There was a fire at Fisher Plaza data center this morning. Rest assured that all your traffic feeds, widgets and Pro data was unaffected and is safe and sound. We are not based at Fisher Plaza but are based out at Lynnwood, about 15 miles North of Seattle.

However our credit card processor, Authorize.net has been severely affected. We could not process any new Pro signups for the last 8 hours. Authorize.net just came back online though and we are now successfully processing monthly and yearly signups. I’ve already emailed the users who tried to sign up this morning to let them know we’re processing cards again.

You can read about the fire at Fisher Plaza here. Companies affected include Authorize.net, Bing, Geocaching.com, Bartell Drugs and many more.

Mark Maunder

Feedjit.com Founder & CEO

As Murphy’s law would have it, just days after we’ve launched our first commercial offering we’ve suffered a complete network outage for 12 minutes. This happened about 10 minutes ago. I’m currently working with our network provider Netriver to find out exactly what happened and to prevent it occurring in future.

For most web companies this would not have a significant impact. But because we provide real-time stats, there is currently a hole in your graphs for the last 60 minutes that lasts about 12 minutes.

This outage did not affect the ability of our customers websites to load. It simply means that your stats were not logged for 12 minutes.

Our sincerest appologies for any inconvenience this has caused.

Mark.

Update:

Netriver has been working with Cisco to resolve this issue. What happened is that Netriver has multiple redundant connections to the Net and has two redundant routers that route their traffic. In a rather unusual incident, both routers went down simultaneously. Here is the incident log:

Network Event times are approximate:
·         6:15 one of our core routers rebooted.
·         6:18 the router was back online.
·         6:25 we discovered the other core router was hung with a memory issue.
·         6:30 – 6:40 Tried to correct the memory issue unsuccessfully. We then made the decision to copy off the logging on the router and reboot.
·         6:43 rebooted router.
·         6:48 router was back online.

Netriver has multiple tickets open with Cisco to try and resolve the issue and Cisco have already responded with a diagnosis. Netriver is implementing Cisco’s recommendations to prevent this happening in future.

Feedjit, Netriver and Netriver’s upstream providers run redundant systems at every level from the application to infrastructure. This incident is highly unusual and the impact was minimal thanks to the quick reactions of the Netriver team. Both Feedjit and Netriver are taking steps to ensure this doesn’t happen again in future. Once again we apologize if the 12 minutes of down-time caused you any inconvenience.

Mark Maunder - Feedjit Founder & CEO.

If you haven’t already done it, sign up for Pro here:

http://feedjit.com/pro/join/

We’re also running a limited time special that gives you Pro for $6.95 per month.

Mark.

We’re really excited to have the product see the light of day. It’s taken 6 months of hard work and has some first-to-market features that are only available from us. Pro and Webmaster are identical except that with Pro we allow up to 1 Million page impressions per month and Webmaster gives you 10 Million.

Live Streaming Traffic

Like our free visible widget Pro offers live streaming traffic, but with much more. The main differences are that along with visits you can also watch individual page views as someone surfs through your site. You can also filter out New vs Returning visitors and you can choose to “bump” visits that get another page view to the top of the list.

Feedjit Pro users are also on a higher priority server cluster. The main way this will affect you is that if you have an extremely busy website (more than 3 hits per second) you are gauranteed to see every visit and page view that comes through.

Live Events

This is my personal favorite feature. Events shows you first time events that occur on your site and they are pushed out to your browser as they happen just like Live Traffic pushes out visits. So lets say you’ve just written a new blog entry and you want to see who links to you. Go to Live Events, click the “Referring Pages” tab and kick back and watch as we will alert you the instant a new web page sends you a visitor.

We show live events for new search keywords, new referring pages, new referring sites, new cities who have visited your site for the first time, new countries and traffic records.

Insight

Feedjit Insight is a first-to-market product that you won’t see anywhere else. You give Insight a list of URLs (web page addresses) to monitor and we will show you how many of your visitors have visited one of those URL’s. You can group URL’s too, so for example you can create a “Social Networkers” group and add the URLs for MySpace, Facebook, Hi5 and any other social networking site you know of. Then you can select that group and see a graph of how many people who have visited one of those sites have visited your site. You can also graph page views, bounce rate, first time visitors, returning visitors, stickiness (the opposite of bounce rate), average time on site and average page views per visit.

This is an incredibly powerful feature and it works no matter what browser a visitor is running or what operating system they are on.

