Plausible Analytics @plausible@fosstodon.org

You can now click on your site in the top left of your Plausible dashboard to quickly switch between sites in your account and get easy access to site settings too. Saves you a second (or two). Enjoy!

"How Many People Are on This Site?"

This is a nice and transparent way to link to your public dashboard and inform your audience about stats you collect at the same time.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stats/

New feature! 📢

You can now click on any of your pages to get a breakdown of the traffic for that specific page.

You can also click on any referral source to see the traffic sent to that page by that referrer.

We're putting the finishing touches to something new 👀

The ability to click on any of your pages and get the complete page drilldown...

Whoops! This is what happens following a record breaking week! 👀

No panic. Short terms traffic fluctuations are normal, especially if you hit the top of Hacker News. Difficult to sustain those traffic levels.

Wait for more long-term trends to emerge before making changes.

We've just hit $3,000 MRR with 483 subscribers! 🤯

Here's how it went:

May 14, 2019: First subscriber
April 2, 2020: $415 MRR (in 324 days)
May 27: $1,000 MRR (55 days)
July 6: $2,000 MRR (40 days)
August 7: $3,000 MRR (32 days) 🥳

Thank you all for supporting us ❤️🙏

You can now see the total number of your direct traffic and other dark traffic (visits without a referrer) in the Top Sources report listed as Direct / None.

You can learn more about the referrer header and dark traffic here https://plausible.io/blog/referrer-policy

Another guide on self-hosting Plausible Analytics

https://theorangeone.net/posts/self-hosting-plausible/

We now have more than 2,000 stars on GitHub 🤩

Thanks to all of you for your support! 🥰

Record number of trial signups too with 617. Previous record was 515 trials in May. Google is the top source of signups.

If our "trial to paid" conversion rate of 33.5% continues, there may be hundreds more sites removing Google Analytics this month.

https://plausible.io/plausible.io?period=6mo&goal=Signup

Almost 50% of traffic comes from three countries: USA, UK and Germany.

62% of visitors are on laptop and desktop devices, 50% use Chrome browser (29% use Firefox) and 30% use macOS (21% use Windows).

Hacker News is the top referral source of traffic while search engines continue delivering visitors that stay the longest (more than 3 mins on average).

Google traffic has increased by 55% compared to June.

https://plausible.io/plausible.io/referrers?period=custom&from=2020-07-01&to=2020-07-31

July traffic summary for our startup:

68.7k unique visitors which is a record month and a 151% increase compared to June. 27th July is our record day with 35,665 visitors.

Top post was the "How to pay your rent with your open source project".

See: https://plausible.io/plausible.io?period=custom&from=2020-07-01&to=2020-07-31

New feature is live! 📢

You can now click on any referral source for a referral drill-down. See the traffic sent to you by that referral source and the entry pages too.

Here's our Google search traffic including search terms and entry pages https://plausible.io/plausible.io?period=6mo&source=Google

"Plausible Connector" WordPress plugin by alyx is now available! It gives you a configuration page in your WP dashboard:

Serve the script from a custom domain
Use your self-hosted instance
Exclude admin views
Custom events enabled by default

https://wordpress.org/plugins/plausible-connector/

We've now removed the "Total Visitors" line from the Goal Conversions graph. It used to dwarf the goal line for most sites so now you can easier see the conversion trends.

These are our trial signups over the last 60 days
https://plausible.io/plausible.io?period=60d&goal=Signup

We broke our traffic record yesterday thanks to our post being on the Hacker News front page for several hours. The only way from here is down!

What's the story behind your record traffic day?

If this Hacker News traffic continues for a few more hours, we may break our own record today.

Current best day is April 8th with 25,817 unique visitors.

You can follow our live traffic here https://plausible.io/plausible.io?period=realtime

Your weekly email report is on the way 👀

This is how traffic looks like on a slow week following a successful blog post... 🔻

How's your traffic been like?

Here's a sneak peek on referral drill-down 👀

You'll be able to click on any referral source in the "Top Referrers" to drill-down and view the stats for that referral.

Should be with you at some point next week if all goes well 🤞