark Maunder - Feedjit Founder & CEO

Shhh! We added a new secret feature to the live traffic feed that is still mostly hidden. If you scroll to the bottom of your traffic feed and click ‘Options’ you’ll see a new option to “Watch in Real-Time”. If you click this you’ll be taken to a page on Feedjit that lets you watch people arrive on your website in real-time. We’ve even added sound, so you can hear people arriving without having to watch the screen.

If you don’t have a live traffic feed yet, click here to watch visitors arrive and leave Feedjit.com in real-time. Then visit our home page to get your own live traffic feed complete with truly real-time stats.

We’re calling the feature “Feedjit Live” and we’re very excited about it. It’s possibly the first browser based real-time analytics available on the web. And like everything Feedjit, it’s completely free and you don’t even have to register to get it.

It works as follows: Your browser connects to our servers and then quietly waits. When a visitor arrives on your website, we detect it and our servers instantly ‘push’ out the new event to your browser and you see it immediately (and hear a “bonk” sound if you have sound activated).

We’re currently in a Beta test phase so please email any bugs you find or suggestions you have to support@feedjit.com. Enjoy!!

Mark Maunder - Feedjit Founder & CEO

A few days ago Tony Bishop who runs bishfish.co.nz in New Zealand sent me an email. If we had a marketing department I doubt they could have written a better ad for our Popular Pages and Recommended Reading widgets. Here’s Tony’s email:

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I put Feedjit Visitors Also Liked widget on all 7oo plus pages on my website www.bishfish.co.nz around 3 or 4 months ago and the results have been astounding:

• Time on site per visitor has nearly tripled
• Number of return visitors has more than doubled
• Pages visited per visitor has nearly quadrupled
• Advertising revenue has more than doubled

To say I am a happy Kiwi would be gross understatement – thanks for a great product!

Tony Bishop
New Zealand
Website: http://www.bishfish.co.nz/
Blog: http://www.bishfish.co.nz/bishonfish.html

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Glad to hear it’s working out for you Tony. If you have had a great experience with one of our widgets and have some data to share, we’d love to hear about it! Email us at support@feedjit.com.

Mark Maunder

Feedjit Founder & CEO

Just a quick heads up for our Feedjit users who use Blogger.com:

Blogger.com (Blogspot) went down this morning twice from approximately 5:45 PST to 7am PST and again from 9:15am to 10am PST. This outage did not affect Feedjit in any way except that we noticed a dip in the number of widgets we were serving for blogspot bloggers during those times - which is what caused us to investigate in the first place.

As yet there’s no mention of it on the official Blogger Blog, but I’m sure the team will have something up later today.

Have a great week.

Mark Maunder - Feedjit CEO