Need to see who's been on your website in the last day? Week? Month? Want to monitor your website's traffic without having to read a manual first? Want an elegant web analytics solution that updates in minutes rather than hours and works beautifully on all devices? Maybe you should check out Trends.

Since we first launched LiveStats, our web app for monitoring your website's traffic in real-time, we've been determined to figure out how to store historical data at a large scale. Due to the number of sites we serve, and the speed at which we store data for quick retrieval, it's been a huge challenge but we've finally figured it out.

What is Trends?

Trends is a web app for monitoring your website's historical traffic data. All the information you need is easily readable and quickly scannable with bold graphs and readable lists. There's a separate Widget for every metric (like referrers, visitors or top content), making it easy for the whole team to know what's been popular and what's not on your website.

Open Standards

There's not an ounce of Flash in Trends, or any of GoSquared. We're really proud of the graphing engine behind Trends. Because we haven't used Flash, graphs in Trends display just as well on your desktop as it does on your iPhone or iPad. These are the best charts in a web-based analytics service anywhere on the web.

Customisable Interface

The interface of Trends consists of a series of beautiful, easy-to-use Widgets. You can set up every Widget just as you want - choose the time frame for your stats, whether you want to look at a graph, pie chart, bar chart, or just the figures, and even move the Widgets around. Trends will change to suit you. The whole interface will stay the way you set it when you return - every Widget, every state, every time frame will be remembered so you can jump back in where you left off.

Part of GoSquared

As we wrote recently, Trends may be a separate app, but when you sign up to GoSquared you get both LiveStats and Trends as part of the package. You can sign up for GoSquared for free, or if you need more pageviews there's a series of affordable premium plans starting at just $9.99/month.

Check out the Plans and Pricing now - every plan has a 30 day free trial, and you can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel at any time.

Enjoy!

James Gill, Geoff Wagstaff, James Taylor
A.K.A. The GoSquared Team

Your chance to earn money from GoSquared has arrived. Today we announce the release of our Affiliate program, which enables you to earn cash from promoting LiveStats to your audience. Upon referral of a paying customer, you'll receive a cut of up to 50% of the amount paid.

If you're already a member of GoSquared, you're already set up to start earning money. If not, sign up now and you'll be ready to start earning in under 60 seconds. On the Affiliates Dashboard, you're given a unique affiliate URL and a selection of banners we've carefully designed for you to use on your web pages to promote LiveStats to your audience. Every time someone purchases a LiveStats plan, you'll receive a tasty slice of the pie.

We've been busy

We've been working hard behind the scenes for the past few months, making countless improvements and feature additions to the underlying infrastructure of our system. Our improvements to infrastructure have been largely focused around increasing performance and developing a more scalable platform to build upon. The front-end changes have been subtle, but we're starting to roll out better navigation within GoSquared Account screens and between GoSquared apps such as LiveStats and Site Manager.

Map View for the Masses

Until now, Map View was only available to Standard and Pro users. Starting today, all LiveStats users will be able to experience the power of LiveStats' real-time geolocation panel first hand. Observe exactly where your visitors are browsing from, in the context of time of day, by navigating the beautiful interactive world map.

Dramatically Improved Performance

In our minds, performance is the key. That's why we always design our applications and the engines powering them with performance as a top priority. Recently we've made a bunch of tweaks under the hood to make LiveStats more streamlined. Now you can enjoy faster loading times as the LiveStats loading bar slices swiftly across your screen when the application starts up.

New and Improved Signup Process

We've redesigned the way new users get started with LiveStats. Implementing that tracking code can be a tricky business, so we do our best to guide them through the process in a clear and concise way when they first run the application. First impressions are the most important.

Check out the sign up and welcome process for yourself - sign up for LiveStats now.

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We're pleased to announce the release of the LiveStats for WordPress plugin for WordPress blogs.

WordPress site owners can install this plugin to easily implement the GoSquared Tracking Code required to use our traffic monitoring apps. The plugin is available from the WordPress Plugin Directory and future updates will also be made available there.

Note: If you've already integrated the GSTC into your WordPress theme's template files, you should remove it before installing the LiveStats for WordPress plugin.

Today we're incredibly excited to announce an entirely new product from GoSquared - FutureStats.

We've been working on our second app for many many months, and we think you're gonna love the features we've been sweating over. FutureStats is the ideal companion to anyone already using LiveStats.

Spike Prediction

One of the most challenging issues of the web 2.0 era - the traffic spike. Until now it's been impossible to predict when you're going to receive your next flood of traffic from Digg, a Fireball, or Twitter. Worry no more.

