We got a map

We re-organized things a bit, you may notice a new "Locale" tab. This is where all the country, city, language etc stuff has been moved to. We also added a new sub-tab, called "Regions", but data only started tracking yesterday for it. When you first click the Locale tab, you will see a new map that we've added to the system:

The darker a country is, the more visitors you have had from that country, for the selected date range. You can mouse over any country to get the number of visitors. You can also click on a country which will zoom into that region:

We wanted to add zooming into individual countries, but the API for this product (FusionMaps) is so terrible and inconsistent that it would literally take about 5000 man hours of work to do that. Unless we wanted to spend a billion dollars, there are surprisingly few products of this nature. This one was has the most features and is by far the best looking so it's what we chose. If only the API was a bit more friendly...

We did however add in support for zooming into the United States, as we do have a lot of US customers. And there was actually consistency here, between the Maxmind database and the API, so it was easy to do. Looks pretty good, although I'm not so sure our international customers will be happy with us only supporting our own country. Sorry :P

States are part of the "Regions" data mentioned earlier, so you can't view data for this prior to Sep 18.

For everyone dying from anticipation for goals and campaign tracking, they are already in progress, don't you worry about a thing now.

15 comments | Sep 19 2008 3:46pm

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Hi,

Thanks, it looks great.

Can you tell me where the "Activity" tab has been moved to? Before this update, it was to the right of the visitors tab.

RK Sep 19 2008 10:41pm

It's actually the "Actions" tab, I mistermed it as "Activity" in my earlier comment.

Thanks!

RK Sep 19 2008 10:43pm

Hi,

I would recommend to have a look at amMap - http://www.ammap.com. In Examples section there is a list of ready maps that includes a lot of countries (at least, more than USA :). It's a good and reasonably priced Flash map library.

Besides that, there's also amCharts from the same creator - a powerful Flash charting library.

Eugene Sep 20 2008 1:48am

You guessed it Sean. Not that happy that I can't zoom in on UK regions but what exactly does this do anyway? When I click on a state it doesn't show me the visitor data.

Firefox 3 OS X.

Adam Sep 20 2008 2:53am

Nice work... :) Keep it up

-Sumit Ojha
www.glowindia.com

Sumit Ojha Sep 20 2008 2:58am

RK it's been moved under the visitors tab.

Eugene we looked at everything, including amMap - it looks ok but it didn't do everything we wanted to do.

Adam, what do you mean what does it do? Um, it shows your distribution of visitors on a map? We are considering adding some major European countries to zoom in and break down by region and perhaps city, but we'll see how our testing goes.

Sean (Clicky) Sep 20 2008 9:43am

I was expecting to be able to click on the countries and see the stats not just see that I've had 1 visitor from Bangladesh - but rather see who that person was and what they did.

Adam Sep 20 2008 11:09am

Thank Sean, found it there.

RK

RK Sep 20 2008 12:12pm

Hi Sean,

By the way, keep up the great work!!

I've been thinking of telling you how wonderful Clicky was but didn't take time to tell you until now.

RK

RK Sep 20 2008 12:17pm

Does this contain historical data? Or just data since the date you launched the new map feature?

adam Sep 22 2008 4:10pm

We only started tracking regions and US states on Friday, but country data goes back to when you first signed up.

Sean (Clicky) Sep 22 2008 4:35pm

Do you plan to have recent visitor map widget (like f.e. FEEDJIT) in any near future? Sometimes it is very usefull to show worldwide audience by map.

FCI328 Sep 23 2008 10:19am

We've thought about it but not sure right now.

Sean (Clicky) Sep 23 2008 5:03pm

Hi, Im a Clicky user for at least 2 years now and I have noticed a fault in the plugin offered byyou guys, I have some other visitor counters from other companies and the do show how many people have been to my page lately while Clicky doesnt show anything, it seems to have som sort of 24 delay. Would you check if there's something wrong with the real time tracker? Is this delay normal for non premium users?
I've set my tracker to show the last 7 days as well, but it doesnt seem to have any effect.
Thanks in advance.

Ricardo Cezar Sep 25 2008 10:38pm

Do a "view source" on your web page and try to find "getclicky". If you can't find it, then either the plugin got deactivated, or it's not compatible with your WP install (I hear it doesn't work right with 2.6)

Sean (Clicky) Sep 26 2008 12:01pm

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