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Changelog

For upcoming changes see the public roadmap on Trello.

UXWizz 5.3.0 (25 October 2023)

Performance improvements, bug fixes and improved GeoIP precision.
Changes
Improvements:
  • Considerably improved multiple-domains overview loading performance.
  • Updated Country and City GeoIP databases for more accurate geolocation.
Bug fixes:
  • Fix segment header not being displayed on the heatmaps page.
  • Agency: MultiDB – Fix domain total visitors count not showing properly in the multi-domains overview screen.
Internal Development:
  • Refactored the entire codebase to remove @‌material/styling and replaced it with the new MUI v5 sx prop. This made the code cleaner and allows for a quicker component development.

UXWizz 5.2.0 (18 August 2023)

Small fixes, code improvements and an enhanced Agency logo-upload experience.
Changes
Improvements:
  • Agency: Added UI for uploading the logo image for the dashboard (instead of having to paste the base64 image string).
Bug fixes:
  • BUG: Fix dashboard crashing when no domains were added (e.g. after initial setup).
  • UX: Fix currently selected domain changing to first domain in list when going back to overview.
  • Minor fixes for some warnings shown in the JS console related to URL routing.

UXWizz 5.1.0 (3 August 2023)

New language (pt-BR), bug fixes and performance improvements.
Changes
New:
  • Added pt-BR language (thanks to Rodrigo for submitting it).
Improvements:
  • Improved domain selector logic/performance.
Bug fixes:
  • Fixes when the new MultiDB feature is enabled:
    • Fix A/B tests creation
    • Fix viewing events
    • Fix record watched flag
    • Fix domain selector
    • Fix adding/removing tags through the interface
  • Fix domain selector UI sometimes not working.

UXWizz 5.0.1 (25 June 2023)

Quick quality-of-life change for better default date range picker intervals.
Changes
Improvements:
  • Better date range picker intervals.
  • Upgrade internal build package (ParcelJS) to latest version.

🎉 UXWizz 5.0.0 (8 June 2023)

This is a major release! Please backup your files and database before upgrading.
This update introduces multi-database support (Agency version) and a big (mostly invisible for now) code upgrade to React v18 and Material UI v5. Updating to the latest versions of React and MUI not only makes the platform more future-proof, but it also improves the performance and usability of the platform.
Changes
New:
  • Agency: Multi database support - When first setting up the dashboard, you can choose to store the data for each domain in a separate database on the same server.
  • Agency: Multi database servers support - You can now scale the database for new websites or users by adding multiple database servers. Each new domain tracked can have the data stored on any of the listed database servers. Both those changes together can drastically improve performance, security and privacy.
Improvements:
  • Updated interface to MUI V5.
  • Updated internal React to v18 and TypeScript to the latest versions.
  • Replaced DateRangePicker to the PRO one from MUIX.
  • Reduced total dashboard app size (by upgrading the ParcelJS bundler to the latest version).
  • Various small UI fixes and improvements. The UI will be improved even further in v5 (Note: some small UI inconsistencies might still be noticed from the current transition to the new UI framework version).
Bug fixes:
  • Fix SET_USER_MAX_DOMAINS permission not being properly checked.
Other:
  • App paths switched to HashRouter: The routing in the dashboard (URLs) has been changed to HashRouter. This was done to remove the need of .htaccess redirects and improve compatibility with NGINX and other webservers that don’t support URL rewrites. Paths will now look like app**/#/visitors** instead of app**/visitors**. If you get a 404 error accessing the dashboard from your browser history or bookmarks, update the saved URL to include the hash symbol.
WordPress:
  • Fixed a potential warning with undefined $UST_VERSION
  • Use wp-load.php instead of wp-config.php for database connection, as some managed hosting providers don't provide proper wp-config.php files.

UXWizz 4.5.0 (24 October 2022)

Improved admin privacy within the dashboard by either eliminating 3rd party requests or adding the option to disable them.
Changes
New:
  • Settings->Privacy - Disable domain favicon loading - Option to disable loading of domains favicons from icons.duckduckgo.com.
  • Settings->Privacy - Disable new version check - Option to stop the request made on dashboard load to the UXWizz license server that checks whether a new version is available or not.
Improvements:
  • Replaced dashboard Inter Google Font with local font files.
  • Replaced dashboard Material Icons Google Font with local font file.