Insight can give you powerful competitive information - like how many of your visitors have visited your competitors website. Or even better: how many of your visitors have visited a certain product page on Amazon.com and what the bounce rate for those people is on your website. Try and do that with any other product.

Email alerts

We offer email alerts for just about anything. Want to set up an alert if your per-minute traffic rate hits a new records? No problem! And when we send you the alert, we’ll include the top sites that are sending you traffic so you can see where all your new visitors are coming from. We offer event alerts, so we can email you if you:

• Get a visitor from a new web page
• Get a visitor from a new web site
• Break a per-minute, hour or daily traffic record
• Are visited by a new city or country for the first time
• Get a visitor who used a new search term

You can also set up alerts to email you if you get a visitor from a specific city, web page or if someone hits a specific web page on your site. And you can set up email alerts for specific search terms.

For power users we support Perl style regular expression for pattern matching in our alerts.

All the standard stuff, but it’s all real-time

We offer all the standard stats that most good website stats packages offer, except they’re all up to the second real-time. These include:

• Absolute uniques, traffic depth, site stickiness, site bounce rate
• Real-time per page traffic including per-page bounce rates, uniques, visits, page views and much more
• Site visits and page views, new vs returning, time on site
• Detailed referrer traffic, search traffic, geo (city and country) traffic, language traffic and browsers and OS

Unlimited domains and priority email support

All our Pro and Webmaster users can add feedjit to an unlimited number of websites and get access to our priority email support system.

You can sign-up for Pro or Webmaster by visiting this page. We hope you enjoy Pro as much as we enjoyed putting it together. We will be adding new features every week, so check this blog often for announcements.

Mark & Kerry - The Feedjit Founders.

I hope you enjoy it!

Mark Maunder - FEEDJIT Founder.

Mark.

We’ve added a link to this feature in the Live Traffic Feed’s “Options” menu. We’ve also put a link on the Geoblogosphere pages.

Enjoy - and as always let us know if you have any feedback by visiting our Contact Us page.

Mark Maunder - Chief FEEDJIT

We are sending your blog new Visitors!

Tonight we launched the Geoblogosphere. It lets you see which FEEDJIT blogs are popular in your city or any city, state or country in the world. If your blog is popular in your town it will appear in the Geoblogosphere for your area.

FEEDJIT is used by hundreds of thousands of bloggers world-wide. And across all those sites we track hundreds of Millions of readers. So a few months ago we decided to shove all that data into a database and ask it a simple question: What are people reading in my city today? And the answer we got was incredible! When fires were raging in California we discovered a Fireman’s blog with satellite photos of the fire. When the Seattle Sea-Fair was on, the most popular blog in Seattle was about the Hydro Races.

We’ve added a few controls on the right side that help you find local blogs you’re interested in. Check out the Language Filter. Try setting it to a foreign language for a US city or state and you might be surprised at what you find.

If you’d like to see what people are reading within 10 miles of you, change the radius from 60 miles down to 10. You may find a few neighbors who blog.

In the interests of keeping our site child safe, we’ve included an Adult Filter which is enabled by default.

The  second major new feature is:

You can now use the Live Traffic Feed Anywhere!

We launched a new version of the Live Traffic Feed tonight that works anywhere. Literally, anywhere you can paste an image tag. You no longer need your own domain and if your blog host doesn’t allow Flash or Javascript than that’s fine too! The widget is an image that we generate dynamically on our servers each time you load it. So it’ll run anywhere you can put an image.

We got a lot of requests for this from folks on Wordpress.com, MySpace.com and Microsoft’s Live Spaces, so it’s here!

Just like our Javascript Traffic Feed, the Image Traffic Feed widget is fully customizable.

Best of all it includes FEEDJIT Live. Once you’ve installed it, simply click the widget to watch people arrive on your site in real-time.

We hope you enjoy the new features and we’d love to hear your feedback. Let us know what you think by sending us a message on our Contact Page.

Have a great week and we hope you enjoy the new visitors FEEDJIT sends you.

Mark.

Mark.

I filed a bug today with AdBlock and Wladimir, the creator quickly redirected me to Rick who maintains EasyList. Rick quickly fixed the problem and users of AdBlock and EasyList should get the update in the coming days and will see their live traffic feed once they receive the update.

If you’re impatient and want the problem fixed immediately we recommend you disable AdBlock until you receive the update.

Thanks to Rick and Wladimir for helping us to resolve this issue so quickly.

Mark.