Build 9042 (2024-10-03) Added: A new check for too many external links to Site Tuning. Added: Detection and identification of DuckDuckGo and OpenAI for Spiders and Bots reporting. Added: N/A can now be added as an exclusion filter for various Reports. Added: The login page can now be customized with background images, title, and heading text. Changed: Increased the number of calls before the "Too Many Links" warning appears in Site Tuning. Fixed: Links to external websites in a Sitemap are being automatically scanned with Site Tuning. Fixed: The SmarterStats logo appeared incorrectly on the Licenses page. Efficiency: Styles are now precompiled for significantly faster rendering on the client. Security: Updated third-party dependencies for security and stability. Build 8999 (2024-08-21) Added: Site Tuning will now show which images are missing ALT tags. Changed: Having a URL in the sitemap will nullify any "missing canonical" warnings for that URL in Site Tuning. Changed: Licensing page is now consistent with other SmarterTools products. Fixed: Issue where the diagnostics page shows an activation ping failure. Efficiency: Improved Site Tuning so it now starts up faster. Efficiency: Site Tuning now initiates a scan of a site's sitemap to find all possible identifiable links, saving spidering time. Build 8761 (2024-01-03) Fixed: Modifying the Log Analysis path for an active site removes the site admin's configured email address. Fixed: The reports headers are not being properly translated. Build 8521 (2023-05-03) Added: Email notifications are now sent to the admin user when an exception is encountered during log import for a site. Added: Windows 11 to list of OS versions. Fixed: API calls get progressively slower as you add more and more sites. Fixed: Configuring multiple recipients on Scheduled Email Reports only sends to the first recipient. Fixed: Reports are showing different hit count for "Page Time Taken" depending on what report you are on. Fixed: SmarterStats SMTP configuration will not save without using authentication. Fixed: Unable to move sites from one server to another. Build 8388 (2022-12-21) Changed: Various text changes to increase consistency. Fixed: "AvailableQueriesWithInputs" API call returns exception. Fixed: Data Mining doesn't return data if there is a slash at the end of the filename. Fixed: SiteList.dat file is getting truncated. Fixed: UpdateUser2 and AddUser2 APIs allow user to enter the email address input property string in an invalid format. Fixed: When you save an SMTP account for a server to send from, it doesn't require an email address; sending without an email fails. Build 8195 (2022-06-09) Added: A backup file for the SiteList.dat file for redundancy. Fixed: Remote server build/version number are not updating properly after the service update. Fixed: SmarterStats free edition will allow you to walk through adding a second site. Security: Fixed potential vulnerability. It is recommended to update to this version or higher. Build 8011 (2021-12-07) Added: A new external login provider is now available as an authentication method. Added: A site-level setting for Authentication Method. Added: New AddSite APIs, and old APIs have been deprecated, to accommodate external login provider. Added: New UpdateSite API, and old API was deprecated, to accommodate external login provider. Added: Site Defaults and Propagation areas now include new Authentication Method setting. Changed: AddUser2 API will ignore any password if the site is set to use external login provider authentication. Changed: Forgot Password functionality altered to take into account external provider authentication. Changed: Forgot Password process look and feel was adjusted to match the rest of the interface. Changed: Password related fields and options are now hidden if the site is set to external login provider authentication. Changed: Site administrators can no longer create or delete users if the site is set to external login provider authentication. Changed: System administrator credentials now use a one-way hashing method. Changed: The GetSite APIs were altered to accommodate external login provider authentication. Changed: The GetUser APIs were altered to accommodate external login provider authentication. Changed: The svcGlobalUpdate API now allows propagation of the new external login provider authentication method. Changed: UpdateUser2 API will ignore any password if the site is set to use external login provider authentication. Changed: Users are no longer allowed to change their own password when their site uses the external login provider. Fixed: Site tuning scan fails on some Wordpress sites. Build 7978 (2021-11-04) Added: The ability to manually sort the order of report items when creating or editing a custom report. Changed: Minor styling changes on dark theme to make it easier for people with visual impairments to read text. Changed: Site tuning will now consider sites with and without a "www" in their hostnames as the same site. (E.g., example.com and www.example.com.) Removed: SmarterStats no longer has a dependency on WMI. Fixed: An issue capturing site tuning data for sites hosted with Mura CMS. Fixed: Grids sometimes showed "Loading..." entries after scrolling. Fixed: In Scheduled Email Reports, clicking on the Language header to sort by language resulted in a server error. Fixed: New user window on Login page has a smaller font size than everything else. Fixed: On the Forgot Login page, the tab order navigated to the CAPTCHA in the wrong order. Fixed: On the Forgot Login page, the validation for fields have a very dark background color if user was last logged into the interface with dark theme. Fixed: Site Tuning was not properly finding some pages when the site root had a page in it rather than just the host name. Fixed: SmarterStats diagnostics page now resolves yahoo.com successfully. Fixed: The text for @InvalidURL was not properly translated. Fixed: When editing a site that has Site Tuning implemented, the header showed a rogue comma. Fixed: When log analysis is disabled for a site, "View Site Stats" wasn't working for system administrators. Build 7845 (2021-06-24) Fixed: On some reports, like Entry Files and Entry Pages, items that should be excluded via the applied Filter Set were still appearing in the report table. Build 7789 (2021-04-29) Fixed: Byte order marks embedded within lines of log files will no longer skew results. Fixed: Subsequent imports or reprocessing would sometimes convert Bot/Spider hits to normal traffic. Build 7775 (2021-04-15) Fixed: Data mining file browser shows only "/" and is unable to select any other files. Fixed: Increasing a report's number of Rows only works the first time. Build 7747 (2021-03-18) Added: Content Security Policy (CSP) settings. Added: Dark mode can now be toggled easily at the top of the interface. Changed: Checkboxes and dropdowns now look good in safari and are styled consistently. Changed: In a site's context menu, Delete was moved to be in a more appropriate location. Efficiency: Unused language strings were removed from the application to simplify translation efforts. Build 7656 (2020-12-17) Changed: Line thickness was increased in charts to make the lines and data more legible across themes. Changed: Updated .zip and .gz compression modules to increase performance and to protect against a firewall stripping metadata from compressed files. Changed: Updated third-party dependencies including jQuery and Bootstrap. Fixed: Activate modal was not showing any warnings or validation errors when activation fails. Fixed: If the Cities reports do not contain any data to show, they will now properly show the "This report returned no results" message. Fixed: If the remote service is unreachable, the site settings page will now allow changes to all fields except for Site Tuning settings. Fixed: License Limits Exceeded notice was showing up when the number of sites was equal to the license limit but not exceeding it. Fixed: Licensing page was not showing data appropriately for Free edition. Fixed: Site and Server Default Propagation modal was not correctly showing the results. Fixed: The message "The server that handles the site could not be reached" shows on the first login attempt for some users. Build 7600 (2020-10-22) IMPORTANT: To prevent a permissions error, the "Force all traffic over HTTPS" setting is now saved in the settings file instead of web.config. Those who previously had this setting enabled will need to re-apply it. Added: Improved logging for email reports. Added: New charting engine that doesn't rely on Google as an external dependency. Fixed: A minor display bug with the buttons at the top of the interface. Fixed: Bandwidth Out reports were not always showing all items properly. Fixed: Context menu on Scheduled Email Reports page was showing the wrong text for Send Now. Fixed: Context menu was missing from Sites page. Fixed: Custom report items that reference reports that do not allow filter sets to be applied will no longer show the option in the interface. Fixed: Daily Activity data mining report was not allowing you to group dates by week, month, etc. Fixed: Delete button on the Sites page doesn't show the proper dialog. Fixed: Monthly email reports were not sending properly. Fixed: Path reports were not properly splitting requests into separate lines, and were incorrectly showing the hover menu on items. Fixed: Selecting a different chart type or number of rows was not unchecking the old value. Fixed: Setting an FTP password with special characters in site configuration would sometimes cause the page to refuse to save. Fixed: Sites page was missing a title in the browser tab. Fixed: Some Server Health reports were not sorting the chart properly. Fixed: Spiders report should default to sorting by hits, not page views. Fixed: Switching between reports no longer causes top bar elements to shift. Fixed: The font used for right-click context menus on grids and the hover menu on reports is too small. Fixed: The wrong message was showing if a Custom Report had no data to display. Build 7586 (2020-10-08) Added: Spider reports will now show selected spider in the report titles. Fixed: In Site Tuning, scanning a long URL shrinks labels and doesn't wrap properly. Fixed: Labels were showing incorrectly on some Spider reports. Fixed: Log export settings were showing up when they should not. Fixed: Minor display issues resolved on export logs page. Fixed: Some styles were not consistent across the interface. Fixed: Spider report option dropdown not showing selection properly. Efficiency: Optimized resource usage for images and fonts in the web application. Build 7579 (2020-10-01) Added: Dark Mode as an available option for the overall theme of SmarterStats. Added: If a site's import didn't finish during its time slot, the status line on the site details page will show that it is not completed yet. Added: IP Addresses Data Mining report now also shows hits. Added: License screen shows Maintenance and Support expiration. Added: Notifications and warnings about licensing now appear within the interface for administrators. Added: Page Details now shows the page being inspected. Added: Site Tuning details can now be exported as a CSV file. Added: Site Tuning results now have a summary by page. Added: When editing a site, the options that appear in the Actions dropdown mirror those available when viewing all sites. Changed: "Missing Sitemap Page" in Site Tuning has been renamed to "Missing Page in Sitemap". Changed: Alert style has been updated. Changed: Changing a site's URL will now update the starting URL for Site Tuning. Changed: Custom Reports area has been redesigned to be easier to understand. Changed: Data Mining now shows all individual reports on the left, with specific options on the right. Changed: Impersonate user is now easier to find for the System Administrator. Changed: Initial setup wizard was simplified for new users. Changed: Left tree has been simplified. Changed: Licensing page simplified. Changed: Modals have been altered to show the primary action button (usually OK) on the right side, with Cancel or Close to the left of it. Changed: Most dialogs will not pop up new windows or tabs. Changed: Printing reports no longer requires print friendly popup. Changed: Propagation options are now under default settings pages. Changed: Rank was removed from the Return Visits Report because it was confusing, and by default it will sort by Return Visits. Changed: Rank was removed from the Views per Visit Report because it was confusing. Changed: Scheduled Email Reports has been moved into the custom reports area. Changed: Service to Web Interface communication layer updated to gRPC. Changed: Site Tuning summary has a more consistent look. Changed: Spider selection modal has been simplified. Changed: Theme is now only set at the system level and user level. User theme is only applied for that user and not when impersonating. Changed: Third party dependencies have been updated for stability and performance. Changed: Updated the interface to make it consistent with the new SmarterTools design modal. Removed: SEO functionality that uses web scraping has been removed from SmarterStats, due to changes by Google and others that prevent this feature from running properly. Fixed: Adding, editing, and deleting a Custom Report does not update the interface until after a refresh. Fixed: Changing a general setting for a site when impersonated re-logs in as the System Administrator. Fixed: Clicking on a Site Tuning result shows all results, but should show a modal for just the result clicked on. Fixed: Consistency for Site Tuning "pages processed" indicators. Fixed: Disabled input fields are now visibly different than normal input fields. Fixed: Grids will no longer show the last entry as being cut off when the page extends beyond the height of the monitor. Fixed: In Google Chrome, the navigation pane fails to change/refresh when navigating from Site Activity to a different menu icon. Fixed: Minor HTML error in self-checkup page. Fixed: Page Details popup should only show page activity when drilled into from a report, and should only show site tuning errors when opened from Site Tuning. Fixed: Report hover menu will now allow the entire cell to be clickable. Fixed: Reprocess dialog was incorrectly showing Site Tuning as a possible folder to reprocess. Fixed: Resolved an issue that could cause reprocessing statistics for a site to not properly take that site's time zone into account. Fixed: Resolved an issue where IPv6 IP addresses in logs could cause exceptions while importing. Fixed: Resolved an issue with Site Tuning detecting incorrect link urls on some types of pages, resulting in "Broken Link" false positives. Fixed: Resolved some consistency issues in grids. Fixed: Scrolling through a large list of Site Tuning results would sometimes scramble the order of items. Fixed: Select boxes were not showing with the correct font. Fixed: Separators on Site Tuning page summary popup aren't consistent. Fixed: Site Tuning will no longer consider urls that only differ in an ending slash to be duplicate pages. (E.g. "/users" and "/users/".) Fixed: Site Tuning will no longer show errors when popping up details about results if log analysis is disabled for a site. Fixed: Sites grid status column now shows proper status when sites are paused or disabled. Fixed: Some