UXWizz 4.4.1 (29 September 2022)

This update includes mainly Agency version changes, including a Max domains per user feature.
Changes
New:
  • Agency - max domains per user - You can now set a limit on how many domains can an individual user track.
  • New user permission: CHANGE_OWN_DOMAIN_ACCESS - Level 3 users can now change their own domain access (add/remove domain) without being able to do the same for other users.
Improvements:
  • UX: Clicking a domain in the users list now opens the domain settings dropdown (limit, tracking pixel info).
  • Agency: Removed three external links to the UXWizz documentation website in order to better respect the white-label feature. In the future, more documentation will be included locally instead of linking to docs.uxwizz.com.
Bug fixes:
  • Don't show Add tracker info if domain add failed

UXWizz 4.4.0 (12 May 2022)

This update introduces session playback pause and speed controls plus some Agency version improvements and fixes.
Changes
New:
  • New playback controls: session playback can now be paused and sped up by 2x, 4x or 8x.
Improvements:
  • The default link in the (optional) consent pop-up now leads to a local copy of the privacy-policy instead of the UXWizz documentation.
Bug fixes:
  • Fix local links in Agency sidebar being relative to server root instead of UXWizz server root.
  • Fix custom logo in Agency not being used in some locations.
  • Fix login redirect still not working on some servers where $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] doesn't return the correct path.

UXWizz 4.3.2 (23 March 2022)

This is a maintenance update with bug fixes and improvements.
Changes
Improvements:
  • The updates settings page and new version notification are now hidden to users that don't have the UPDATE_PLATFORM permission.
Bug fixes:
  • Fix full-page record playback not working when the recorded page contained the text Error:.
  • Fix a React warning logged during playback.
  • Fix redirect after login being wrong in some server environments.

UXWizz 4.3.1 (10 March 2022)

Hotfix: Fix redirect after login not properly leading to the dashboard.

UXWizz 4.3.0 (4 March 2022)

This update introduces a new feature for the Agency version and improves/fixes some error messages.
IMPORTANT: The permissions levels have changed! See the first item in the "Other" section. Users with level 4 now have more rights!!
Changes
New:
  • Agency version - Custom links in sidebar: You can now add custom links/text in sidebar. Use this to link to your website, promote other services, or link to your own customer's portal.
Bug fixes:
  • Fixed error messages being displayed in the dashboard when the login session expired. Now you are properly redirected to the login page (without having to refresh).
  • Fixed dashboard long error message when using a license for a different variant than the one installed.
  • Agency version - Suppress error message when saving settings without adding a custom logo.
Other:
  • User permissions have been updated. To better separate user roles, now only level 5 users (root) can change the dashboard itself (update, set license key, change tracking settings). Level 4 users (admins) can now also manage user accounts (create/delete users, change domain access). You can not change your own user level. You can not set to others a user level higher than your own.
  • The current dashboard version is now also stored in the ust_meta table, with the key VERSION. This is useful for checking using MySQL which version is currently installed.

UXWizz 4.2.0 (3 December 2021)

This update adds city geolocation, the Russian language and some useful fixes.
Changes
New:
  • City-level IP geolocation. You can now optionally save the city of the visitor in the database. The city is also displayed when you hover the country icon in the visitors list. You can enable city geolocation in the Tracking settings.
  • Translation: Russian language
Improvements:
  • Improved client/server timezone management. Previously, if your MySQL server had a different timezone than your local timezone, when you searched for sessions within a date interval, the date will be sent as is to the server for querying which lead to unexpected results. For example, let's assume you searched from the interface for visits on Tuesday at (eg. now being 9AM on Tuesday) and the server timezone was 10h behind your timezone. The query wouldn't have returned any results as for the server it was still Monday. Solution: The time used for querying is now converted to server time. Following the example above, when you search for "visits from Tuesday 00:00 to 23:59" it will convert the query to server time: "visits from Monday 14:00 to Tuesday 13:59" for a 10h behind offset. This will correctly show the sessions on your local Tuesday.
  • Improve settings text in UI for enabling/disable session recordings to avoid confusion (disabling the "enable full session recordings" setting removes the session playback ability entirely, it does not switch between the default/full tracking systems).
Security:
  • Fixed a non-critical XSS issue (an arbitrary string could be displayed in a dashboard endpoint response if the request headers were tampered, but if JS was written it wouldn't have been executed).
Bug fixes:
  • Fix a case where session playback would not start.

