Hi Folks,
New StatCounter System – In Beta
We have been working on the new and improved StatCounter SC4 system…now we need your help to test it.
A lot of changes have been made ‘under the hood’ and won’t be immediately apparent; however some of the immediate benefits include:
- Faster Loading Keyword and Country Stats
- Exit Link Stats
- Download Stats
MOST importantly the new system paves the way for other exciting new features … so watch this space!
How do I try out SC4?
It’s easy!
You need to create a new test project. This code should be added underneath your existing StatCounter code.
Note that you should retain your existing StatCounter code for now… Once the new system is fully operational we’ll convert all projects over to SC4 automatically.
To get started:
- Login to StatCounter with the “remember me” option
- Point your browser at this URL
http://my.statcounter.com/project/standard/add.php?sc4=1 - If successful the form should now read “BETA TEST SC4 PROJECT SETTINGS” then proceed as normal to install this new code below your current code.
(Note that if you logout and login again you will be directed back to the current StatCounter system.)
Thanks for your help with this – and we’d be delighted to have your feedback posted to the comments of this blog post.
UPDATE: Thanks for all the feedback so far. As the comments are getting a bit crowded we’ve created a new forum for you to discuss your ideas. Please click here to get talking about SC4! (Note: you need to register a forum account in order to post.)
Let the testing begin!
StatCounter Team
Hello! I would like to volunteer, but every time I click on the link, it takes me back to login and it says “login failed”.
Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thank you!
I have the code for both the old and beta counters on one page and I have been getting different results? Am I missing something?
I want to add the new counter to our website
It’s obviously reporting less visitors, page loads look ok (reporting 0 visitors and a number of page loads, checked right after midnight). other than that, no bugs so far. Thanks for the improvements 🙂
I second Sonja.Bakker fan ♦ A Dutch translation would be great.
I also volunteer for testing.
Rob
The French translation of the instructions is full of grammatical errors and jokes, just so you know..
A request, bring StatCounter in Dutch! I am volunteer to translate 😉
I’ve just included the new code on my pages, and found that:
Even though I ticked off for the “invisible” option, the code I received included the parameter “invisible=” set to 0. I changed this to 1, and it now seems OK.
I loaded a few pages from a client not in my exclude list, and the hits show up on the old counter, but not in the beta.
Thanks, Egil
I have major discrepancies between my old counter and the new. The old is showing 100 hits, and the new only 4. It’s been getting steadily worse, since Saturday.
All right now. It rules 🙂
thanks for the information… keep up the excellent work 🙂
First of all, I’d like to say that I’m glad you not only add new features (the current ones are enough for me), but keep improving existing ones. Good job!
Senseless, you might want to report that to them on forum.
http://forum.statcounter.com/vb/
There’s a part for bug reporting.
Hey My counter went dead or it only seems to record half the counts but if I refresh this post I made http://senseless.livejournal.com/243355.html it doesn’t get recorded although it worked fine a couple days ago. I have a standard Statcounter counter in the post before it and that one counts just fine.
I think this has been going on for a few days because the standard counter shows lots of page hits before and after this post but nothing on the post with the new breed of tracker. I added a second tracker to another post after the SC4 and I get duplicate hits at the same time which means most people are reading my blog from the main page and not as individual posts. I get my standard traffic but the SC4 is only recording a handfull of hits everyday.
I hope this makes some sense. Is it a bug?
Code installed and new account created, but all the counters at 0. Seems that it doesn’t work.
I’d like to test SC4 ^^
Ok
Installed the code. The Large and Stylish fonts are not selectable, when I do, and click “update” to preview the counter, those settings are missing.
Also, the transparent background seems to be missing.
I’m in. I know how hard it is to find beta testers, so I’m all for it!
I’ll let you know how it goes! So far, the normal counter is awesome!
My beta counter did a good job the first few days but since a day or 3 to 4 the difference with the old one it shows a few hundred to a few thousand visitors less than the old counter!!!!
I compared it with Google Analytics which I also use for comparison. The old Statcounter was closer to Google totals and the new one was really not even close!
Today (Saturday) my entire site was messed up because all of a sudden the new script seems to want to show text; a sort of hidden image and hyperlink in every page. We wanted an invisible counter but alas.. We had to remove the beta counter script in order to keep measuring. The layout of a lot of pages was stretched (statcounter script used for ‘alt’)
Best thing I like are the new extras: the exit links and downloads!! I just hope you will be able to fix all bugs soon so we can use it without worries..
the beta version is not working since thursday
My visitor count for the beta is significantly lower than for SC3. This is very concerning as I would hate to report back to my team that our visits have dropped by 20% when they haven’t (or worse, that they were actually 20% lower!)