grids were cutting off bottom item. Fixed: Some zip files could not be read on FIPS compliant systems. Fixed: System level reports were not properly showing the "Generating Report" indicator. Fixed: The Page Column grid in Site Tuning was too wide. Fixed: Time control on Server Defaults resized improperly. Fixed: User sessions were getting lost on some systems, requiring frequent logins. Fixed: When a session times out, and Remember Me is checked, only inner frame is being replaced. Fixed: When Page Details was popped up from Site Tuning, sometimes one page's results would show up in another page's popup. Security: Resolved a security issue related to service communication. Build 7515 (2020-07-29) Changed: View Logs results panel now displays the text in an easier to read way. Removed: Redundant message at the top of admin-level site summary reports. Fixed: Checkup and login pages now show the proper SmarterStats build and .net framework version. Fixed: Custom report editor will now properly set selected chart values. Fixed: Importing was not correctly interpreting IPv6 IPs. Fixed: Searching multiple times in Log Viewer in the web interface could sometimes fail. Fixed: Server summary reports show the server ID instead of the name. Fixed: Site Tuning would sometimes not find links in some sites. Fixed: User agent parser was not completely thread safe in some circumstances. Fixed: View logs page was missing one of the log types. Fixed: Web interface logs cannot be searched or downloaded. Efficiency: Improved memory and CPU efficiency when importing log files and running reports. Build 7422 (2020-04-27) Added: SmarterStats translation files are now included with the SmarterStats program files by default. Changed: Updated the Brasilia timezone to accommodate for the removal of DST. Fixed: Authenticated Users report returns no results. Fixed: Certain query rules can cause the raw logs for views and visits to return inaccurate results. Fixed: The Demographic reports for Countries, Regions and Cities return no results. Security: This build resolves a security vulnerability. It is recommended to update to this version or higher. Build 7219 (2019-10-07) Changed: Minor styling update. Changed: Updated the GeoIP files. Changed: Updated the list of bots SmarterStats is looking for to account for any new Search Engine spiders. Changed: Updated User Agent file to account for the new Chromium Edge and Brave browsers. Fixed: An error for "Cannot find viable address" happening for some email reports. Fixed: API for executing "/DataMining/QueryItems" appears to need the File and FilterSet parameter to execute properly, but fails if they are provided. Fixed: Email reports are not including the exclude filters. Fixed: Filter set causing reports to be empty even when there are things for the filter. Fixed: Filter sets are not being applied. Fixed: Initially adding a site can cause an error when loading the site configuration. Fixed: Issue that could cause Email Reports to not send. Fixed: Issue that could cause IP Address report to be blank. Fixed: Referrer By Site report can be missing some sites. Fixed: Scheduled Email reports are not sending to the CC address. Fixed: Site preview pane shows SEO Disabled while the site config shows SEO Enabled. Fixed: Site tuning can lose all information under certain circumstances. Build 6922 (2018-12-15) Added: SMTP option to allow TLS. Removed: SEO "Positioning" reports. Build 6911 (2018-12-03) Added: Support for FTPS with TLS 1.2. Added: When doing FTP retrievals, skip sites with logs that are currently being processed. Changed: Update .Net to 4.7.2. Removed: SEO search engine scraping. Fixed: Auto-generated email reports could show wrong start and end dates. Fixed: Impersonate user always uses site admin even if other user is selected. Fixed: Initial scheduled reports could cause the report to break and send empty data depending on time zone. Fixed: Page view counts vary between reports. Fixed: Some buttons in the reports area don't work when SmarterStats is installed on a system without an internet connection. Fixed: Some FTP events are not logged in the correct order. Fixed: User Agent strings containing "Darwin" are flagged as being from a Windows PC. Fixed: When site and server are in different timezones, reports could show the wrong number of days. Efficiency: Decreased time required to generate data mining report by about 30%. Version 11.3.6480 (2017-09-28) IMPORTANT: This build resolves a security vulnerability. It is recommended to update to this version or higher. Fixed: Logs not saving to correct location. Fixed: Resolved an issue that caused scheduled email reports to sometimes fail to send. Fixed: When a directory does not exist on an FTP server, SmarterStats will now properly close the connection. Version 11.3.6347 (2017-05-18) Added: Support for RFC 7239 for forwarded IP Addresses. Changed: New installations will now default Site Tuning and SEO site settings to off. Changed: Site Tuning will no longer scan external links at google.com (and international variants) and bing.com, to avoid the server getting rate limited. Fixed: Connections to SFTP servers using password only authentication (no public key) now work properly. Fixed: If a custom report contains a geographic report without a chart, it can no longer show an error if emailed. Fixed: Test button now works when adding a log source of SFTP or FTPS. Fixed: When enabling SSL within the SMTP settings, port 587 is used by default for SSL connections. Fixed: Wizard now shows errors and success correctly. Version 11.2.6130 (2016-10-13) Fixed: ActivateLicenseKey Web Service call now works as expected. Fixed: An issue that caused daily reporting to error. Fixed: Filter sets are applied to Authenticated Users. Fixed: FTP Logs now show in the web interface as expected. Version 11.1.6004 (2016-06-09) Added: Log Processing Rules now includes an option to exclude a Request URI. Changed: Administrators are now notified if a site delete is unsuccessful. Fixed: An issue that prevented SmarterStats from loading properly in rare cases. Fixed: An issue that prevented UNC paths from being used for SmarterLogs storage locations. Fixed: An issue where adding duplicate items was throwing an exception. Fixed: An issue where Server Health Reports were not properly loading. Fixed: Result Codes reports now display the correct report names. Version 11.0.5932 (2016-03-29) IMPORTANT: SmarterStats 11 now requires Microsoft .NET 4.5. This prevents SmarterStats from running on Windows Server 2003. Added: A custom link can be added to the Help menu in order to provider users additional contact information, support resources, hosting provider details, etc. Added: A warning now displays when attempting to save an incorrect Query Variable. Added: Date ranges now show on PDF reports. Added: Export URL is now dynamic for sites. Added: Improved logging for FTP. Added: Improved logging for SMTP actions. Added: Improved logging for Web interface. Added: Sites using FTP can now include zipped and archived folders. Added: Support for FTPs. Added: Support for load-balanced headers in logs. Added: Support for sFTP. Changed: “Dynamic Pages” are now referenced as “Query Variables”. Changed: “Import Filters” are now referenced as “Log Importing Rules”. Changed: FTP Component within SmarterStats has been replaced with new component from EnterpriseDT. Changed: Site Tuning and SEO are no longer enabled for new sites by default. Changed: Visitor Trend Report now properly shows correct headers in chart. Fixed: Date pickers now properly show the correct dates for browsers set to English-South Africa. Fixed: Scheduled reports now properly show the date ranges that do not include the current day in the report. Efficiency: Better handling of XML files regarding reading and writing to the files. Efficiency: Improved logging throughout SmarterStats. Version 10.5.5751 (2015-10-01) Fixed: Custom Reports now properly show maps corresponding to the data provided. Fixed: Datamining now takes into account the Date Start value when browsing for files to datamine. Version 10.4.5703 (2015-08-13) Added: Updated Browser User Agents to include Windows Edge. Added: Updated Operating Systems User Agents to include Windows 10. Added: Updated Spiders and Bots User Agents to include Applebot. Changed: Decreased the frequency in which SEO data is pulled for sites. Fixed: A case where SEO Keyword Suggestions would not properly return. Fixed: Settings in Custom Reports are now applied properly to reports. Version 10.4.5696 (2015-08-06) Changed: SEO and Site Tuning is no longer enabled by default for each site on new installations. Fixed: Activation through automation web services now functions properly. Fixed: SEO Visibility Trend report now loads as expected. Efficiency: Significant performance improvements on sites that have many log files. Version 10.4.5654 (2015-06-25) Fixed: Active Processes page will no longer show Idle sites. Fixed: Active Processes page will now update correctly. Fixed: Active Processes view will now properly show activity on servers. Fixed: Data mining referrer reports will no longer show a blank line for unknown referrers. Fixed: Data mining will no longer fail to return results if a date is entered outside of the data set date range. Fixed: Reports will no longer fail to come up when reports take a significant amount of time to appear. Fixed: Server IP field (s-ip) will now be read properly from log files. Efficiency: Generating charts on larger sites now occurs much faster. Efficiency: Importing is now more efficient when using Import Filters. Efficiency: Significant memory and CPU reduction in service for larger sites. Security: Report handler now does additional user verification checks. Version 10.3.5619 (2015-05-21) Added: Applebot is now detected as a spider. Added: Browser detection for Microsoft Edge. Changed: If AddSite4 web service is called with a log location that does not include a value for LocationGuid, one will be generated. Changed: Web services will now add http:// to the beginning of the Domain URL if it is not passed in correctly. Fixed: In SEO PageRank Trend, Position Trend, and Visibility Trend reports, the "Competitor" drop down is now properly labeled. Fixed: In SEO Position by Keyword and Position Trend reports, the "Site" drop down is now properly labeled. Fixed: Referring Sites and Referring Links reports now show properly even if a site does not have a domain URL configured. Fixed: Referring Sites report will no longer separate different casings of the same item. Fixed: SEO reports will now show properly in custom and scheduled email reports. Version 10.2.5598 (2015-04-30) Added: Google.PT is now in search engine list. Fixed: Editing or adding a page alias directly from a report will now function properly with pages that contain query string items. Fixed: Referring Links report now properly includes query string items. Fixed: Resolved an issue where Server selection in server level reports was not taking effect. Fixed: Search engine reports now have proper default sorting selections and chart options. Version 10.2.5584 (2015-04-16) Added: Google.pt is now available in SEO. Changed: EULA has been updated to accommodate white labeling. Version 10.2.5577 (2015-04-09) Fixed: Printed Server level reports will no longer cut off prematurely. Fixed: Resolved an exception with DNS resolution and unknown IP Addresses. Fixed: Search engine selector now shows properly on the Visibility Trend report. Fixed: SEO report data now shows properly when google.com is not enabled for a site but others are. Fixed: Sorting and grouping now works properly in SEO Visibility Trend report. Fixed: Sorting by Return Visits now functions properly in Server level reports. Fixed: Sorting by Site Name now functions properly in Server level reports. Efficiency: Sites with multiple import filters will now import faster. Version 10.2.5556 (2015-03-19) Fixed: A problem with importing log folders that contain sub-folders with duplicate file names was resolved. Fixed: Admin level trend reports now group properly. Fixed: Demographics reports now properly sort by region and country. Fixed: Directory hits will no longer show duplicate "/" characters. Fixed: Email reports containing SEO report items now function properly. Fixed: Email reports will now function properly for system level reports. Fixed: Empty c-ip entries in logs will no longer cause import exceptions to be logged. Fixed: PDF export will now function properly for system level reports. Fixed: Print preview now delays slightly to allow charts to initialize on browsers that stall it. Fixed: Report timeout increased. Fixed: Resolved an issue with duplicate email reports sending in some time zones. Fixed: Scheduled Email Reports page now properly converts Last Sent to site user's time zone. Fixed: Search engine selection now takes effect on SEO reports. Fixed: Server Traffic Trend report will now function properly when looking at a single day and will properly include the last day in range reports. Efficiency: Performance increase in Site Activity > Files reports. Version 10.1.5529 (2015-02-20) Fixed: Browsing FTP folders now works as expected. Fixed: Charts will now display properly over HTTPS. Fixed: Filter sets ending with a '/' are handled properly. Fixed: Import Filters will no longer cause Visits numbers to be too low in reports when visitors hit an excluded record at the beginning of their session. Fixed: Query web service functions will now function properly if a server with ID of 1 does not exist. Fixed: Server level reports now properly sort. Fixed: Site tuning page will now properly show results immediately after scanning. Fixed: UNC log sources will now work properly with Workgroups. Version 10.0.5420 (2014-11-03) Added: A site count displaying the total number of sites configured is now shown in the management interface. Added: A specific month can be chosen for re-importing logs. Added: A specific month can be chosen for reprocessing. Added: Ability to cancel the reprocessing of logs for a site. Added: Ability to compress original logs after a specified amount of time. Added: Ability to customize interface colors and add custom CSS. Added: Ability to datamine IP addresses. Added: Ability to force all traffic related to the SmarterStats application over HTTPS. Added: Ability to modify the default time that email reports are scheduled to be sent after. Added: Ability to propagate the site setting "Look for logs in .gz and .zip archives". Added: Ability to propagate the site setting “Include logs stored in subfolders”. Added: Brute Force Detection for the Web interface login. Added: Informational message for site tuning errors. Added: IP Addresses report now includes a 'View Details' button which shows DNS resolution and statistics. Added: New API documentation browser. Added: System and site level UNC credentials can now be used instead of modifying the SmarterStats service. Added: View Site Stats option has been added to the Actions menu. Added: Web Service examples for using query.asmx to display data outside of SmarterStats. Changed: All supported Internet Explorer versions are properly detected, regardless of whether compatibility mode is used. Changed: Referrals reports will no longer show if a valid URL is not configured for the site. Removed: "No Referrer" information has been removed from Referrals