🎉 UXWizz 4.1.0 (9 November 2021)

userTrack has been rebranded to UXWizz. This update includes the branding changes plus some bug fixes.
Changes
New:
  • userTrack is now UXWizz. Most brand text, links and images have been updated with the new name. There might still be some references to "userTrack". You can read more about this change in the blog post.
Bug fixes:
  • Fixed errors on some versions of MariaDB when sql_mode has enabled the ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY flag.
  • Fix server/troubleshoot.php not working due to CSRF checks.
  • Fix notification snackbars not being closable (updated Notistack)
  • Fix a crash in the visitors list when when page size was changed to a smaller value. Also summited the fix as a PR for the material-table-core package.
  • Fixed link to Personal Data Information in the GDPR pop-up showed (if the setting is enabled)

🎉 userTrack 4.0.0 (6 October 2021)

A new, secondary, session-recording system was added. You can now record sessions on dynamic websites and in user areas (behind login screens) when using the new recording system.
Changes
New:
  • Full session-recording system. Added a secondary session recording/playback system that records entire page content and changes. This is based on rrrweb.
    The recordings will be more accurate but take up a lot more space (eg. 20KB/session instead of 100sessions/KB with the default userTrack system)
    To enable this new tracking system please include the new tracker script that contains this recording method (i.e. ust-rr.min.js instead of ust.min.js). Read more about this in the session recording docs.
Improvements:
  • UI: Improve country flags clarity
Bug fixes:
  • Fix German (DE) language flag missing.
  • Fix German language name (Deutsche -> Deutsch)
  • Fix events for clients sometimes showing wrong cached data.

userTrack 3.5.3 (3 August 2021)

  • Fix Event date parsing in Safari (Safari doesn't parse dates in the YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss format).

userTrack 3.5.2 (21 July 2021)

Updated ChartJS to v3. Improved heatmaps and session playback stability.
Changes
Improvements:
  • Updated ChartJS to the new v3 release.
  • Improved iframe loading stability (for viewing heatmaps and session recordings).
  • Improved support for tracking pages with non-standard characters (eg. Chinese characters) in their URL.
  • Improved chart tooltips and date formats.

userTrack 3.5.1 (19 June 2021)

Updated userTrack branding (new logo). Improved build tools and added an agency version.
Changes
New:
  • Agency version - there is now a separate userTrack build for the Agency version, which for now includes the branding (whitelabel) feature.
Improvements:
  • Updated branding (logo) to the new version.
  • Implemented a one-time info/tutorial system for displaying tips inside the dashboard.
  • An info modal/warning is displayed the first time you play a session recording.
  • Development only: improved some build and localization tools, this should increase the rate of future userTrack updates.

🎉 userTrack 3.5.0 (16 April 2021)

Introducing a brand new events system, an important security improvement and some small fixes.
This update includes changes to tracker.js.
ust.min.js will be updated so make sure to clear all relevant caches so users load the latest tracker file.
Updating the tracker include code, which already contains a cache-breaker is the best way to clear the cache. (eg. ust.min.js?v=3.5.0)
Changes
New:
  • Events system. You can use events to track sales, errors or any arbitrary data for each user. Read more details here: https://docs.usertrack.net/api/events More graphs and filtering options for events will be added soon.
Improvements:
  • Added a setting to toggle URI encoding for the recording data sent via the tracking pixel. Please enable this if your firewall (such as Sucuri) blocks non-encoded parameters in the URL.
  • Improved query peformance for retrieving the list of visitors.
Security:
  • Added Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection. This is pre-emptive measure, which stops the possibility of someone tricking you into clicking an external link/button that executes an existing action on your userTrack dashboard.
Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a rare timing issue, when sometimes loading the dashboard showed an error if a request took too long to load.

userTrack 3.4.4 (17 March 2021)

