tinylytics

I tweaked the way the embed script loads for tinylytics. I can see a few problems where you update a theme or plugin on Micro.blog and it'll wipe the ID from your settings.

If that happens, it'll call this URL: `/embed/.js`. That's wrong and you should obviously make sure to use your correct site id after updating, but now it'll try and find your site from the inbound data.

It's not perfect though... Over the weekend I'll implemented an email that goes out once it tries and load your site this way so you can make sure to correct this.

Further I might limit this, to the amount of times it loads the script this way before disabling the script load. Hence the email reminder to check the settings.

If you've recently updated your Micro.blog theme or plugin that uses Tinylytics, please make sure your embed code still has your site specific ID. I can see a few requests with blank embed codes 😋

I added some text on "Why we have a free plan" for tinylytics and is also linked under the free plan benefits. Let me know what you think. Feedback is welcome.

I see a lot of sites saying "free is not free, you're basically selling your soul". No such soul selling, that I know of, here.

Most likely shipping timezone support next week, or end of November, for tinylytics.

Today I kindly rejected a site, and also removed one, from the tinylytics webring. The rejected one didn't meet the criteria of "personal" site, and here is what I'll do to address that in future because I kinda feel it's quite limited right now:

• Explore ways to make the webring more interest based, by allowing you to categorise your site in one or more categories, for example: "Tech news", "Journalism" etc.
• Allow users to tailor their webring content that appears on their site depending on their categories of choice or "all".
• Make it clearer that the webring is intended for personal sites.

Took me a few days to make that decision and come up with a plan. But let me know what you think. Still early days with everything...

How I know it's the weekend? Webring requests from sites on tinylytics 😋

One of these days tinylytics will get a new logo. Today is not that day. I wish I knew a dependable logo designer friend/buddy.

I'm sending out another tinylytics newsletter today. It's around 1,000 words. Feel free to subscribe or check out past editions. Informal, and nothing too serious.

So much fun to see these pop up on my site from the tinylytics webring 😍

P.S These are only a small subset!

Sunday evening, and you can now add a path to an ignore list for your site in tinylytics, which means any hits coming in with that path are... ignored. Super easy. Just select "ignore path" when you filter by path and save. Optionally you can delete previous hits. Edit your list via "settings".

I've updated the tinylytics documentation to include details on how to display webring avatars. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions. It'll only work for sites that did upload a site avatar (and have it enabled for the webring).

Alongside the public stats changes to tinylytics, I've also added some extra options for site avatars so you can control where they show up. By default it'll show in the webring and also the stats page. Feel free to toggle that suits you best.

Happy Sunday! Today I worked on a request, on tinylytics, to be able to show the uptime status on a public stats page. So here we go. Thank you for the suggestion ✌️❤️

Just enable it on your site settings page under "Public stats":

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Following up the work on adding site images to tinylytics yesterday, I'm working on adding support to display "avatars" within the webring embed. It works pretty well, and requires a few markup tweaks to fit your site (because I don't want to mess with your design). Here's a local test:

One more small feature for tinylytics today. You can now add a site icon to your site. It'll allow you to visually see your stats in a list, makes it look nice, and also adds the ability to show this on your public stats page and, soon, allow it to be shown alongside the webring.

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