reports. Removed: Referring URLs report has been removed and its data added to the Referring Links report. Fixed: An issue where a notice of invalid permissions was incorrectly displayed. Fixed: Horizontal scroll bar is no longer needed when entering a URL for Site Tuning. Fixed: Setting for "Include logs stored in subfolders" now properly takes into account site defaults when creating a site. Fixed: Site Tuning now properly accounts for the number of max pages to be crawled. Fixed: Site Tuning now properly works after a service restart. Fixed: SmarterLogs are now labeled correctly when using site propagation. Efficiency: IIS 6.0 Management Compatibility (and all subsets therein) is no longer needed. Efficiency: Updated jquery integration. Efficiency: User Agents report has been updated to include new devices and operating systems. Version 9.3.5409 (2014-10-23) Changed: A static message is now displayed when Site Administrators access the email settings of a site, if the system administrator has already configured SMTP settings. Fixed: An error that would be thrown if a custom report contained reports no longer available in SmarterStats. Fixed: Custom reports keep sort order when generated. Fixed: If no keyword suggestions are available, a notification will now be displayed. Fixed: Licenses should no longer deactivate in certain cases. Fixed: Only one 'Traffic Trend' option will now be listed when adding custom report items. Fixed: SEO reports now display correctly in cases where a different search engine is used exclusively. Version 9.2.5360 (2014-09-04) Fixed: An issue where the folder path did not properly populate for Data Mining queries. Fixed: Email reports now properly include PDF and CSV attachments. Fixed: Filter sets are now properly applied to Custom Reports. Fixed: GZ files will no longer be downloaded from FTP if they don't match the log file mask. Fixed: Server level reports now export to PDF as expected. Fixed: Top Documents and Top Downloads reports no longer show the root directory in reporting. Fixed: Top Pages report now properly reports on pages where extensions are not used or included. Fixed: XML files with MIME type application/xml will now be scanned during site tuning. Version 9.1.5339 (2014-08-14) Fixed: An issue where SEO reports were not correctly displaying data for the date selected. Fixed: Custom reports now properly show the configured chart type. Fixed: Filter sets are now properly applied to Server Utilization and Page Utilization Reports. Fixed: Filter sets are now properly applied to Visitors reports. Fixed: Import from IIS now works as expected for installations with a large number of sites. Fixed: Logs now properly import when a client IP port number is included in the raw logs. Fixed: Query.asmx web service now can accept a Server ID key\value pair to access sites on different servers. Fixed: Server level reports will not provide a 500 level error in rare cases. Fixed: Server level reports will not throw an error if a remote server is unavailable. Fixed: Server level reports will not throw an error if no sites are hosted on a remote server. Fixed: Site Traffic Summary report properly returns bandwidth for each site. Fixed: Site Visitors Summary report now properly displays return visitors. Fixed: Statistics.asmx web service now properly returns data for 'GetVisitorsForSite'. Fixed: Top Pages report now includes root folder views in report totals. Version 9.0.5318 (2014-07-24) Fixed: A null reference exception regarding the UtcToLocal time function used by SEO Processing. Fixed: GetActivityForSite web service now returns data as expected. Fixed: Pop-up windows would shrink and refuse to resize in Firefox version 31.0. Version 8.5.5318 (2014-07-24) Fixed: Popup windows would shrink and refuse to resize in Firefox version 31.0. Version 9.0.5305 (2014-07-14) Added: AddSite4 has been added to the SmarterStats web services. This now accounts for the DomainUrl field when adding a site. Fixed: A Javascript error that occurred when Af.length was null. Fixed: A null reference exception regarding GetSeoProcessingPercent has been resolved. Fixed: IP address resolution now works as expected. Fixed: svcSiteAdmin - GetRequestedSettings now properly returns the max campaigns. Version 9.0.5289 (2014-06-25) Fixed: A JavaScript error that would cause charts to not display on some machines. Fixed: A null reference exception regarding GetSoeProcessingPercent. Version 9.0.5283 (2014-06-19) Fixed: Web interface will no longer fail to switch tabs on Internet Explorer 9. Version 9.0.5280 (2014-06-16) Added: Clicking on a data point in charts now highlights the row you were working on. Added: Discoverable query system that can be easily queried through web services. Added: Email reports can now be sent with CSV or PDF attachments of the report. Added: Failure to load AppConfig.xml will now result in automatic revert to backup file. Added: Friendly error pages. Added: Improved report printing window that prints more closely to how the report looks in the browser. Added: Log paths can now recursively search child folders. Added: Low disk space monitoring will prevent processing of data or downloading of logs when disk space is critical. Added: Many new types of devices are now detected, including Kindle Fire, Google Glass, PS4, and many others. Added: Mobile Devices report. Added: More Google spiders to the user agent detections. Added: New reporting engine with resizable and interactive charts. Added: New web service function: SiteAdmin.asmx/GetSiteByName. Added: Reports can now be exported as PDF. Added: Several new search engines and bots. Changed: 'Unknown' and 'No User Agent (masked)' counts are now combined into one single number on user agent reports. Changed: Chart type options are now selectable without a sub-menu. Changed: Export menu has been redesigned as a dropdown menu rather then a separate popup window. Changed: Filter set definition has been simplified and no longer requires a '!' on inclusion items. Changed: Local processing service now shows up with the computer's machine name instead of localhost. Changed: Logging out of an impersonated site now closes the window rather than ending the entire session. Changed: Logging screens improved for viewing. Changed: Site name is now included on printed reports. Changed: SmarterStats self diagnostic page provides more information. Changed: SmarterStats system-level logs are now automatically deleted after 30 days. Removed: Dual axis option for charts was removed to reduce confusion and misunderstandings of chart data. Removed: ISP and Organization reports removed due to licensing change with data provider. Removed: Option to get keyword suggestions based off of a list of keywords. Removed: Plain Text only reports. Removed: Recent Visitor reports removed. Removed: Severity column from Spiders and Page Utilization reports. Removed: Tab delimited exporting was removed in favor of CSV. Fixed: FTP now pulls in compressed logs when indicated. Fixed: Search Engine Breakdown now properly represents log data. Fixed: Server level log search now functions as expected. Fixed: Site SEO Config file will now load from backup properly if required. Fixed: When FTP is configured, log auto-delete settings will no longer appear. Efficiency: Browser performance optimizations for web interface. Efficiency: Process metrics will now use less memory. Efficiency: Reporting engine now uses lower resources and much lower bandwidth. Efficiency: Several optimizations to code structure, allowing for faster startup and reduced resource usage. Version 8.5.5266 (2014-06-02) Fixed: Resolved a null reference exception in FullSiteUpdate. Fixed: Site SEO Config file will now load from backup properly if required. Version 8.5.5220 (2014-04-17) Added: New web service function: SiteAdmin.asmx/GetSiteByName. Fixed: Get keyword suggestions now works as expected. Fixed: Server level log searching now functions as expected. Fixed: Site Tuning will no longer prompt a warning if a sitemap.xml.gz filetype is used. Version 8.5.5171 (2014-02-27) Fixed: SMTP EHLO commands now include hostname of the SmarterStats server. Efficiency: Web interface performance improvements when servers have many sites. Version 8.5.5136 (2014-01-23) Added: Detection for Internet Explorer 11+. Added: Several new bots and spiders were added. Fixed: Internet Explorer will now properly switch sections in the web interface. Fixed: Login form now works properly in Internet Explorer 11. Fixed: Server level reports will now properly take sort order into account. Version 8.4.5017 (2013-09-26) Added: Internet Explorer 11 support. Version 8.4.5010 (2013-09-19) Fixed: After finishing an FTP download, the site will start processing more quickly. Fixed: After importing FTP downloaded logs, the downloaded files will be properly deleted after they are one day old. Fixed: Compression level server setting will now persist between restarts. Fixed: FTP servers that delay goodbye results slightly will no longer cause stats to stall. Fixed: FTP will now honor the file mask properly. Fixed: Log search results box in View Logs page now properly resizes horizontally and does not change formatting of log file. Fixed: Site that is currently processing stats after an FTP download will no longer show "Waiting to import until FTP finishes the download" Fixed: SmarterStats is now more tolerant of corrupt log files. Version 8.3.4975 (2013-08-15) Changed: The interval for SEO calls has been increased from 20 seconds to 2 minutes. Fixed: An active FTP session will no longer significantly slow down service stops. Fixed: Connecting to an older Microsoft FTP server that uses 2 digit years will no longer cause log files to be downloaded repeatedly. Fixed: Errors while creating or editing a server will now display properly. Fixed: Internal web server now properly persists its startup mode for future reinstalls of the product. Fixed: Removed a cause of TMP files remaining after an FTP session ends. Fixed: SEO Reports now show data for keywords with a period. Version 8.2.4931 (2013-07-02) Changed: The interval for SEO calls has been increased to prevent blocking. Fixed: Failure messages when creating or editing a server will now appear correctly. Fixed: SEO Reports now show data for keywords with a period. Version 8.2.4898 (2013-05-30) Added: New custom report date range options have been added for last 90 days and last 365 days. Fixed: Default sorting option will now be properly selected when adding/editing a custom report item. Fixed: Help will no longer revert back to old version. Fixed: Import filters, data mining, and page aliases will now function properly when page names are pasted directly from reports. Fixed: Log rows with a status code of 206 are now properly processed as new hits or continuations. Fixed: Logs being accessed by IIS at the time of import will no longer fail to import. Fixed: SmarterStats service will no longer fail to start after OS reboot. Version 7.7.4898 (2013-05-30) Fixed: SmarterStats service will no longer fail to start after OS reboot. Version 8.1.4870 (2013-05-02) Added: Web service documentation now allows you to expand or contract all items. Fixed: An issue where logs weren't being processed because of a log being 0 kb in size. Fixed: Corrupt SiteConfig.xml files will no longer cause all processing to stop. SmarterStats will attempt to load data from backup files and safely fail if unsuccessful. Fixed: Daily email reports now send correctly for sites with delayed log processing. Fixed: Scheduled email reports now work correctly when pushing "Send Now." Fixed: Tree view items are now highlight correctly for the currently selected item. Version 8.0.4842 (2013-04-04) Changed: Long file names uploaded in the web interface are now truncated instead of wrapping. Changed: Viewing the Web interface in compatibility mode is now prevented when using Internet Explorer. Fixed: Email reports are now sent out correctly and on time for various time spans. Fixed: Error messages are now scrollable allowing long error messages to be viewed. Fixed: Importing compressed log directories that contain empty log files will no longer abort import. Fixed: Sorting in the Sites grid now correctly sorts by the most recent sort chosen. Fixed: The DateTime picker now functions correctly when the browser has Australian selected for the language. Fixed: Using the impersonate window in Internet Explorer no longer returns a 404 not found. Version 8.0.4821 (2013-03-14) Fixed: An unconnected server can now be edited properly. Fixed: Buttons will now appear correctly in Import Filters page. Fixed: Context menu in the Sites grid now functions properly. Fixed: Geographic databases updated for better accuracy. Fixed: Report menus that pop up a modal window now allow clicking on the filter name, not just the arrow. Fixed: Run Diagnostics button now appears correctly in the Servers page. Fixed: Server Traffic Trend Reports will now correctly show the year. Version 7.7.4807 (2013-02-28) Fixed: Site tuning no longer reports urls with extra '/' as different pages and duplicate pages Fixed: Sites pages containing dynamic query string values are no longer considered seperate pages in site tuning Version 8.0.4807 (2013-02-28) IMPORTANT: Major versions contain architecture changes that prevent downgrading to previous major versions. Prior to upgrades, have a full backup if you may intend to rollback to a previous major version. Added: Auto-generated API documentation now allows details to be shown/hidden. Added: Back end changes and improvements to support the latest generations of browsers. Added: Cookies Notification on all login areas to comply with EU Cookie Laws. Added: Email reports will now wait until data is available before they are sent. Added: Geographic reports now include Unique Visitor counts. Added: Help pages have been implemented for every page if not there previously. Added: In Enterprise Edition, the sites list can now be filtered by server, making it much easier for administrators to review them. Added: Log format is now auto-detected for each file, so it is no longer necessary to know what type of log is being imported. Added: Rotating log files are now supported automatically by SmarterStats to better support Linux and Apache administrators and web servers. Added: SmarterStats will now detect the integrity of SEO website searches and update automatically if search engines change. Added: Status messages and tip text now drops down from the top of the page and no longer disrupt the page flow. Added: The web interface now supports right to left languages to better accommodate countries with non-Western character sets. Changed: Buttons that save or commit changes in modal windows have been moved to the right to be consistent with user interface standards. Changed: Fixed sizing of many dialog boxes and input fields to make them easier to use. Changed: Geographic database updated with new IP information. Changed: Language strings have been simplified so that they are easier to translate. Changed: The help link now defaults to "help for this page." Changed: The help popup has been moved to a drop down selection list in the top right of the interface. Removed: Removed the "do not show this again" option on modal windows. Removed: The option to enable/disable animations in the web interface has been removed. Fixed: Exporting report data now saves the file as