Added bot filtering, some improvements for the WordPress version, new translations and some fixes.
This update includes changes to tracker.js.
ust.min.js will be updated so make sure to clear all relevant caches so users load the latest tracker file.
Updating the tracker include code, which already contains a cache-breaker is the best way to clear the cache. (eg. ust.min.js?v=3.4.4)
Changes
New:
  • Bot filtering - Bots are now automatically excluded from tracking based on the UserAgent string.
  • New languages: French, Spanish and Portuguese - Those were mostly automatically translated, if you find issues you can submit fixes on the userTrack translation repository.
Improvements:
  • Added no-cache headers to all PHP files to avoid potential caching issues with specific server configurations.
Bug fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where the trial could not be automatically upgraded to the full version if it has already expired.
  • Fixed missing translations for time intervals (eg. date, hour).
Other:
  • Marketing/sales: Added a 7 days trial version of userTrack which can be upgraded automatically to the full version.
WordPress:
  • NEW: Ability to disable tracking for specific user categories (visitors/logged-in users/admins)
  • Improved tracking settings loading performance.
  • Improved tracking settings UI.

userTrack 3.4.3 (23 February 2021)

Introducing JavaScript hooks which can be used on your website to read userTrack activity. More UX improvements.
This update includes changes to tracker.js.
ust.min.js will be updated so make sure to clear all relevant caches so users load the latest tracker file.
Updating the tracker include code, which already contains a cache-breaker is the best way to clear the cache. (eg. ust.min.js?v=3.4.3)
Changes
New:
  • JS Callbacks. Added JavaScript callbacks/hooks you can register to. Using them you can extend or implement custom userTrack functionality on your site. Check out the JS Callbacks docs.
Improvements:
  • UX: You can now update filters such as tags, pages in existing segments by clicking on them.
  • UX: You can now click on pages in the visitors list to add them to the current segment filter.
  • Better accuracy for user IP detection (if the IP is sent in the HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP or HTTP_X_SUCURI_CLIENTIP headers).

userTrack 3.4.2 (4 February 2021)

Hotfix for 3.4.1 Fixes Pages autocomplete query not working on some MySQL instances. Fixes timeseries loading bar not appearing

userTrack 3.4.1 (4 February 2021)

Improved tracking settings, some tracking fixes and UI improvements.
This update includes changes to tracker.js.
ust.min.js will be updated so make sure to clear all relevant caches so users load the latest tracker file.
Updating the tracker include code, which already contains a cache-breaker is the best way to clear the cache. (eg. ust.min.js?v=3.4.1)
Changes
New:
  • Added setting to enable/disable session recordings. You can now enable/disable full session recording from the settings UI while still tracking basic pageviews stats. You can also independently enable/disable heatmaps.
Improvements:
  • UI: Simplified segment context menu. Now only the icons are shown for segment actions (new, copy, rename, delete).
  • Improved pages filter autocomplete performance when having many unique pages stored. Now only 50 URLs are loaded initially and then the rest is dynamically fetched. Responses are also cached until you refresh the dashboard, so typing twice the same page query won't hit the server again.
  • Improved the pixel tracker batching logic. It now sends data less often. It should still be accurate, but should result in 30-50% fewer requests sent for longer sessions.
Bug fixes:
  • Important: Fixed record keyboard setting being always false. The setting was saved in DB with the key recordKey but the JavaScript tracker file was reading recordKeyboard.
  • Fixed pages still not being ordered sometimes in session playback (ORDER BY clause was wrong).
Other:
  • The "Visitors" graph is now called "Visits" as it currently shows the number of sessions, not of unique visitors. An unique visitors graph will be added soon.

🎉 userTrack 3.4.0 (8 January 2021)

Improved heatmaps UI. Several bug fixes and performance improvements.
This update includes changes to tracker.js.
ust.min.js will be updated so make sure to clear all relevant caches so users load the latest tracker file.
Updating the tracker include code, which already contains a cache-breaker is the best way to clear the cache. (eg. ust.min.js?v=3.4.0)
Changes
New:
  • Heatmaps by device filter. Added device buttons to the heatmaps interface so you can quickly select and view data based on visitors' screen size. Previously you had to manually select both iframe width and page width filter. Selecting a device automatically sets those two values.
Improvements:
  • When viewing heatmaps, changing the current page by clicking a link on the site now automatically loads the heatmap data for that specific page
  • Improved overall dashboard queries performance (especially for larger databases)
Bug fixes:
  • Fixed page scroll sometimes not being recorded in playback if the website scrollbar was happening on the body instead of the window.
  • Fixed pages order in playback not always being correct.

userTrack 3.3.2 (23 December 2020)

More query performance improvements. The dashboard should be REALLY fast now.
Changes
Improvements:
  • Improved query performance for top referrers.
  • Improved query performance for top pages.
  • Improved query performance for domain total stats.
  • Improved query performance for bounce rate graph.
Bug fixes:
  • Fixed some graphs not updating when changing domains from the top-left domain selector.

