A few remarks about Version 1.3.0

  • Resolved guenni

    (@guenni)


    1 year ago

    Thanks for updating your plugin to v 1.3.0. I have some minor remarks about the changes made by the new design.

    1. Who decided to change the pleasant blue colors of the bars in the old version to red? Are you aware, that red is an “alert color” that stands for “danger” in industry? I’m shocked, every time I see the red bar graph.
    2. For me, the old style, simply showing the blue bar graph without anything else was perfect. If somebody need more details, he can select the provided hyperlink to see the details page. So the new layout, also showing the most viewed pages in the last 14 days is irritating (my dashboard shows a lot of other data, and I like to have a minimized view of Koko analytics as it was in the old design) and also senseless in my case (because: a) the two first entries belongs to the start page of the blog and an old entry, so the most viewed articles won’t change a lot – and b) I don’t like to see this information, because I got that data in my article list from another plugin). Overall the new design with additional “most viewed articles” seems to me more like a “navel show” for some bloggers. For me I like to get an overview of the daily visitors in the bar graph, like it was in the old design – if I need the details, I can select the hyperlink provided in the dashboard). Keep the main view of your plugin for the WP dashboard compact and simple (as it was before).

      Sorry, that I don’t be enthusiastic about the new design.

      Propopsal: If you feel the design is mandatory, please let people select between red or blue bars in the settings, and whether they like to see a pure bar graph or enriched with the the most viewed articles together in the dashbord.
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  • Plugin Author Danny van Kooten

    (@dvankooten)

    Hello @guenni,

    Thank you for your feedback!

    1. The design is certainly not mandatory. But in previous versions of the plugin, we didn’t actually have just a “blue version”. We had an adjustable color scheme that adjusted based on the color of your selected color scheme in WordPress admin.

    The flipside of this was that it added quite a bit of complexity, for example it meant we had to programmatically calculate various shades of the same color.

    In version 1.3 we optimized performance of the analytics dashboard (it’s 95% lighter and over 65% faster to a meaningful render) so this feature was replaced with a simpler static color scheme. We’re however keen on diving into this again to either make it adjustable or provide a few sensible defaults to choose from.

    2. I hear you. I really struggled with this, as some of our users have been asking us for more info on the dashboard. We’re trying to strike a nice balance between showing just enough yet not replicating the entire dashboard. We’ll gather some more feedback on what our users think and then either change the default, make it adjustable or at least make certain things hideable.

    Danny

    Plugin Author Danny van Kooten

    (@dvankooten)

    Just a quick update that we have just released version 1.3.1 of Koko Analytics, in which we have “reversed” to the blue colors that most people were apparently using.

    In case you (or someone reading this) wants different colors for the chart, please check out this sample plugin on how to change the Koko Analytics chart colors.

    flaneuring

    (@flaneuring)

    “Less, but better.”

    –Dieter Rams

    • This reply was modified 1 year ago by flaneuring.
    Thread Starter guenni

    (@guenni)

    Thanks for your changes – I can live now with Version 1.3.2

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