the report name rather than just "ExportedData". Fixed: Missing images were corrected on the Log Analysis tab of the Edit Site popup. Fixed: Outbound HTTP requests from server will no longer consume all http connections. Fixed: Page details popup no longer shows "No Items" twice. Fixed: Renamed or compressed log files will no longer be re-imported as if they were new. Fixed: Select All will now function properly on the Custom Reports grid. Fixed: Selecting one or more suggested site will now properly add them to your list. Fixed: Test SMTP now functions properly in getting started wizard. Fixed: When activating a license, the interface now refreshes and redirects to the license page. Efficiency: CSS files have been converted to LESS which makes stylesheets much smaller, more efficient and speeds up rendering in browsers. Efficiency: Greatly increased the speed of log file imports. Efficiency: Greatly reduced the amount of memory needed to import log files. Efficiency: Increased performance and reduced memory requirements for loading sections of the web interface. Efficiency: Re-factored and completely re-wrote many areas of the web interface to reduce the amount of JavaScript code, CSS and HTML, making the entire web interface much faster, much more responsive and much lighter weight. Efficiency: Report names "Phrase Sources" and "Keyword Sources" have been changed to "Phrases by Source" and "Keywords by Source" respectively. Efficiency: The button bars were re-factored to be lighter weight controls. Efficiency: The context menus were re-factored to be lighter weight controls. Efficiency: The date pickers were re-factored to be lighter weight controls. Efficiency: The tree view controls were re-factored to be lighter weight controls. Version 7.7.4786 (2013-02-07) Fixed: An error will no longer occur when a title isn't provided for scheduled email reports. Fixed: Email report settings now function as expected when using SSL. Fixed: FTP will now properly download from Microsoft FTP server on newer Windows Server machines. Fixed: The setting to include GZ files will now be set properly editing FTP log locations for sites. Efficiency: Increased the responsiveness of the management interface when switching between sections. Version 7.7.4703 (2012-11-16) Fixed: An error will no longer occur when a title isn't provided for scheduled email reports. Fixed: Email report settings now function as expected when using SSL. Fixed: The setting to include GZ files will now be set properly editing FTP log locations for sites. Efficiency: Increased the responsiveness of the management interface when switching between sections. Version 7.6.4695 (2012-11-08) Added: Language can now be set when using the auto login script for site administrators. Fixed: Configuring the Included Web Server to listen on All IP Addresses will now function correctly. Fixed: Remote servers will no longer be able to get added when SmarterStats cannot connect to it. Version 7.6.4682 (2012-10-26) Fixed: Email report log will now log the report frequency correctly. Fixed: Installer no longer flags service as Interact With Desktop. Fixed: Installer now functions properly on Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. Fixed: Internet Explorer will no longer require using compatibility mode when accessing SmarterStats. Fixed: The management interface will now load correctly when one or more remote servers aren't available. Version 7.5.4653 (2012-09-27) Added: New site tuning web services were added for consistency: GetSiteTuningIssues2, GetSiteTuningSettings2, SetSiteTuningSettings2 and StartSiteTuning2. Changed: Reports will now show a date range by the selected date and group by instead of just the selected date range. Changed: Time zone information has been updated. Fixed: An error will no longer occasionally occur causing the SEO config file to corrupt. Fixed: An error will no longer occur preventing site tuning settings from loading correctly. Fixed: Many administrative settings will now save as expected. Fixed: Site propagation will no longer get stuck in certain circumstances. Fixed: The Visits column has been properly renamed to Page Views for data mining reports. Version 7.4.4611 (2012-08-16) Added: A new web service method was added for GetUser2 and GetUsers2 to the UserAdmin web service that will return EmailAddress and support future functionality. Fixed: A site will no longer occasionally get stuck in phase 2 when reprocessing log files. Fixed: An error will no longer occasionally occur when loading the web interface as an admin. Fixed: An error will no longer occur when adding a log source. Fixed: Logging into the Web interface when one or more remote services are unavailable now functions as expected. Fixed: Site propagation now functions as expected. Fixed: The Hits column has been properly renamed to Visits for data mining reports Fixed: The service will now process FTP logs older than 3 days and over a passive connection. Version 7.3.4541 (2012-06-07) Fixed: Data mining reports for username now function as expected. Fixed: Downloading logs using FTP will now properly use active and passive modes. Fixed: It's now possible to get to drill down reports from spider related reports. Fixed: Obsolete web services will now return results in the same format as they did in previous versions. Fixed: Page position is now properly displayed in Google UK SEO reports. Fixed: Page rank now functions as expected for Google UK SEO reports. Fixed: SEO competitors are now processed as expected when several campaigns are configured. Fixed: SmarterLog auto-delete will now be propagated correctly. Fixed: When a site gets created and the Site Admin Email address is set, users logging in with that email address for the first time will no longer have to go through the setup wizard. Version 7.2.4499 (2012-04-04) Fixed: Changing the campaign in SEO-related custom report items no longer resets other fields on the page. Fixed: Creating sites using our deprecated Web services now functions as expected. Fixed: Definition files for Google SEO reports have been updated for more accurate results Fixed: Disabling an SEO keyword now functions as expected. Fixed: Enabling site tuning for a site now functions as expected. Fixed: FTP .tmp files are now cleared before attempting to download log files from an FTP server. Fixed: Refreshing the management interface no longer loads the incorrect page. Fixed: Results for the Bing search engine now display as expected. Fixed: Site tuning now supports additional page extensions. Fixed: Site tuning values can now be propagated to sites as expected Fixed: The selected campaign is now remembered when adding an SEO-related report item to a custom report. Fixed: The selected competitor is now remembered when adding an SEO-related report item to a custom report. Fixed: The status of a site now updates as expected. Version 7.1.4450 (2012-03-08) Removed: The option to make exclusions permanent has been removed from Site Importing settings. Fixed: Import filters now function as expected. Fixed: Recipient email addresses can now be separated by semicolons or commas when sending scheduled emailed reports. Fixed: SEO reports for Ask.com now return results as expected. Fixed: Site tuning settings can now be saved as expected. Fixed: Spider data is no longer included in statistics when the drilldown feature in reports is used. Fixed: The Getting Started page now functions as expected. Fixed: The keyword suggestion tool no longer times out when the connection is slow. Fixed: The status percentage for SEO processing no longer sticks when an error processing stats occurs. Fixed: URLs from Google now display correctly in SEO position reports. Version 6.5.4450 (2012-03-08) Fixed: Adding the Spider Top Pages report item to a custom report no longer causes the custom report to fail. Fixed: Charts for report items by day of week now display the correct labels. Fixed: Exceptions that occur on remote servers now send details about the exception to the MRS for logging. Fixed: Log source folder changes are now honored by site moves. Fixed: Poorly quoted strings in log files no longer cause the log import to fail. Fixed: SEO reports for Ask.com now return results as expected. Fixed: URLs from Google now display correctly in SEO position reports. Version 7.1.4415 (2012-02-02) Changed: A confirmation window now displays when multiple custom reports are deleted at once. Changed: Some version-specific configuration files were moved out of App_Data\Config to avoid accidental overwriting. Fixed: A few custom report items that were not being generated correctly have been fixed. Fixed: Blank page titles are now reported correctly in site tuning. Fixed: Changing the default date range for which report statistics are calculated now takes effect immediately. Fixed: Clicking on the plus sign in the data mining browse popup now functions as expected. Fixed: Corrected a bandwidth rounding error. Fixed: Counts in site tuning now display correctly while scanning. Fixed: Custom report items now save properly when the chart type is set to none. Fixed: Email reports now properly encode periods. Fixed: Email reports sent through TLS now function as expected. Fixed: Grouping functions in the server trend report now function as expected. Fixed: If a server cannot be contacted while generating server summary, server trend or site summary reports, it is now indicated on the report. Fixed: If a user's session times out while viewing statistics, the application now properly redirects the user to the login page. Fixed: Report styles now display properly in Internet Explorer. Fixed: Sitemap links to external sites in robots.txt files are no longer be treated as missing when discovered by site tuning. Fixed: The actions menu in IP Address columns now displays properly when the arrow is clicked. Fixed: The columns "First Hit" and "Last Hit" in the Top Files from IP Address data mining report have been renamed to "First Hit in Visit" and "Last Hit in Visit" respectively. Fixed: The date field now displays correctly on the View Logs page. Fixed: The delete button no longer displays on report items, as only custom reports can be deleted. Version 7.0.4402 (2012-01-20) Fixed: The actions menu now functions as expected when viewing the list of sites. Fixed: The site setting to look for logs in .gz and .zip archives now saves properly if it is disabled. Version 7.0.4401 (2012-01-19) Added: A new site tuning check to warn users if images are missing alt tags. Added: A new View menu to the sites list, allowing administrators to choose what fields show up in the Sites sidebar, as well as how they are sorted. Added: Custom report items can now be configured to exclude charts. Added: Google.cl is now included to the list of possible search engines for SEO reporting. Added: Web services documentation is now available to system administrators from the settings section of the Web interface. Changed: Minor Web services changes to SiteTuning.asmx for consistency. Changed: Site tuning is now limited to 120 pages per minute when using the SmarterStats Free. Fixed: Custom report trend items are now properly converted from previous versions. Fixed: Custom reports can now be deleted as expected. Fixed: Date range menus now display properly when editing custom report items. Fixed: Email reports now properly show the sorting icon. Fixed: Report items within a custom report can now be deleted as expected. Fixed: Search engine listings in settings are now properly sorted. Fixed: Servers dropdown will no longer appear on non-administrator reports. Fixed: System-level reports no longer display in the list of available custom report items. Efficiency: Site tuning now make fewer redundant hits to pages while scanning. Version 7.0.4394 (2012-01-13) Added: A Getting Started webpage that opens in the user's browser after installing SmarterStats for the first time using the automated installer. Added: A new column for the date the report was last sent was added to the scheduled email reports page. Added: A new data mining report that shows hits by username. Added: A new Top Keywords SEO report. Added: A page details view that shows activity for a page and site tuning issues. Added: A popup menu in reports that allows users to quickly perform a related task that offers additional information, such as data mining queries, viewing page details or opening the URL. Added: A server active processes view that shows all currently executing tasks on each server connected to SmarterStats. Added: A server profile option that allows system administrators to quickly tune the CPU usage of SmarterStats services. Added: Added overview pages to SEO that show a summary of campaigns and keywords, as well as importing status. Added: An option in General Settings to prevent sites from overriding SMTP settings. Added: Dynamic user agent detection that improves how SmarterStats detects new browsers and platforms. Added: Geographic reports now show on the map what data value is being reported on. Added: Load balancing reports by hostname, server IP and server name. Added: Multiple SEO keywords can now be added at the same time. Added: New reports for recent spider details and recent spider activity. Added: New Web service methods to add or modify specific site users. Added: Operating system reports based on incoming user agents. Added: Percentage indicators on reports, which can be enabled/disabled at the user level. Added: Reminders that notify system administrators when a new version of the product is available. Added: Reports that show the percentage of page bounces, entries, and exits. Added: Secure Link Broken (MRS Not Authorized) errors can now be quickly fixed using the ResetSecureLink.bat file in the service folder. Added: Site tuning that proactively scans your site for errors and warns about items that could negatively affect SEO, such as broken links, multiple redirects and performance issues. Added: Sites can now be set up with any combination of log analysis, site tuning, and/or SEO, allowing for sites to be created that do not even have log files. Added: Support for importing from log files contained in ZIP or GZ archives. Added: Support for international characters in reports. Added: Support for SSL over SMTP as well as SMTP authentication. Added: System administrators can now configure the number of SEO campaigns a site can have. Added: System-level reports now display a message indicating that the report is system-wide. Added: The ability to add data mining queries to custom reports. Added: The ability to allow users to reset their account password if it is forgotten. Added: The ability to include data from more than two columns in a chart. Added: The ability to propagate site time zones. Added: The ability to quickly resend an email report to the original recipients. Added: The ability to send scheduled email reports in different languages. Added: The ability to specify multiple recipients for scheduled email reports. Added: The ability to test SMTP settings from the Setup Wizard. Added: The Top Files from IP data mining report now shows the date of the first hit and last hit to each file. Added: Video tutorials to help administrators configure the product that can be accessed from the settings section of the management interface. Changed: A default SEO campaign is now automatically created for sites. Changed: Bots and spiders