userTrack 3.3.1 (11 December 2020)

Some query performance improvements.
Changes
Performance improvements:
  • Visitors list performance drastically improved for big databases.
  • Top pages query performance increased by 5x.
  • Filtering for exact page visited query performance increased by 2x.
  • Drastically improved the performance of the visitors limit query (the one that deletes old users when limit is reached).

userTrack 3.3.0 (1 December 2020)

Graphs data can now be grouped by hour, day, week or month. Other minor improvements and bug fixes.
Changes
New:
  • Time intervals for charts. You can now change the time intervals for timeline charts to be grouped by Hour, Day, Week or Month.
Improvements:
  • Tags are now sorted by time instead of alphabetically, this means that you can now see the order in which events happened.
  • UI: Month name is now displayed in short format in the date range picker (Sept. instead of September) for better space usage.
  • UI: Reduced chart legend length below chart title (only shows segment name now). Detailed legend (chart title + segment name) is still displayed in the hover tooltip.
Bug fixes:
  • sessionStorage is now used instead of localStorage to store user and session recording data. This should fix some issues when the user opens the site in multiple tabs (as sessionStorage is unique per tab but localStorage was shared.

userTrack 3.2.9 (5 November 2020)

Drastically improved visitors list query performance and added session length filter.
Changes
New:
  • Session length filter. You can now filter sessions with a specific sessions length.
Improvements:
  • Improved dashboard loading speed by always caching the bundled CSS/JS. It's safe to always cache them as each new build has a hashed/distinct bundle filename.
  • Drastically improved visitors list loading time, especially when using a larger page size (eg: 100 rows)
Bug fixes:
  • Fix not being able to add more than two page filters

userTrack 3.2.8 (27 October 2020)

Added new summary stats per segment to easier understand and compare them.
Comparing All visitors vs those who came from any Google domain
Changes
New:
  • Summary stats. In the statistics page, for each segment it will now also be displayed: the total number of visitors, pageviews, average session length and average bounce rate.
Improvements:
  • Referrer links act more like links now, meaning that you can middle or right click a referrer in the Top referrers or Visitors lists to open that page in a new tab.
Bug fixes:
  • Fixed some translation issues for the German locale.

userTrack 3.2.7 (9 October 2020)

This update introduces more privacy features, the ability to filter all sessions from a single user and some UX improvements for the visitors list.
Changes
New:
  • Anonymize IP. You can now choose to hash IPs before they are stored in the database for increased user privacy. The hash also includes the UserAgent string to avoid false positives. I strongly recommend using this feature.
  • Filter by IP. You can now easily filter all sessions for a user based on IP (or hashed IP). Now that the IP can be anonymized, this allows you to see multiple visits of a single user without affecting a specific user's privacy.
Improvements:
  • Updated the AB testing tracker code to be included. It now hides the page using opacity: 0 instead of visibility: hidden as it results in less content flashing in most browsers.
  • Default settings: Hash user IP and Censor visible IP settings are enabled by default to increase user privacy.
  • UX: Number of rows per page in visitors list is now cached in localStorage.
  • UX: Page index currently being viewed in visitors list is now stored in the URL. This means that you can now refresh or use the browser back button and you will stay on the same page number.
  • Performance: Improved visitors list loading performance (previously the list was requested multiple times, thus putting more stress on the server)
Bug fixes:
  • Fixed some translation issues for the Dutch locale.

userTrack 3.2.6 (24 August 2020)

This update introduces wildcard filters for referrers, German language, some performance improvements and a heatmap fix.
Changes
New:
  • Wildcard referrer filter. You can now search for a referrer using a start or an end wildcard (similar to the pages search). This is very useful as you can now add *google.* as a segment's referrer filter, and it will match all international Google domains (eg. google.com, google.de, google.es, etc.)
  • Translation: German language
Improvements:
  • Improved tracking performance of a new user (removed one DB query).
Bug fixes:
  • Fix heatmap points position: static positioning was not correctly storing the relative X values.
  • Fix tracking error on some PHP versions, when notices are enabled (in createClient.php:70)

userTrack 3.2.5 (17 August 2020)

This update introduces improvements to the translation system and adds the Dutch language.
Changes
New:
  • Dutch language
Improvements:
Bug fixes:
  • Fix update .htaccess file not working on some server configurations.

