Earlier today I introduced a much faster List View of all cligs. The new List View fixed a few bugs and improved the loading speed of the cligs for accounts with lots of cligs and associated data. However, it removed the hit counts from the list, and this was never a permanent change.

The balance I’m trying to strike is between:

• Building a resource intensive page quickly enough so that browsers don’t hang and the connections don’t time out
• Useful functionality that Cligs users want

I won’t choose and as of now, there are two variations of the List View:

• A Fast List View without hit counts for large user accounts. This is the default list view.
• A Slow List View that includes the hit counts for users willing to wait while a very big page loads. If your have lots of cligs with lots of hits, it is very likely this view will time out.

You choose which one to load depending on your needs!

I have no doubt this will not close the story. Please continue to email me feedback and I’ll take your thoughts into consideration to evolve this feature. Pagination is probably the next improvement.

There is no easy way to put this: a lot of users absolutely hated the new black design that became public when Cligs moved. Words like “claustrophobic” and calling the interface “not clean” were used to describe the UI. Shame, as the interface is much better laid out to present the analytics, and also has space for new analytics to be added in the future.

This brings us to the crux of the problem: people have been (mostly) lashing out against the colors, not the layout. Yes some users gave specific feedback about the layout (and even the fonts in use!), but it’s mostly about the colors.

So as of now, Cligs has a modified theme: it’s has a white background and has a few colors changes to make it work with this major change. Not only that, the black is gone from the page background but also from the clig analytics square/tabs.

This really makes the pages feel different, and I hope you continue to give feedback. You know where to find me.

Carrying on, there is a new Cligs List View. This view is where you can see a table with all your cligs in one place. The previous incarnation of this page was slow and had a couple of bugs. These are now fixed and the page loads much faster.

I’ve added a total clig count to the top of the view so you know how many cligs are in your account (this count will be visible on other pages too in the near future).

Part of what makes the page load faster is the removal of the hit count for each clig. This was causing all sorts of browser and server issues; most notably Firefox used to hang when loading the data for accounts with a large number of cligs. On my personal account for example, I have ~900 cligs and that always made Firefox hang half way through loading and now it doesn’t.

Two new improvements for existing analytics today:

Improved Bot Detection and Analytics

This improvement has multiple parts, and each will affect the analytics massively:

• Cligs can now detect thousands more bot clicks than previously, which dramatically improves the analytics.
• Unfortunately, for now this detection is only for cligs created from now onwards. There is more to do to make the bot detector even more accurate, and the better detection will be applied to your older cligs too then.
• Important: The Cligs analytics (the Executive Summary, Geo Analytics, Referrers, and Social Media) now only show human clicks. Bot hits are completely ignored unless you’re specifically looking at the Bot Analytics tab. The upshot is that your click counts will be significantly lower, as the analytics are now ignoring a large part of the traffic. To see the total traffic, the breakdown is shown in the Bots analytics tab.
• I’m keen to hear your suggestions and feedback on this feature and the analytics in general. Please just let me know your thoughts.

Bug Fix: Referral Analytics

A user noted an inconsistency between the total traffic reported in the Executive Summary and the total traffic reported in the Referrers tab. On investigation, I found that the referrers reporting was not returning the full list of referrers as it should, and that’s now fixed.

Several people reported that cligs was not letting them edit cligs, be it titles or destinations. Others were reporting issues deleting cligs. Both should now be fully working.

Please continue to report any bugs and inconsistencies and unexpected behavior. It’s impossible to test for every single use case and work flow variation, and so if you see something please report it and I’ll take care of it. Thanks!