are no longer included in demographic reports. Changed: Charts are now enabled by default in email reports. Changed: Data mining report columns were refactored to be more useful. Changed: Every report item in a custom report now has separately configurable date ranges and other properties. Changed: Folder browse dialogs are now much easier to use. Changed: Free edition is now limited to a single SEO campaign instead of 10 SEO keywords. Changed: Improved the algorithm used to render geographic map reports so that color ranges display better and labels automatically scale. Changed: Items on pie charts that are less than 3% of the total pie area are grouped together as "other items." Changed: Items under MRS\Temp have been moved to use MRS\App_Data\Temp, resulting in less permissions that need to be defined when moving to IIS. Changed: Keyword and competitor suggestions are now accessible when creating or editing a campaign. Changed: MRS Not Authorized messages have been renamed to "Secure Link Broken." Changed: Pages relating to servers and server status are now located in the settings section. Changed: Phrase sources and keyword sources reports now include a search engine column to be more consistent with other reports. Changed: Recent visitor reports no longer include spiders. Changed: Renamed mobile device reports to "Devices" due to the amount of cross-over devices on the market. Changed: Reorganized all settings pages for system administrators. Changed: Reports that had variants like daily, weekly, monthly, etc. have been consolidated to trend reports that contain a group by option. Changed: Scheduled email reports are now managed from the settings section. Changed: SEO configuration settings have been moved to the settings section Changed: SEO reports have been renamed for consistency. Changed: Simplified email settings. Changed: Site administrators can now export log files that cover more than 30 days. Changed: Site management has been redesigned to improve usability. Changed: Standard reports are now automatically created as custom reports, allowing users to modify or delete them as necessary. Changed: Support for multiple include-only items in the same filter set. Changed: The Bandwidth by IP Address data mining report is now named Visitor Bandwidth. Changed: The debug level in Server Settings is now a list with friendly names to improve usability. Changed: The default report settings have been updated. It is recommended that customers upgrading from a previous version of SmarterStats implement the new defaults by clicking the Load Defaults button on the Report Settings page. Changed: The Generate Report button has been moved to the content pane toolbar. Changed: The report options bar has been redesigned to improve usability. Changed: The site ID of "admin" is now optional when logging in as the system administrator. Changed: Total footer rows no longer include items excluded by filter sets. Changed: Updated the geolocation database for better accuracy. Changed: Users are no longer required to provide the current password when changing their password if they are currently logged in. Changed: Various edit operations are now performed in popup windows, so multiple items can now be edited simultaneously. Changed: Views per visit report no longer includes sessions that hit no pages during their visit. Changed: Visit length is now formatted as a time span instead of a total number of seconds. Removed: Max Standard Report Days setting is no longer used and was removed. Removed: Overview reports have been removed. Users will now start in a default report for each section. Removed: Removed obsolete Web services functions in Services/Bandwidth.asmx. These have been replaced by Services/Statistics.asmx. Removed: The "Engine for Overviews" option has been removed from SEO settings. Removed: The average summary row has been removed from reports. Removed: The favorite report functionality has been removed in favor of custom reports. Removed: The filtered items footer has been removed from report items because it was causing confusion. Removed: The search volume field has been removed from SEO keywords. Removed: The site name has been removed from report titles to avoid confusion. Removed: To reduce confusion, the ability to lock date range and filter set options for custom reports has been removed. Fixed: Changing a site name now properly takes effect on the Sites page. Fixed: Custom report items now pull from the correct report list. Fixed: Deleting a site and then adding a new site with the same ID without stopping the SmarterStats service no longer copies the SEO properties of the old site to the new site. Fixed: Email report delivery thread no longer stops occasionally when IIS recycles the application pool. Fixed: Group by will no longer show up in the summary area of reports when the option is not selected. Fixed: If a geographic report has less than four colors rendered, the other colors in the legend now hide properly. Fixed: Page utilization reports now calculate the score correctly. Fixed: Passwords pasted into the login screen from Excel now function as expected. Fixed: Pie charts now display page aliases when applicable. Fixed: Plain text parts of scheduled email reports sent as HTML+TEXT are now properly filled with data. Fixed: Printing a report in Chrome no longer causes the browser to crash. Fixed: Resolved various minor bugs and usability issues. Fixed: SEO campaign importing no longer fails if there is no log file analysis data for the current month. Fixed: SEO reports that do not require keywords now generate properly when keywords do not exist. Fixed: The Bandwidth by IP Address data mining report now displays the correct results. Note that this report is now named Visitor Bandwidth. Fixed: The competitor and keyword suggestion tools now only use the search engine(s) selected on the site and will default to Google if no search engine is selected. Fixed: The operating systems report now functions properly in custom reports. Fixed: The referrers and referring sites data mining reports now properly refer to the same data set. Fixed: The referring sites data mining report now properly displays referring sites rather than referring URLs. Fixed: The return visits report item is now sorted correctly. Fixed: Visits column now displays footer information in site activity reports. Fixed: When a Secure Link Broken (MRS Not Authorized) exception occurs when saving a new site, the system will now allow the save to complete before warning the administrator. Efficiency: Faster application shutdown when using IIS. Efficiency: Implemented various CPU and memory enhancements that can substantially reduce the amount of memory the SmarterStats service uses to analyze and generate reports. Efficiency: Implemented various interface optimizations to improve performance and usability on mobile devices like iPads, tablet computers and smartphones. Version 6.5.4310 (2011-10-20) Changed: Updated SEO definitions to accomodate for changes to Google PageRank algorithm Changed: Updated SEO definitions to accomodate for changes to keyword ranking algorithms Version 6.5.4296 (2011-10-06) Fixed: A favorite report that is edited will now function properly when viewing the report. Fixed: Percentage bars in email reports now display correctly. Fixed: Propagating server settings no longer causes the service to fail to stop. Fixed: Resolved a cause of high memory situations. Fixed: Scheduled email reports now apply selected filter set(s) as expected Version 6.4.4254 (2011-08-25) Added: New definitions to improve spider and bot detection Changed: Geographic databases updated for better location resolution. Changed: Report items in the custom report editor are now sorted alphabetically. Changed: Scheduled email reports now send after 4:00 AM in the timezone set for the website to accommodate higher-workload servers. Fixed: Editing a site with multiple primary administrators no longer displays an error. Fixed: Leased licenses now properly remain activated. Fixed: Paths with encoded characters such as + and ' now function as expected in data mining. Fixed: Problems with system performance counters will no longer cause SmarterStats to use a lot of CPU trying to examine them. Fixed: SEO rankings now properly ignore Google's "Places for X near Y" results. Fixed: Server propagation no longer displays an error when a connection to a server times out. Fixed: Sorting now functions as expected in the Spider Daily Totals report. Fixed: The report item Daily Visit Length and the data mining report Daily Activity now show data correctly when added to custom reports Fixed: Updated Google definitions to accommodate the search engine's rendering changes implemented on 8/14/2011. Version 6.3.4212 (2011-07-14) Changed: When editing a site, the Site URL field is now pre-filled with the assigned value. Fixed: Adjusted processing to ignore timeouts when processing from FTP logs, allowing SmarterStats to process all FTP logs. Fixed: Custom and favorite reports now display the date range that was used when creating the report. Fixed: Custom reports that were set to sort by day in SmarterStats 5.x and earlier are now upgraded correctly. Fixed: IP address based reports with IP address resolution enabled are now generated much faster. Fixed: Numeric fields no longer include comma separators when exported to a comma or tab delimited file due to some cultures use of commas as a decimal separator. Fixed: SEO processing of Google results now handles video and image search results correctly. Fixed: SmarterStats now remembers the previous installation path when upgrading. Fixed: The SmarterStats web interface folder permissions are now set up in a way that allows it to work under IIS 7.5 without any additional permissions changes by the user. Version 5.4.4100 (2011-03-24) Fixed: SEO processing for keywords and sites in Google has been updated to reflect a recent change in how Google search results are returned. Version 6.2.4100 (2011-03-24) Fixed: SEO processing for keywords and sites in Google has been updated to reflect a recent change in how Google search results are returned. Version 6.2.4072 (2011-02-24) Changed: Changed how SEO calls are made to Google and its language-specific domains (i.e. google.es, google.uk) to help prevent blocking delays. Fixed: SmarterStats now correctly differentiates between webmail referrals and search engine referrals. Fixed: The built-in Web server now returns HTTP version 1.1 as expected. Fixed: The GetActivityForServer function in the statistics Web service now functions as expected. Fixed: The GetForServer function in the bandwidth Web service now functions as expected. Version 6.1.3974 (2010-11-18) Fixed: Switching between data mining queries now retains the filename or IP address to generate accurate reports. Efficiency: The Sites page of the system administrator interface now retrieves the activity and status information for the sites currently displayed on the page instead of all of the sites in the system. Version 6.0.3932 (2010-10-07) Added: A new report detailing the ISPs of site visitors. Added: A new report item for mobile device versions that displays the most popular versions of mobile devices used to access the site. Added: A popup window with a Getting Started checklist to help system administrators get new installations up and running. Added: A redesigned user interface that improves performance and usability. Added: All report pages now indicate the date ranges of imported log files. Added: An option to set the base URL for the site to make URL links in reports clickable. Added: Browser and platform reports now separate blank (masked) user agents from unknown user agents. Added: Browser definitions have been updated to improve support for Safari and Opera. In addition, more detail about versions of browsers is now available. Added: Dozens of new spider and bot detections, plus routines to detect generic unknown bots, spiders and crawlers. Added: Dual axis charting for many reports, resulting in reports that are easier to read and better for detecting trends. Added: Email reports now display an error message if email settings are not defined. Added: Filter sets now include easy ways to exclude blank user agents and referrers. Added: Geographic cities reports now include the state/province of the city, if applicable. Added: Import from IIS now imports default documents and site name as well as log location. Added: International Google site definitions for monitoring and evaluating SEO efforts. Added: New overview reports to key interface sections. Added: Pie charts have been completely redesigned and now include "Other Items" so that the chart is correct no matter how many table rows are displayed. Added: Platform definitions have been updated to support many new devices, such as the iPad, iPhone and Android. They also detect existing platforms better and provide more information, such as specific models of BlackBerry devices. Added: Search bar added to top of some configuration pages. Added: Slashes (/) in reports are now rendered differently to make URLs easier to read. Added: The ability to cancel report generation by closing the progress window. Added: The ability to quickly data mine IP addresses in report items. Added: The ability to search for a site by site name or site ID. Added: To facilitate logging in to view reports, a new View Stats button has been added to the Sites page. Added: To improve usability, data mining has been redesigned and functions similarly to an advanced search. Added: User and site name are now visible at the top of the interface. Changed: Add/Edit site now displays in a popup window, allowing administrators to edit multiple sites at a time. Changed: All report items were evaluated to determine the best default views and settings for them individually. Changed: Bandwidth report columns now show in MB. Changed: Charts now use the built-in ASP.NET 4.0 chart component. Changed: Favorites, Custom Reports, and Scheduled Email Reports have been redesigned for ease of use and configuration. Changed: For SEO purposes, Google is now enabled by default for new sites. Changed: Functionality to import logs from IIS has moved to be more prominent in Add/Edit Site popup. Changed: Geographic maps were updated to improve clarity and usability. Changed: Installer updated to use a newer version of InstallShield that includes support for .NET 4.0. Changed: Percentage boxes now display for all counts, including 0. Changed: Report items have been reorganized into sections to make it easier to find them Changed: SEO campaign, keyword and competitor setup is now performed from within the SEO section. Changed: Settings pages with configuration sub-pages have been modified to open related windows without navigating away from the page. Changed: SmarterStats 6.x now requires Microsoft.NET 4.0. Changed: Some SEO reports now default to no chart to make them easier to use. (Chart can still be added manually.) Changed: The default ordering for data displayed in SEO trend reports is now consistent with other reports. Changed: The Log Status page, which details which log files have been imported, is now visible to site administrators. Changed: The names of some SEO report items have been changed to better describe the report content. Changed: The option to impersonate an user is now called View Site as User. When