Twitter Reaction Forecast

Worried that what you're writing will be controversial, poorly received, or simply just ignored? Find out in advance how the Twitterverse will react to your Site's content, even if you haven't written it yet.

Member Prediction

Accurately predict the number of new users you'll receive tomorrow, next week, or next month. Even find out their names and emails before they ever signed up. All you need is FutureStats.

PredictionEngine

Patent Pending technology to predict the future of your Site's Stats with 100% Accuracy.

As you may know, dividing by zero can have dangerous, dramatic, and undesirable effects. Don't believe us? Go and try it out, but don't write to us if your computer explodes and destroys your entire neighbourhood). At GoSquared we discovered that if we divided by zero under specially controlled conditions, we could create a small but effective wormhole in the fabric of time and space. By maintaining this wormhole in a high-energy plasma state we are able to pass electrical signals between here and any time in the future we wish. And by ensuring that the other end of the wormhole is continuously connected to a high-speed internet connection, we are able to retrieve browsing data for websites at any time in the future.

In order to cover our energy costs, however, we are not able to enter the product into a free beta to begin with*. From today we are introducing a basic plan (two weeks into the future) which starts at $50,000/month, scaling up to our unlimited plan (watch your browsing stats right up to the end of the universe), priced at just $1337bn**.

Update

This, in case you didn't pick up on it and were blown away by our sudden ability to predict the future, was an April Fools joke. We'll keep the page online, though, for the memories.

LiveStats 2 is here.

We're thrilled today to announce the all new LiveStats 2 - real-time analytics completely rebuilt from the ground up for faster performance, more accurate results, and a more powerful interface.

Here's the press release we sent out this morning:

LiveStats 2 pushes the innovations made in the first version to the next level. This update introduces second-by-second live monitoring of all visitors so there’s no guess work left in discovering whether people are on your Site, actively reading your content, or just have it open in the background.

By monitoring your Site’s traffic in absolute real-time, LiveStats can detect whether a visitor is actively focused on any page on your Site, and whether they have more than one page of your Site open at the same time in separate tabs and windows. You can even see which of the pages the visitor is looking at, gaining an insight into their habits by watching as they jump from page to page in real-time. No other analytics package, real-time or otherwise, offers the ability to view a user as they travel through your Site like this. The experience puts you in the observation tower, while enabling you to observe details that would otherwise only have been achievable by looking over a visitor’s shoulder.

Understanding where your visitors are coming from is easier than ever with the new Map View. As soon as a visitor loads a page on your Site, LiveStats will pinpoint their location to city level accuracy on a beautiful full screen map. We’ve even built in a dynamic daylight line so you can see how your visitors browse your Site at different times of the day in different regions.

The interface of LiveStats is built entirely in open web technologies. We’ve embraced jQuery and Raphaël javascript libraries to build a user experience that many have assumed was Flash based. The simplicity and ease of use of the LiveStats interface completely belies the power and information that can be gained from it.

We believe LiveStats is the best way to find out what’s happening and who’s on your Site right now.

LiveStats is available to everyone and does not require a download. You can sign up for a basic plan to try out the service for free. Premium plans that offer some of the great features of LiveStats 2 such as Map View and Event Tracking start at just $5.99 per month. The ideal plan for most small to medium sized website owners is available for $9.99 per month while there is a professional plan for larger websites and corporate clients for $49.99. These are aggressively priced plans for a service that outclasses our rivals in the real-time analytics market.

As a note to you, our wonderful existing members who have enjoyed LiveStats for free up until now - we will not automatically start charging you. All existing Accounts will remain free for the next 30 days on an unlimited plan, but at the end of these 30 days, if you haven't upgraded to a paid plan, all Sites in your Account will automatically be downgraded to the free LiveStats plan that tracks 5,000 pageviews per month. You can upgrade or downgrade at any time and there are no nasty contracts.

We'll write again this week to explain in more detail how LiveStats 2 is a giant leap forward from version 1. We're really proud of how far we've come, and we believe that this latest release pushes us even further ahead in the real-time web analytics industry.

Enjoy.

James Gill, Geoff Wagstaff, James Taylor
A.K.A. The GoSquared Team

Welcome back to GoSquared - it's an exiting new year and we're pleased to kick it off with a small but helpful new addition to the GoSquared app line up: Site Manager.

Since we launched LiveStats we've had loads of great feedback from you wonderful members, but some of the same requests kept coming up: you wanted to be able to add and remove Sites in your Account easier and to be able to access and change the details associated with them without having to laboriously email us and complain about it.