userTrack 3.2.4 (10 August 2020)

This is mainly an update for the WordPress version. The auto-updater has also been added to the userTrack WordPress plugin.
Changes
New:
  • Auto-updater on WordPress. The same auto-updater that was added in 3.2.0 for the standalone version is now also available in the WordPress version.
Bug fixes:
  • Fixed an issue with A/B tests were the last previewed variant was used during playback instead of the A/B variants the user saw.
WordPress:
  • Auto-updater was added (as mentioned above).
  • You can now deselect all checkboxes in the Pages to track menu if you don't want the tracker file to be automatically included. Previously at least one checkbox had to be selected.

userTrack 3.2.3 (3 August 2020)

This update includes small improvements and bug fixes.
Changes
New:
  • URL tracking opt-out. Users can opt out (or in) from being tracked by your userTrack instance by accessing any URL where your tracker is installed with the query parameter ust-opt-out or ust-opt-in.
    eg. site.com?ust-opt-out
Improvements:
  • Slightly improved tracking performance and accuracy.
  • For URL Favicons images use DuckDuckGo URL instead Google.
Bug fixes:
  • Fix scroll playback offset sometimes not saving last scroll position.

userTrack 3.2.2 (1 August 2020)

Hot fixes for latest 3.2.0 release.
Changes
Bug fixes:
  • Always show errors while updating.
  • Fix wrong upcoming version number shown in UI.

userTrack 3.2.1 (1 August 2020)

Hot fixes for latest 3.2.0 release.
Changes
Bug fixes:
  • Fix default relative tracking setting being false.
  • Fix settings save not working.

🎉userTrack 3.2.0 (1 August 2020)

This update introduces automatic updates. You will now be able to update your userTrack dashboard with one click.
Changes

New:

  • Automatic updates. A notification will appear in the dashboard when a new userTrack update is ready. To update the installation go to Settings->Updates->Update now. A valid license key is required.
Important changes:
  • Tracking settings are now stored in the database instead of the tracker.js file. This means that you can now safely replace/update the file without losing your personalized settings.
Bug fixes:
  • Fix tracker throwing an error when a radio button or select was clicked.
WordPress version:
  • This update is only available for the standalone version. The WordPress version will receive the automatic updates functionality soon.

userTrack 3.1.1 (9 July 2020)

This update doesn't include any new big feature, but it fixes multiple UX issues, caching issues, tracking issues and adds some security and performance improvements.
Changes
New:
  • Average session length chart. The previous "pages per session" bar chart has been hidden as it was hard to read.
Important changes:
  • Tracker.js was updated to fix the session length issue, you will have to change on setting to regenerate the ust.min.js minified tracking code.
Improvements:
  • Small UI/UX improvements for:
    • Sidebar UI
    • Domains list UI
    • A/B tests list UI
    • Tracking code modal
  • A toggle has been added in the tracking code modal so you can choose to include or not the extra A/B tracking scripts.
  • A warning is now shown saying that you will be logged out when you change your own user information
  • Disabled caching of userTrack's index.html to make it easier to update to new versions
  • Added a cache breaker query string ?v=3.1.0 to the included tracker script, to force clients to get the latest version.
  • Improved tracking performance: reduced the initial number of requests done for each page visited from 3 to 2.
Security:
  • A password must now be chosen at installation time for the admin user instead of using a default password. Note that there should always be a user named "admin".
Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug where session length would be really long if a user comes back to the site. If you saw a session length of "20hours" it could have meant that the user left the site and then came back 20 hours later.
  • You are now properly logged out after changing your password
  • Page now correctly starts scrolled at the top when navigating to a different page in the dashboard
  • Fixed errors flashing before being redirected to the login screen, if accessing the dashboard while not logged in.
WordPress version:
  • userTrack will no longer be displayed in an iframe inside WordPress, but the dashboard will open in a new tab. This way there is a lot more space for the graphs/stats and it also fixes the issue with the iframe sizes not filling entire window.

userTrack 3.1.0 (22 June 2020)