clicked, administrators can select the desired user from a list. Changed: The Time Taken column in server health reports has been renamed Time (ms). Removed: Silverlight charting was removed due to incompatibilities on many devices. Attention was placed instead on making the standard charts better. Fixed: Exporting a large report now functions as expected. Fixed: If a search engine is enabled for a site and is later removed, the search engine positions report now properly excludes that search engine from the report. Fixed: Reminders popup window now functions as expected when dismissing or snoozing a reminder. Fixed: SmarterStats now begins importing data as soon as an SEO campaign is created. Fixed: The View Logs page now properly reports back Web interface based log files. Efficiency: Percentage indicators on table rows no longer require many separate images in emails and in the Web interface. Security: Various UI changes have been made to prevent XSS attacks. Version 5.4.3925 (2010-09-30) Fixed: Files with spaces in the name can now be drilled down into data mining queries as expected. Fixed: Improved URL matching and SEO processing so that URLs such as example.com no longer return report data for URLs such as 123example.com. Security: Turned on custom error messages to resolve an ASP.NET security vulnerability that allows an attacker to request and download files within an ASP.NET application. Security: Various UI changes have been made to prevent XSS attacks. Version 5.3.3819 (2010-06-17) Fixed: Automatic updates to the SEO processing definition file no longer require the SmarterStats service to be restarted. Fixed: Custom reports containing multiple data mining favorite report items now display the correct data for all report items. Fixed: SEO trend reports now function as expected for sites with no SEO competitors. Fixed: Switching between top navigation sections in the SmarterStats web interface is now a lot faster for installations with thousands of sites. Fixed: The SEO parsing definitions file for SmarterStats has been updated to allow correct parsing of the Google search results count. Version 5.2.3771 (2010-04-29) Fixed: Auto-deletion of Web log files now works as expected. Fixed: Filter sets are now sorted alphabetically in all filter set drop-down lists. Fixed: FTP sites now process correctly when the FTP server settings include pipes in either the username or password. Fixed: If passive mode is not supported, SmarterStats now automatically downloads logs from a FTP server using non-passive mode. Fixed: Selecting a new primary site administrator now removes that role from any other users in the site. As a result, the user that previously served as the primary site administrator can now be deleted if desired. Fixed: The Browser Versions report item now displays unknown browsers correctly in the legend when the selected chart type is a flat pie chart. Fixed: The search engine definition for Microsoft Network now includes Bing and search engine reports will now refer to the Microsoft Network as Bing. Fixed: The sorting setting now functions as expected when generating and viewing favorite reports. Version 5.1.3666 (2010-01-14) Added: Smarterstats now detects if the default Web server has been disabled when upgrading from a previous version. This prevents the default Web server from inadvertently being re-enabled. Added: The ability to run SmarterStats under integrated mode in IIS. Changed: Non-trend SEO report items in a custom report now process data from the latest date in the custom reports date range. Changed: SmarterStats Free edition now limits the number of SEO keywords and competitors tracked in SEO campaigns to a maximum of 10 keywords and 10 competitors. Fixed: Custom reports containing favorite reports now generate properly. Fixed: Enabling a filter set as the active filter set now selects that filter set by default when viewing report items, standard reports, or data mining reports. Fixed: SmarterStats now processes the final line of log files properly. Fixed: Sorting by numeric data columns, such as visits or hits, now functions as expected on server-level reports. Fixed: The daily and monthly visitors report items now display correct statistics. Previously, some session data was lost between processing loops, resulting in inaccurate statstics ( such as lower visit counts in daily and monthly visit length report items). Fixed: The Export, Email and Print buttons on the SEO research pages now function as expected. Version 5.0.3631 (2009-12-10) Added: A dynamic page feature that gives site administrators the ability to select the pages that use dynamic variables and that should be treated/viewed as unique pages. Added: Additional user agent detection for mobile phones to identify mobile browsers and their functionality. Added: Asynchronous report retrieval to eliminate timeouts on report generation. Added: New breakdown reports to help individuals and businesses identify from which mobile devices visitors are accessing the site. Added: New system administrator level reports that aggregate data from all sites and servers, allowing administrators to identify the sites with the highest server utilization, bandwidth, etc. Added: Page aliases to give site administrators the ability to replace page paths with friendly names in reports. Added: SEO reports that help you identify and evaluate positions, visibility, saturation, and Google PageRank for your website and your competitors’ websites. Added: SEO reports that help you understand the performance of your website and your competitors’ websites in the Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask search engines. Added: SEO research tools for determining which keywords and competitors to track. Added: Standardized validation controls in the Web interface for consistency. Added: Status bars to help users understand the progress of reports as they are generated (especially helpful for websites with large amounts of traffic or when running large reports and data mining reports). Added: The ability to automate the process of monitoring search engine keyword rankings. Added: The ability to drive more high qualified traffic to your website by improving search engine visibility. Added: The ability to group keywords and competitors for similar products into campaigns to evaluate and compare their search engine performance to your own. Added: The ability to import from multiple log sources for a single site. Added: The ability to limit disk space usage by permanently excluding data from log processing using import filters. Added: The ability to monitor your search engine ranking information over time to identify trends. Added: The ability to track ranking information for an unlimited number of websites and keywords, including for competitor sites. Version 4.0.3476 (2009-07-07) Added: AddSite2, AddSiteWithFTP2 and UpdateSite2 Web service functions take the new TimeZoneIndex field introduced in a minor update to version 3. These replace the AddSite, AddSiteWithFTP and UpdateSite Web service functions that take the old TimeZoneID field. Changed: Columns in query string-related data mining reports were renamed from "Visits" to "Page Views." Fixed: A site added through Web services now displays the correct log file format in the Web interface settings. Fixed: Active visit information was not loading properly when going through a new log file processing session, resulting in slightly higher visit and visit length statistics. Fixed: All data mining reports now support host header and IP inclusions/exclusions. Fixed: Custom reports that included data mining reports did not always process them as data mining reports. This would either cause an error page or the wrong report to be displayed. Fixed: Fixed a time zone calculation issue where reprocessing/reimporting could assign some stats to an incorrect day. Fixed: Impersonation on servers whose number formatting does not use comma separators (1.000 instead of 1,000) on site IDs greater than or equal to 1,000 now function as expected. Fixed: Running the Diagnostics page now retains the session as expected. Fixed: SmarterStats FTP downloading now correctly handles two FTP server commands are sent together. Microsoft FTP servers did this over fast connections. Fixed: The 7-day Overview page now charts page views when using Silverlight charts. Fixed: The calculation of local time for some time zones could cause some stats to be assigned to the wrong day. Fixed: The Site Propagation page now functions properly when removing a line in the default documents field on the Site Defaults page. Fixed: The Top Pages report on the 7-day Overview page now include folder paths ending with forward slashes. The results now match the Files/Pages report. Fixed: User agent definitions now include Internet Explorer 8 and new versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Fixed: User agent definitions now include Windows 7 and iPhone platforms. Efficiency: The query for sites in the Manage/Sites page is faster. Version 4.0.3322 (2009-02-04) Fixed: Corrected an error that prevented Geographic reports from being viewed. Version 4.0.3310 (2009-01-22) Fixed: Corrected an issue where importing large sets of logs could cause an error that would severely slow down the import process. Fixed: Corrected an issue where the wrong set of fields were displayed on custom reports for certain selected reports. Fixed: Exported reports can now be opened with Windows zip. Fixed: Exported reports no longer show a WBR HTML tag in file and folder paths. Fixed: Favorite reports can now be added to Custom Reports. Fixed: Fields for Filter Set and Rows have been added to Custom Reports. Fixed: Manually sending email reports now allows multiple addresses in the To Field. Fixed: Old files are now automatically removed from the MRS\AppData\Temp directory. Fixed: The Debug Level field in Server Settings can now be set to a negative value. Fixed: The last column header of the Top Pages report on the 7 day overview page was changed from "Hits" to "Page Views" Fixed: The Silverlight animations are working. Fixed: The time zone field no longer resets to the default time zone after saving a sites settings. Fixed: Updated the Visifire Silverlight charting component which fixes and issue where charts would not always display. Version 3.3.3220 (2008-10-26) Fixed: Includes the correct license for the FTP component. Version 4.0.3217 (2008-10-21) Added: The Google Chrome browser now shows as a known browser in reports. Added: Updated the installer so future upgrades will remember the previous installation path. Changed: Scheduled email reports will now send after 2 am of the sites local time. This allows a little extra time for a sites logs to complete processing for the previous day. Changed: Silverlight charts now use the released version of Silverlight 2. Changed: Updated MaxMind Geographic files. Changed: Updated Nevron charting component. Fixed: A bug has been fixed that would cause some swapping of data between sites and bad imported rows when using multiple reader threads. Fixed: Added catching and logging of any exceptions in an area of the service which previously would crash the service. Fixed: An error has been fixed that would randomly cause the deletion of sites to fail. Fixed: Corrupted UnprocessedSessions.dat files are now detected and fixed automatically, allowing log files to continue to process correctly. Fixed: Having no data on the 7 day overview page when using SilverLight charts will no longer throw a JavaScript exception. Fixed: Impersonation will no longer fail for sites with a site id of 1000 or greater. Fixed: In some cases the custom report options failed to save correctly. Fixed: Logging out of the Veridian skin will no longer throw an exception. Fixed: Scheduled email reports now display the full SmarterStats version number correctly. Fixed: The date picker popup calendar is no longer cut off by the right side of the browser window. Fixed: The option to display charts when manually emailing a Data Mining report will now work. Efficiency: Changed the function to check if a user agent is a spider to cache previous results. Efficiency: Changed the site status information on the sites page to pull the data via AJAX. Previous versions either continuously updated a cache for all sites or waited to retrieve the status information from all sites viewed on the page before returning the page which caused very slow page loads. Security: Fixed a vulnerability that allowed users to access site admin pages. Version 3.3.3217 (2008-10-21) Security: Fixed a vulnerability that allowed users to access site admin pages. Version 4.0.3159 (2008-08-24) Added: Report subheaders added to show selected options such as date range and filter. Changed: Downloading logs through the web interface now downloads the entire log file instead of just the selected date range. Changed: The site name is now included to the right of the report title. Fixed: Browsing folders did not work for the professional version when added a new site. Fixed: Filter sets sorting shared same session storage as site sorting which could cause errors on either page. Fixed: Firefox wrapped buttons in the button bar for some pages. Fixed: FTP downloading was not always correctly tracking last downloaded file. Fixed: Geo IP City file was not included in the main installer, resulting in all geographics data to show under the world report with N/A for both the country and the city. Fixed: Grid sorting was only sorting the items on the currently viewed page. Fixed: Improved the FTP recovery from error conditions. Fixed: In a very specific case the welcome page could incorrectly show that no data is available. Fixed: Log export page was not showing when the sites export fields were set. Fixed: Log file searches of web interface logs, along with some searches of the service logs were case sensitive. Fixed: Printing standard reports only printed the first page. Fixed: Resolved most common cause of a thread aborted exception when importing large sites. Fixed: Scheduled email reports were not sending standard reports correctly. Fixed: Temporary files created when downloading logs were saving to the "c:\temp" folder instead of the SmarterStats web applications temp folder. Fixed: The 7 day overview bandwidth chart Y axis values were cropped for large values. Fixed: The FTP component had timing issues with some FTP servers, including FileZilla. Fixed: The FTP component was not handling multiple line responses correctly. Fixed: The help popup showed the SmarterStats version in 4 build parts. Fixed: The logs imported page gave an error until the first log file completed importing. Fixed: Times were not accounting for the sites Time Zone correctly on the “Visitors / Recent Visitor Stats” and “Visitors / Recent Visitor Details” reports. Fixed: When viewing logs, the pro version hid the server drop down list which prevents selection of localhost service logs. Efficiency: HTML is now compressed before being sent to the browser. Efficiency: Improved import efficiency. For some large sites importing will be many times faster. Version 4.0.3131 (2008-07-28) Fixed: Default server processing values have been corrected. Fixed: Defaults server settings and default site settings are now available in the System Administrator settings area. Fixed: Several missing language strings have been corrected. Fixed: Sites