Pulse (ELM5) Beta Release

February 26, 2008 on 1:28 pm | In General News, Module Releases/New Features |

A beta release of Pulse was made available earlier this week and we are now ready to make it more widely available. There are still some features we are adding, e.g. better pagination of long reports, more user options, but in terms of data collection, the module appears to be working well. Installing the beta will not jeopardize your data–each new release will retain your existing data. Get it here: Pulse - Store Statistics for Merchant 5
With us leaving for the Miva Merchant conference on Wednesday, updates are unlikely to be released during that time frame but we will be covering support.

p.s. Here are some of the forthcoming additions to Pulse:

- hide User Agents from general reports (so they don’t take up as much space). This will be optional though as many people get a buzz when the search bots show up

- truncate/wrap long referer* urls (need this in order to prevent long urls from bleeding)

- add pagination to long reports

These have already been partially implemented so we hope to have them available in the next update.

* Did you know that “Referer is a common misspelling of the word referrer. It is so common, in fact, that it made it into the official specification of HTTP – the communication protocol of the World Wide Web – and has therefore become the standard industry spelling when discussing HTTP referers.”?

Thanks Wikipedia.

Update 03/05/08: we’re back from the Miva Merchant conference and working on Pulse. Today we have added a product name field with sorting to the Product Stats, fixed a bug that arises when you are blocking IP addresses, and changed to Order Stats referer so that it picks up the initial referer–the site the visitor came from rather than the page that lead them to the checkout. (In hindsight, it’s obvious that’s what it should have been doing but these things sometimes get overlooked when you’re knee deep in the code!) There isn’t an update as yet as we also want to include a handful of other tweaks and fixes.