Beautifully designed and minimalist analytics plugin

Hey @danielrunvegan,

Thank you for the lovely review, much appreciated! Hopefully Koko Analytics can be sufficient for you to replace GA altogether one day.

Hey @dvankooten,

I have been running Koko Analytics for 2 weeks now and would like to share a few ideas and suggestions with you. Hope this place is okay for that (I’m not on Github or Twitter).

First, I really think the “stacked bars” view was superior to the new separate bars. I have some minor background with statistics myself and get the purists’ concerns – however, I think that it was a perfect way to display both values in a minimalist, uncluttered and inutitive way. Plus, it wasn’t technically a wrongly used stacked bar chart, as you didn’t add up both values but rather lined up the two bars behind each other. So count me in with the “pro-stackers” ??

As for additional functionality, here is my personal “wishlist” (in no particular order):

• have the option to switch from daily to aggregated weekly and monthly visits/pageviews – this would make identifying long term trends much easier, especially in the yearly view
• indicate mondays (or sundays) under the respective bars in the monthly chart for better orientation (and the 1st of each month in the yearly chart)
• display the day of the week when hovering over the bars (before or after the date)
• option to sort visits/pageviews in an ascending or descending order (or “jump” to first/last page with one click)
• option to filter the chart output: only show visits/pageviews for specific pages or referrers (or even categories)
• include homepage and category pages in pages list
• show new visits/pageviews in the last 60 seconds – this would be a nice substitute for the real-time traffic view in GA and could be shown on the left of the “total visitors” display at the top.

Last but not least, the domain aggregation in the referrer list could probably be improved. For instance, I get the following variations shown separately:

• google.de | google.de/url | google.de/search
• bing.com | bing.com/search
• facebook.com | l.facebook.com | m.facebook.com
• pinterest.com | pinterest.com/pin/xxx (the xxx standing for an individual pin url)

Personally, I would find it more useful to have those aggregated to the respective top domain.

That’s it for now. Thanks again for this great plugin (and let me know if there’s a better way to send you feedback)!

Hey @danielrunvegan,

Wow. I have to thank you again. This is a beautiful list of suggestions and I’ve copied a lot of them over to the GitHub issue list, either to implement them straight away or to allow others to vote on them and gauge interest.

Question, as I’m not familiar with Pinterest: are pinters.com/pin URL’s private (to someone else) and does clicking them take you to the homepage anyway?

@dvankooten I’m happy to hear that you liked my suggestions and put them up for a vote! I have joined GitHub myself now and will follow the discussion there (as soon as I figure out how everything works).

As for your question: I don’t know exactly what you mean by the URLs being “private” … they refer to individual pins that were made by someone who has a pinterest account and can be seen by anyone (even without being logged in). Here is an example:

The link from the pinned image takes you to a single post on our website.

Right now, I can see hundreds of those in the referrer list. In GA, all pinterest referrals are grouped as either pinterest.com or pinterest.de.

Hope that helps!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by Daniel Roth.

@danielrunvegan Does that mean you want to have all referrers aggregated on the domain level, or just some? Personally I really like being able to see the exact URL that sent me the traffic, so for most sites I do want the full URL.

Let me elaborate by going through your examples:

– google.de | google.de/url | google.de/search => Simple store as google.de
– bing.com | bing.com/search => Simple store as bing.com
– facebook.com | l.facebook.com | m.facebook.com => Simple store as facebook.com

Now for Pinterest I don’t think we want to just completely remove the full URL and store it as “pinterest.com” but rather we want a way in the Koko Analytics dashboard to view the total traffic coming from pinterest.com combined with an option to “zoom in” and see it split up by URL (or pins). Right?

That should clear-up the referrers table a bit while still providing a way to see the full URL’s that actually generated the traffic. Let me know please.

@dvankooten the option you described would be super-awesome of course. I guess I didn’t dare to ask for something like that ?? Right now I’m just lacking the option to gauge the percentage of visitors from pinterest as it is broken down into all those single urls.

And yes to the first three examples. That’s the way I would like to see it!