upgraded from SmarterStats 2 will no longer cause an error. Fixed: The manage sites page no longer requests server information during the page load. This will significantly improve the loading speed of this page for installs with remote servers. Version 4.0.3126 (2008-07-23) Added: Ability to drill down into data mining reports from report items. Added: Advanced Charts and Graphs using Microsoft Silverlight. Added: Getting started wizard for administrators. Added: Getting started wizard for users. Added: Management Interface was re-engineered for improved management of servers and sites. Added: New data mining reports have been added for a total of 15 data mining reports. Added: New geographic report items (including breakdowns by city) have been added for a total of 18 geographic report items. Added: New page for Server defaults. Added: New page for Site defaults. Added: New page to propagate settings across Servers. Added: New page to propagate settings across Sites. Added: New spider report items have been added for a total of 15 spider report items. Added: New visitor report items (including server utilization breakdown) have been added for a total of 55 report items. Added: Reporting is now designed after the STReportingFramework. Added: Reporting is now separated between real visitor data and spider / bot traffic. Existing sites must re-process statistics for data to be separated and new reports to show data. Added: STInterfaceFramework for standardized skinning and enhanced navigation. Added: Web based log viewer. Added: Web interface responsiveness enhanced with AJAX callbacks and in-page pop-ups. Changed: Add / Edit server page now uses multiple tabs instead of a wizard. Changed: Long string columns allow wrapping using the WBR tag instead of adding spaces. Changed: Server status page removed. Now available within server list grid. Changed: Service settings page moved to a tab on the edit server page. Changed: Site Importing now uses multiple tabs instead of a wizard. Fixed: Adding a user set the DefaultRowCount to 0 which means unlimited rows. This caused predictable performance issues if the user setup automatic email reports. Efficiency: Improved FTP performance. Efficiency: Improved speed and memory utilization of Remote Agents. Efficiency: SmarterStats is now built on the .NET 3.5 Framework. Version 3.3.2950 (2008-01-29) Added: Default Site Settings now contains an option to set the default time zone for newly added sites. Added: Time zones will now adjust for daylight savings time automatically. Changed: Several time zone updates were made, including one added for the new Venezula Caracas time zone. Fixed: A rare FTP exception was fixed that caused download session to end with "Could not find directory" even if the directory exists. Fixed: W3C log importer was not properly handling quoted strings in some cases. Version 3.3.2761 (2007-07-23) Added: Logging added for activation and licensing. Changed: Geographic database from MaxMind was updated to more current information. Fixed: Duplicate email reports could be sent out in some cases. Fixed: Email report processing interval will now correctly be taken into account. Fixed: Sometimes the autogenerated help page would not show up for Web Services. Version 3.3.2693 (2007-05-17) Added: A new web service, called Query.asmx, was added to facilitate querying SmarterStats from external programs. Added: License validation with audit tracking. Added: Strong passwords can now be created for added protection. Added: You can now specify an inverse filter in your filter sets by adding a (!) symbol in front of the filter. Changed: Updated the UserAgentDef.xml file to include several more spiders and browsers. Fixed: Certain releases of Opera 8 and 9 will now correctly show their version numbers in Browser reports Fixed: Compression component was replaced to improve performance and resolve a rare compression bug. Fixed: Custom reports will now graph the fields that you specified when creating the report instead of defaults. Fixed: Geographic database from MaxMind was updated to more current information. Fixed: In the Geographic reports, Iceland is now correctly counted in Europe instead of North America Fixed: Resolved an issue which would sometimes throw a "Stream not Readable" error when attempting to parse a log file. Fixed: Service Version Info page was throwing "Page Not Found" exception Fixed: SmarterStats will no longer consider accessing content with a different browser string a seperate visit. You must reimport your logs to see this on past data. Fixed: The default filter set will now filter on the welcome page. Fixed: When re-processing a large site, it will now react more quickly when the service is stopped. Version 3.2.2602 (2007-02-15) None: Please note that if you use Enterprise Edition, the main installation and all remote services need to be updated with this release because of back-end changes to the communication protocol. Fixed: Email reports failed to send if reports contained the character '{' Fixed: Exported logs were always exporting as W3Cex logs Fixed: If a site##.xml file has an internal site ID value that doesn't match the actual site ID, it will now get fixed automatically. Fixed: Remote servers in different time zones than the MRS servers will no longer cause time offset problems in reporting. Fixed: When using hackable URLs and web services (ex. /programfile.asmx/functionname), traffic numbers and page view numbers didn't match up. Version 3.2.2539 (2007-01-02) Fixed: .IHTML files are now considered page views Fixed: Data mining browse popup was hiding documents in the default document list Fixed: Duplicate email reports could be sent out in some cases Fixed: Reprocessing statistics has been made significantly faster with very large sites Version 3.2.2480 (2006-10-16) Added: Browser and OS list updated to support IE 7, FireFox 2, Windows Vista, and several other new browser and OS types. Fixed: Data Mining Query "What is the daily activity that this file gets" was showing empty days in certain cases. Fixed: Resolved a rare issue where the number of sites appeared incorrectly in very large installations.. Version 3.1.2357 (2006-06-28) Fixed: Certain conditions could cause the import loop to stall. This has been resolved. Fixed: Export would show no data if exporting data from a report favorite. Fixed: Exporting Search Engine reports will now properly show the engine name and column headers Fixed: Favorites now get properly sent in email reports Fixed: Host Header exclusions are now taken into account with visit length, page view, entry, exit, path, and recent visitor reports. Fixed: The web service Statistics/GetActivityForServer was caching results improperly, leading to incomplete result sets when calling multiple servers one after another. Fixed: When emailing a custom report that includes report items that have custom date settings, the header for the email report will now read "Date Range: [multiple]" Version 3.1.2312 (2006-05-01) Added: An option to disable FTP resuming was added due to incorrect behavior through some firewalls. Added: CompressionLevel setting added to server properties that allows values from 0 to 9 (5 by default). Lower values perform better for larger sites while sacrificing some disk space Added: File exclusions now available in site import settings. Added: Import times can be configured through the server properties page. The default is to run all the time, 00:00 to 23:59. Import processes will not start outside of this time frame. Using this setting will also cause reprocessing stats for sites to be delayed until that time frame, so take this into consideration when overriding the values. Added: Number of minutes of idle time between import loops (idle time) can be configured in the server properties page. Added: Server Properties page was added to the free and Professional Editions of the product to give access to settings for the background service. Fixed: "Logged In As" is now translatable Fixed: Adding a data mine report to a favorite now properly shows the query item report. Fixed: Changes to existing sites' FTP information would not take effect until the service did a full synchronization (every hour) Fixed: Downloading from FTP Servers that use SUID, SGID, or Sticky, then downloads could sometimes fail Fixed: Hong Kong added to Asia report Fixed: Recent Visitor reports now take site exclusions and inclusions into effect Fixed: Search engine parsing corrected for Walla.IL, onet.pl, and interia.pl Fixed: Sort order was not being applied correctly in custom report items. Fixed: The string "Strip URL items after semicolon (used for jsessionid)" is now translatable Fixed: Uruguay added to South America report Fixed: Visit length, views per visit, and visit totals reports sometimes did not match after reprocessing stats Version 3.1.2181 (2005-12-21) Added: More advanced email report logging was enabled. (To enable, update the MRS\web.config file so that SSWeb.LoggingLevel has a value of "-10") Added: Several more spider/bot definitions were added Fixed: A rare exception with email reports was resolved Fixed: Denmark and Hungary now properly show up in the Europe report Fixed: DNS resolution sets taking more than 2 minutes as a whole will be aborted and the results returned as is Fixed: Overflow errors could occur when running reports on high-activity sites for large date ranges. Fixed: Popup calendar was not working on some browsers Fixed: Resolved an uncommon issue with dynamic encoding for some search engines Fixed: Search engines that cannot be decoded were breaking layout elements Fixed: Username was case sensitive when logging in as global admin Fixed: When "Rows per page" in General Settings was set to 0, Manage Sites page threw an exception Fixed: When email reports take more than a day to get through the list, weekly or monthly reports could have been skipped. Version 3.1.2119 (2005-10-20) Added: Customizable query timeout frequency added to web.config Added: Dynamic encodings can now be detected in search engines with an EncodingKW field in the SearchEngines.xml file Added: FTP now supports resume (on servers that support it), greatly reducing network traffic for downloading logs Added: New report item "In-Site Referrers" that shows referrers due to site navigation Added: New report item "Referring Links" that shows entire URL of referral, including query string items Added: New web service (Diagnostics.asmx) that allows you to query server activity Changed: Referrer report items now exclude in-site navigation referrals (any hit after first) Fixed: "Help for this Page" link did not work properly for welcome page and reports pages Fixed: Changing Site Import Settings may not take effect right away, requiring you to reprocess the site more than once. Fixed: Deleting a custom report will now correctly delete any scheduled reports that use the custom report. Fixed: Deleting a site and rapidly adding a new site with the same ID would cause unexpected behavior Fixed: Email reports (on demand and scheduled) now properly exclude data in selected filter set Fixed: Export Report Data now properly excludes data in selected filter set Fixed: FTP download thread is immediately aborted on service stop Fixed: Heading on Query Items and Query Strings Data Mining Reports now correctly reads "Visits" Fixed: Help icons did not go to correct help topics in data mining reports Fixed: Search engines with priority levels of 6 or below are now properly searched for search engine reports Fixed: Setting a skin as the active skin was not changing it for the current session. Fixed: Some Japanese and Russian search engines were added or altered to support their native character sets Fixed: Subject was getting set incorrectly on emailed custom reports Fixed: Uploading a skin sometimes failed Efficiency: In logs that use RDNS, performance improvements have been made that make log processing up to 20 times faster Efficiency: Memory usage reduced and optimized to be more consistent Efficiency: Performance increased for log analyzing. In some cases, performance gains measured at more than 45% Version 3.0.2070 (2005-09-02) Fixed: A few issues regarding translations were resolved Fixed: Changing the date range when viewing reports did not update the Tasks shortcuts at the bottom-right of the page, which resulted in different data being exported or emailed Fixed: Editing a server errors with "That Server ID is already in use" Fixed: On some international locales, some settings do not save properly Fixed: Show Charts checkbox in email reports was sometimes not getting set properly Version 3.0.2061 (2005-08-23) Added: Daily activity data mining query to show trends for a specific resource Added: Different encoding types now supported in search engine string parsing Added: Plain Text option added for email reports Added: Show Charts option added to email reports Added: Support for Unix FTP servers that use the "(?)" string Changed: Email report subjects will now truncate the site name if it is more than 30 characters long Changed: If the localhost server is deleted from Enterprise Edition, it will not be automatically added again by SmarterStats Fixed: Action menu on Manage Servers page is incorrect Fixed: Chart type not applied in custom reports Fixed: Email reports were not getting imported on some systems converting from version 2.x. Those affected that still have copies of their old Config directories can contact SmarterTools support for a conversion utility. Fixed: Enter key can now be used to log in when using FireFox Fixed: Mauritius now appears in geographic report for Africa Fixed: Site level email report settings can now be cleared and saved to use global defaults Fixed: Site list was not always sorted correctly Fixed: Some users were getting license errors for the FTP components Fixed: Standard Email reports were not getting their subject set properly Fixed: The None filter set was actually using the active filter set Version 3.0.2047 (2005-08-08) Added: Advanced custom reports, that allow many more settings on each individual report item, including filter sets, date ranges, chart types, etc. Added: An intuitive sidebar was added to the product to allow you to quickly navigate between reports Added: Checkup page added (similar to SmarterTicket and SmarterMail) that helps in diagnosing some types of setup problems Added: Customizable report views, including several 3D and 2D views of data Added: Data Mining links were added within reports, that allow you to drill down into data with the click of a button Added: Default date range for users now has several additional options Added: Default documents can be defined by site. All hits to the default documents are grouped in results Added: Easy-to-use calendar control for picking date ranges, along with functionality to choose custom date ranges. Added: Email reports now support alternate SMTP ports Added: Email reports now support SMTP Authentication Added: Favorites, an easy way to save custom settings about a report and jump to it quickly in the future Added: Filter Sets, an easy way to jump between subsets of data, and much easier to use than Report Item Filters and Global Filters. Added: Import Settings from IIS automatically when adding a site Added: Integration with MaxMind geographic databases, including their optional premium service Added: More options were added to email