With Site Manager, we've solved some of these common problems with a fairly sleek and simple to use solution. All of the Sites associated with your Account show up in the sidebar on the left, and you can see their details at a glance by simply clicking on each Site's Preview Image. You can change the name, description, and URL of your Site, and update the Preview Image in a handful of clicks. Your site's GSTC code is also available on the "Tracking code" tab, should you need remind yourself of what it is or how to embed it in your Site's pages.

A new feature we're introducing with this update is the ability for you to invite your friends to GoSquared. Many of you are using LiveStats within organisations (both big and small) and have asked if multiple people can view LiveStats for the same Site on different computers with different accounts. Now you can! Simply invite anyone you know by entering their email and you can share LiveStats for any Site in your Account with as many people as you wish. We really think people in teams working and developing on the same Site are going to love this - whether you're at the home or the office you'll be able to see who's on any of your Sites with LiveStats.

If you're signed in to your GoSquared Account, check out Site Manager here.

That's all for now folks, we hope you like it.

Peace,

James Gill, Geoff Wagstaff, James Taylor
A.K.A. The GoSquared Team.

What a week.

On Tuesday* last week, we finally released LiveStats into the wild - our web app for monitoring your Site's traffic in real-time.

Everything went exactly to plan until Thursday when our good friends at Smashing Magazine decided to tweet about us and the just launched LiveStats. We were really hoping to grow our user base after launch, but could never have imagined the response we would get from that one tweet - in under 10 minutes we received over 1,000 new visitors and in that hour almost 400 sign-ups.

400 signups to our blog wouldn't be too much of an issue, but those new 400 people wanted to add their Site to GoSquared and check out LiveStats for themselves. We thought we were prepared for increased load when we launched LiveStats, but we just didn't expect so many Sites, and so many Sites with such high traffic levels joining in such a short period of time.

Let's not forget that a substantial number of our 400-or-so new users also had more than one Site. You get the message - we were swamped.

There was no way we were going to let any of our lovely new members down, so we went about implementing an extremely long, and still growing, list of performance & reliability improvements:

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Today we're pleased to announce the launch of LiveStats - a web app that lets you see the traffic on your Site in real-time.

Learn more about LiveStats now at http://www.gosquared.com/livestats/

What is LiveStats?

LiveStats is a web app that lets you see who's browsing your Site right now. Without any plugins (like Flash or Silverlight) or any applications to download, LiveStats updates in real-time showing you who's browsing and which pages are being looked at.

It doesn't do graphs. It doesn't do trends. It doesn't do segmentation. It doesn't do event tracking. It tells you everything you need to know about who's on your Site - right now.

Why do I need LiveStats?

We're guessing you already use an analytics solution of some sort - many use Google's Analytics, or Mint by Shaun Inman. These are great for seeing how your traffic has been doing over a period of time in the past. LiveStats isn't meant to replace these tools, but work alongside them.

We found ourselves asking "Who's on our site right now?"

It turns out there aren't many tools that give you simple, useful information like the number of people viewing your site, and what pages they're browsing. LiveStats makes it really easy to get this information quickly - the number of people on your site right now is clearly displayed in the toolbar, and every visitor is represented by a row in the list below.

You can instantly scan the LiveStats interface and see which visitors have been browsing extensively and which have come and gone quickly. Click on a visitor's row to dive deeper into their browsing experience and see more information about them such as what browser they're running, which operating system they use, their screen size, the language they speak, and which country they're from.

You haven't seen LiveStats until you've tried it out on your own Site.

For those of you who have been with GoSquared for a while, you'll also notice a completely rewritten interface. We started from the ground up to build a strong foundation for a new suite of web applications that will help you run a better website, and build a stronger business.

Thanks,

James Gill, Geoff Wagstaff, James Taylor
(a.k.a.) The GoSquared Team.

P.S. We haven't completely forgotten about advertising - we can't wait to tell you what we have planned for November.

A while ago we said we were working on some things.

On Tuesday 27 October we'll be launching LiveStats, a web app for monitoring your site's traffic in real-time. It's been in private beta testing for around a month and we've been improving it with feedback from a number of sites.

On Tuesday we'll be giving access to the first 100 people that apply. Just visit the GoSquared homepage on Tuesday to apply.

Thanks,

The GoSquared Team

So Apple's Media Event (on the memorable date of 09.09.09) is done and dusted, the new iPods are on the shelves of every Apple Store you care to visit, and iTunes 9 is most likely sitting on millions of people's desktops.

But what's changed? I'm pleased to say quite a few things, in varying degrees of magnitude. Most of the changes to the iTunes app itself are subtle, but could be good indicators of where Apple's UI intentions are heading. Then there's the iTunes Store which has seen its biggest overhaul yet. There's no shortage of design tweaks to have a look at and learn from.

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