This update introduces A/B tests, dark mode, fixes some issues with record playback and adds several UI improvements.
Changes
New:
  • A/B tests: you can now change text or inline styles on your page using just the userTrack interface. Users who see a specific version are automatically tagged with that A/B test variant so you can segment and view data for those users only.
  • Dark mode: you can now switch between the dark and light themes of the userTrack UI.
Important changes:
  • The tracker inclusion code was updated. There is some extra inline JavaScript before including the tracker file, in order to be able to track page load speed and make sure tags will be correctly saved, even if you call UST.addTag() before the script loads.
  • The A/B test file can also be optionally included in order to enable A/B testing.
Improvements:
  • You can now dismiss the info/error mesages shown in the dashboard. Their position was also moved to bottom center (was bottom left).
  • You can now click the referrer URL either in the visitors list or the top referrers list and it will be added as a filter to the current active segment.
  • You can now filter the referrer based on an exact URL (before you could only filter by domain name).
  • Some alignment improvements for the visitors table.
  • A small dot indicator is now shown on the first active segment if multiple segments are active.
  • To help with installation troubleshooting, a server/troubleshoot.php file was added which, when accessed, checks some common userTrack installation errors and displays them.
  • You can no longer add invalid domain names to tracked domains. This fixes the problem with the navigation when a a domain name was added that included a subdirectory path.
  • Added info text with examples showcasing the wildcard feature for the pages filter input.
  • Autocomplete dropdown options are now automatically shown, without having to type a letter first.
  • Increased default users limit from 1k to 100k.
Bug fixes:
  • Fixed an issue with event listeners callbacks not being called sometimes, which stopped some specific actions or tags from being recorded.
  • Fixed a bug which stopped element hovering from working during playback. Now the elements hover should again be triggered when the cursor position is above an element.
  • Fixed some events not beig replayed below the fold (if the page was scrolled).
  • Fix a bug where removing all ignoredIP or all ignoreGET values from the settings would break the settings editor from working.

userTrack 3.0.2 (4 May 2020)

This update adds back skip pauses during playback, live visitors playback and adds a new pages visited filter to segments.
Changes
How to update (v3.0.1 -> v3.0.2)
New:
  • Live playback. When watching the playback of a visitor that is still on your site, new data will be automatically loaded and playback will only stop if 10 seconds pass without any user activity.
  • Skip pauses in playback . The option to skip inactivity while watching a recording has been reimplemented.
  • Page filters for segments. You can now add one or more pages to filter by in segments. The pages can have a starting/ending wildcard. For example, adding *blog* will only show users who visited a page whos URL contains the blog keyword. The same wildcard syntax works when filtering data in the Visitors table.
Bug fixes:
  • A default date range (14 days) is now always enabled for segments. Without having a range selected, the comparison data from segments would not be aligned. You can no longer view data without a date range specified.
  • Fixed pagination of visitors list when using segments (total number of pages was wrong).
  • Fixed empty/incomplete visitor pages being shown in visitors list when the pages filter is used. The filter is now done in MySQL, but the page path has to be exact.
WordPress specific fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where sometimes the userTrack tables would not be deleted when the userTrack plugin is uninstalled.
  • Fixed a possible conflict with other plugins, if they someone included the MaxMind GeoIP DB automatically.
  • Fixed an issue where saving settings would add magic slashes to the tracker.js file and break it.
About updating:
Unfortunately there is no auto-updating functionality yet. To update the script you must replace the old userTrack files with the new ones. Sometimes, if there's a database change, install.php must to be ran again for the new tables to be created.
Note that dbconfig.php and tracker.js contain your database connection information and tracking settings. You should keep those files without replacing them (unless they were actually updated) in order to keep those credentials.
Update steps:
  1. 1.
    Replace all client files (JS, CSS, images, etc.) with the new ones.
  2. 2.
    The following server files were created or changed and have to be copied: (you can also just replace the entire server folder, the important server files to keep are dbconfig.php, tracker.js and ust.min.js)
version-3/server/helpers/getClients.php
version-3/server/helpers/getCountryFromIP.php
version-3/server/helpers/getDomains.php
version-3/server/helpers/getRecordList.php
version-3/server/helpers/saveSettings.php
version-3/server/helpers/segments/withSegment.php
3. This update does not include any database changes, so there is no need to run install.php again.

userTrack 3.0.1 (10 April 2020)

