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

This evenings maintenance was completed as scheduled. Please let us know if you have any problems or suggestions by emailing support@feedjit.com.

Regards,

The Feedjit Team.

Feedjit will be unavailable intermittently from 6pm Pacific time for a 6 hour window on Saturday May 24. For our international users, the 6 hour window starts at:

1am on Sunday May 25th GMT/UTC

10am on Sunday May 25th Tokyo time

We are performing a major upgrade to our systems. We will try to minimize the amount of time during this window that Feedjit is unavailable. As usual this will not impact the performance of your website. The only potential impact is that your Feedjit widgets may not appear on your website during this window and the Feedjit.com website may be unavailable during this time.

We will do our best to avoid interrupting the service during this maintenance window.

We are performing this scheduled maintenance to upgrade our systems and software. This will ensure that Feedjit widgets continue to provide you with the excellent performance and fast load times you’ve come to expect from us.

Please email us at support@feedjit.com if you have any questions or require any further information.

The Feedjit Team. <support@feedjit.com>

Vanessa Alexander, the author of 52signals has recently become a Feedjit user and has written a great blog entry about Feedjit.

Melissa who runs Creatively Mine recently discovered Feedjit and is loving it.

Caroline recently became a Fan of Feedjit.

Phos Tan is discovering new things about his traffic with Feedjit.

FunkyMomma is also a Feedjit user and asked a few of her quietly anonymous readers to speak up and they did.

These are just a tiny fraction of the blogs during the last few days who have mentioned Feedjit. We do a regular search using Google’s blog search engine to find blogs who have mentioned Feedjit in the last 24 hours. So if you have something to say about us you can either email us directly at support at feedjit dot com or just share it with your users on your blog and we’ll probably find you.

Have a great Tuesday, may crowds of new visitors arrive on your blogs this week, and I promise I’ll try to blog here a little more than once a month (!!!)

Mark Maunder - Feedjit Founder.

After some very long hours this weekend I’m pleased to announce that Feedjit has moved into a brand new Lynnwood based hosting facility just north of Seattle where our offices are based.

We had a few scheduled interruptions to our service this weekend - one scheduled on Friday night and another last night. After we came back up in the new data center we had a few minor hiccups to work through. Thanks very much to all the users who reported any problems they had. The info you gave us was extremely helpful.

Now that this migration is behind us we will be focusing 100% on adding new features to Feedjit! Watch this blog for updates.

Last night we did some planned maintenance on Feedjit. We made a few changes to the addresses of our servers in something called DNS. We ran into a few hiccups and had to change things several times. That left many DNS servers a little confused about what the address for Feedjit is.

In 99% of cases things are working fine now. But we’ve received a few emails this morning from people who can’t see their Feedjits.

If you can’t see your Feedjits it is most likely a problem with your local Internet service provider’s DNS not having updated correctly. Most of your users can see your Feedjits just fine even if you are currently unable to.

These problems will correct themselves as the slower DNS servers update themselves during the course of today.

My apologies for any inconvenience this has caused.

Mark Maunder

Feedjit Founder & CEO

This evening’s maintenance was completed successfully. Thanks for your patience.

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