This update includes a new segments feature and fixes some installation and UX issues.
Changes
New:
  • Segments. You can now group multiple filters into segments. The graphs will show all segments at once and the visitors list, heatmaps and list statistics (top pages/top referrers) will show the data for the first active segment.
userTrack v3.0.1 analytics segments
  • Country filter. A new users filter has been added in order to select only users coming from a specific country.
Improvements:
  • When adding a new domain name, the protocol (http) is automatically removed from the URL. Previously, adding a domain name with http in front would fail to show the data for that domain and also break the interface.
  • A new UI modal system was implemented, so most prompts in the interface now use the MaterialUI design instead of the native, thread-blocking, prompt.
  • The notification system that was showing error/success messages was replaced with notistack.
  • Filters inputs now have an autocomplete feature (eg. when you add a new tag, you can suggestion based on the existing tags in the database for the current domain).
  • Some performance improvements, especially when changing filters/segments. Only the graphs for the segments that were changed are now reloaded.
Bug fixes:
  • Fixed: Pagination in visitors list - visitors list page would be wrong or the interface would crash when changing filters/segments while on a page other than first.
Security:
  • The current database password is no longer shown during the initial database setup, to avoid a possible attack before the script is installed.

🎉userTrack 3.0.0 (beta) (18 March 2020)

This is a complete rewrite of userTrack's interface. It also includes new and improved features, but the best part is that now it's a lot easier to add new functionalities to userTrack.
Summary:
  • Front-end is now written in TypeScript.
  • The interface is based on ReactJS Material-UI.
  • i18n localization - the entire UI can now easily be translated with translation files.
  • There's a new Stats page showing different graphs about visitors.
  • Ability to have Filters for all graphs and heatmaps.
  • Improved Security
Hot fixes:
  • 19 March 2020
    • Updated Minifier.php to fix PHP 7.3 compatibility issue.
    • Fix server sub-folder permissions. This was caused by a gulp-zip bug.
    • Add missing .htaccess files.
New:
  • Localization using react-i18next
  • Performance improvements:
    • User visit start and end time are now stored in the ust_clients folder. This means that now the visit duration can be easily computed as a difference, between it was computed by summing the duration of each page visited.
  • Graphs:
    • Pages per session (bar chart)
    • Bounce rate (time series chart)
    • Top pages (list of 10 most viewed pages)
    • Top countries (list of 10 most common visitor countries, based on IP geolocation)
    • Top referrers (list of 10 most common traffic sources, choice of domain or full URL counting)
  • Filters:
    • A new header bar with filters was added in UI.
    • Those filters are applied to all data shown (graphs, list of visitors, heatmaps).
    • Currently you can filter based on Tags, Referrer and Date range.
    • More filters will be implemented soon.
  • React-router is used, so you can now refresh the dashboard and remain on the same page.
  • Domain changing can now be done from any page in the interface. This allows for easily viewing a specific type of data for each of the tracked domains.
  • Iframe auto-scaling: The iframe scale slider was removed. Its only purpose was to allow for manually scaling of the iframe so when viewing heatmap for a resolution larger than our monitor's it would still fit within our screen size. Now the iframe is always scaled to fit within our browser window. The scaling is now also applied when playing back recordings (previously recordings didn't have any type of scaling).
Security:
  • Changed password encryption from md5 to sha256.
  • All passwords are now salted using a cryptographically secure randomly generated salt.
  • Fixed one case where stats about live clients could be publicly read.
  • It is recommended to update to version 3 as soon as possible.
  • Big thanks to Patrick Nappa for discovering and describing possible security issues and for recommending fixes for them.
Improved:
  • Scroll heatmap is still based on mouse activity, but it now shows activity thresholds. We can now see, for example, that 80% of activity was above this line.
  • During session playback the time that the user spent on each page is also shown next to the pages names in the pages list.
  • After installation the serverPath should be automatically set to the correct value.
Bug fixes:
  • Count of live visitors was wrong, it was sometimes showing more than it should.
Other changes:
  • Database:
    • Country is now computed and stored directly in database using the Geolite2 database.
    • Browser, IP and token are now stored in 3 different columns instead of a single string.
    • Client token character length has been reduced, resulting in a slight improvement in DB usage.
    • The client visit start date and end date are directly stored in the ust_clients table.
  • All the server PHP files have been moved inside a subfolder named /server.
  • Heatmaps minimap was removed as it was not really useful.
Temporarily removed functionality:
  • Live visitors (will be reimplemented, not high priority).
  • Adding label to IP addresses (will be reimplemented soon).
  • Skipping pauses in recording (will be reimplemented very soon).
  • Seeking to a specific time in session playback (will be implemented, it was somewhat buggy before).