reports, like custom messages and subject lines (Enterprise Edition Only) Added: Option to randomize chart colors on reports Added: Other Items in reports show the sub-totals of items not showing on the report Added: Percent bars show on reports instead of numerical percents, giving a better understanding of the relationship between the values Added: Remote service comes in an easy-to-automate MSI installer (Enterprise Edition Only) Added: Report item sorting, allowing you to sort result tables how you want Added: Self-diagnostics check the integrity of SmarterStats files automatically Added: Send to Printer link in reports outputs the report contents to the printer without the need for a “print friendly” page Added: Similar to other SmarterTools products, the interface is fully localized and translatable Added: Sites can include or exclude data from import based on Host Headers Added: Version update notification Added: Web services added to retrieve hits, visits, views, and bandwidth by system administrators or site administrators Changed: Activation fail-safes added to help prevent activation problems Changed: Browsers, Platforms, and Search Engine lists were updated for more accurate results Changed: Custom reports are now an Enterprise Edition feature Changed: Free edition now supports most functionality of Enterprise Edition to allow customers to experience all features Changed: Free version does not require any type of activation Changed: General performance enhancements were made to increase the stability and lower the resource usage of the product. Changed: Home page enhanced to show even more information at a glance. Changed: If import errors are encountered, the cause is shown on the customer side, instead of the standard “Your site is currently importing logs and data is unavailable” message Changed: Phrase Sources and Keyword Sources reports (formally Top Search Phrases by Engine and Top Search Keywords by Engine) now return the top X rows PER engine, not as a total number of rows for the report Changed: Redesigned user interface, focusing on ease of use and clarity Changed: Report items were combined in order to provide an easier, more intuitive method of reporting. Report names were altered for clarity Changed: Standard reports slightly adjusted to accommodate report item changes Changed: Wrapping of long items in reports enhanced Fixed: Changing site import settings was not properly setting data for first few minutes of data import, resulting in some artifacts remaining Fixed: Deleting a site and quickly adding another site with the same ID will no longer cause import issues Fixed: Report cache is now cleared whenever import settings are changed Version 2.7.1888 (2005-03-03) Added: Inclusions in Site Import Settings Changed: Browser listing updated to support more recent browsers Changed: Log files with resolved names now supported Fixed: Bandwidth By Server web service function no longer caches results incorrectly, which was causing rapid calls to different servers to return identical data. Fixed: Email reports were changed to accomodate more email viewer applications Fixed: FTP works with more FTP servers Fixed: International date formats supported on different servers Fixed: Rare memory issues with the web interface were resolved Fixed: Upgrades no longer require uninstall Fixed: W3Cex Log files that contain non-IIS rows should import successfully Version 2.6.3 (2004-10-25) Added: Option to strip out ;jsessionid=X from query string Added: Query string item exclusions Fixed: Communication between two servers of different locales will now function properly Fixed: Editing user from system admin failed on some users Fixed: NULL rows paused import on site Fixed: Several other minor issues were fixed Version 2.6.0 (2003-11-21) Added: Auto-detection of local log file types Added: Getting Started Help now embedded into the application for easy reference Added: New report - Return Visit Summary Changed: Licensing menu item has moved to Help menu and has been renamed "Product Activation" Fixed: Padding at the end of logs created by IIS will no longer falsely report bad rows Version 2.5.2 (2003-10-22) Added: Web service svcGlobalConfig added to allow bulk configuration utility to process sites. (Bulk configuration utility available by submitting a request to support@smartertools.com) Fixed: A date issue was fixed dealing with FTP transfers from boxes with non-US locale settings Fixed: Site Info page now allows administrators to choose to view another page of log file details Fixed: When using GMT offsets of +0000 or any non-hourly GMT offset, SmarterStats would fail to import rows from Common or NCSA logs Version 2.5.1 (2003-09-26) Added: More detailed error emails when MRS not authorized Fixed: Email reports were failing to be sent on some setups Fixed: Interactive reports now function in locales that are not en-us Version 2.5.0 (2003-09-17) Added: Default setting for SmarterLog directory has been added (administrators only) Added: Interactive report that shows top missing links Added: Interactive reports for Direct Referrers (those that directly link to a resource) Added: New users by day/month reports, which count a user only the first time they appear in the date range selected Added: Skinning now supports multiple skins being installed at the same time. Skin implementation can also be overridden by browser, platform, and browser version. Added: System administrators may add servers from the manage servers screen (enterprise version only) Added: System administrators may add sites from the manage sites screen Added: System administrators may now use enter on the manage sites screen Added: Window size can be chosen to allow user to select what size graphs and tables they desire Changed: Geographic database updated Changed: Help was adjusted to make it more easily viewed Changed: Interactive reports are now case-insensitive Changed: Interactive reports dealing with referrers now include the “No Referrer” statistic Changed: Interactive reports were renamed to make them more easily understood Changed: Look and feel of default skin adjusted to allow for better browser compatibility Changed: Microsoft .Net Framework removed from the installer to make it a smaller download. Framework is downloaded from the web if needed. Changed: Must register to use the free version Changed: Report item filters box now shows report names sorted in alphabetical order Changed: Report item list in custom reports is sorted Changed: Spider and browser lists updated Changed: Standard reports and Custom reports have been combined into one menu item called “Reports” Changed: Top 404 and 500 error reports are now case-insensitive Changed: Unique users by day/month reports now count a user once in each day/month Fixed: A path-related statistics issue was found and corrected Fixed: Alignment and titles were fixed on interactive reports Fixed: An internationalization issue was identified that halted log parsing Fixed: Browse for folder on Add/Edit Site was not working before first site added. Fixed: Email reports did not have the correct style Fixed: Email reports were displaying a tag in the subject when manually sent by a user Fixed: General settings field “send problem emails” did not save correctly. Fixed: Many browser issues are addressed Fixed: Printed reports did not have the correct style Fixed: Service Setting admin page works when server name is different from actual NetBIOS name (Enterprise version only). Fixed: The IP interactive reports were not combining bandwidth correctly. This issue has been addressed. Fixed: W3C log files created on Windows .Net Server 2003 that included the sc_win32_status imported incorrectly. This issue has been corrected. Version 2.0.0 (2003-07-25) Added: 65 new report items have been added giving end-users over 125+ report items to view. Added: Ability to monitor good and bad lines in log files per log file. This replaces the previous total log line count for each log file. Added: Additional information about the status of a site import to better monitor a sites status. Added: An auto report generation option has been added for end-users who do not want to automate the "get report" button. Added: Browse button in the site configuration to help choose ftp paths for standard log files. Added: Browse button in the site configuration to help choose local or remote directories for SmarterStats log files. Added: Browse button in the site configuration to help choose local or remote directories for standard log files. Added: Email me this report for end-users is now available on all reports. (Enterprise Only) Added: End-users can configure exclusions for directories on site imports. Added: Feature to email administrators if service is not available. (Enterprise Only) Added: Geographic Reporting for each continent on views, visits, hits, and bandwidth Added: Geographic Reporting for USA view on views, visits, hits, and bandwidth Added: Geographic Reporting for World View on views, visits, hits, and bandwidth Added: Support for Ensim Web Appliance Pro to allow full automation of adding/deleting of sites. (Requires extra download) Added: Support for the common Apache log file format. Added: Support for the common Iplanet log file format. Changed: Default style colors and slight design changes for better presentation. Changed: Graph styles have been changed for better presentation. Changed: Report items that show referral url's are now hyperlinked. Changed: Some report item names have changed due to end-user requests to be more descriptive. Changed: The welcome page statistics now follow the users filters. Fixed: Issue in SmarterStats web server when large data was being posted back. Fixed: Speed issue when FTP downloading log files over slow connections. Version 1.2.0 (2003-06-25) Added: More failsafes to secure the application Added: My Settings now contains an option "Auto Generate Reports" that will generate reports on the first hit, rather than requiring the user to click the [Generate Report] button. Added: New Report Items: Total Views by Month and Total Visits by Month. These were added by end-user request who found it hard to view the combined report with views/visits by month. This combined view Total Visits/Views by Month still exists. Added: Support for FTP downloads through proxies. For information how to do this, please ask support@smartertools.com. Changed: Edit site now allows the global administrator to change the primary admin of a site. Changed: Email reports are now sent in a method that more email clients can view them correctly. Changed: In email reports, any day-of-week query will now return at least 7 days of data in order to make the report more useful. Behavior when manually viewing these reports remains unchanged. Changed: Monthly reports now include data from the entire months of the date ranges they include. Changed: Report change: "Top Directories by Views/Visits" was changed to "Top Directories by Hits/Views." Changed: The "Total" column for some report items was removed. Changed: The installer is now more intuitive, and pops up "getting started" automatically after a successful install. Changed: User administration page has been updated to be easier to understand. Fixed: FTP downloads now correctly identify and use MS DOS format file listings. Fixed: FTP downloads would stall after downloading many large log files. Fixed: Inconsistent visit reporting on several reports due to sessions that have no valid hits. Fixed: Pop-up menus for the newest version of the Opera browser. Version 1.1.0 (2003-06-13) Added: "Raw Bandwidth" added to Welcome Page. The Welcome Page is the page viewed after logging in to view statistics. Raw Bandwidth is the actual bandwidth totaled from the log files imported ignoring any filters the end-user may have added. This is also available through Web Services so hosting companies or any company could bill their customers for their usage with very little programming. Added: Added Report Items: Overview of Views by Day and Overview of Visits by Day. These were added by end-user request who found it hard to view the combined report with views/visits by Day. This combined view Overview of Visits/Views by Day still exists. Added: Additional Web Services have been added to SmarterStats so that every aspect of Site additions, Server management can be automated to reduce overhead by administrators. Added: All SmarterStats versions come with a built in Web Server. SmarterStats now runs out of the box with very little requirements so ANYONE can use the SmarterStats product line. In addition, SmarterStats can still be configured to use IIS which will provide many benefits for larger installations, especially the SmarterStats Enterprise version. Added: FTP has now been added as a valid "Log Source" location. The system can now automatically download log files via FTP on intervals to keep statistics up to date for each site. "Log Source" options now include local file system, UNC, and now FTP. Added: Interactive Report IP Bandwidth By Image. This report will list IP addresses that are using the most bandwidth downloading images on your web site. Added: Interactive Report IP Bandwidth By Page. This report will list IP addresses that are using the most bandwidth downloading a page that you select. Added: Interactive Report Top Referrals by Image. This report will list the top referring URLs that have linked to an image you select Added: New Interactive Report "Top Query Strings by Page". This was a requested feature that would allow end-users to see the full query string, not just one of the items in the query string for a particular page. This is commonly used for shopping carts, order systems etc. Changed: All buttons in the web interface for both the System Administrator and the End-User have been replaced with Style buttons. Images are no longer used allowing administrators great control in making new styles by not having to manipulate numerous images. Changed: Drastically cleaner web interface. All tips, errors and pages have been modified using results from usability studies. Changed: Licensing and Pricing model has changed to have multiple versions to tailor to each company's size and requirements for sites/domains. Changed: Licensing interface significantly updated for both the Professional and the Enterprise versions. Changed: Moved from the .NET 1.0 framework to the NET 1.1 Framework increasing speed and decreasing memory utilization. Changed: Product names changed from SmarterStats Network to SmarterStats Enterprise and added the SmarterStats Professional versions for desktop users and small hosting companies. Changed: Separated Overview of Views by Day and Overview of Visits By Day into their own report items. Changed: SmarterStats uses 30% less memory when importing web sites. SmarterStats better allocates and releases memory when moving site to site on log importing. Changed: The "Add Site" option is now a wizard significantly simplifying the process of adding a site to SmarterStats Changed: The configuration pages for SmarterStats have been broken into multiple pages. This will significantly ease the configuration/administration of SmarterStats. Changed: The SmarterStats service now runs in a lower priority not affecting any other resources/applications on the machine it is running on. Changed: The web interface for administrators now shows local time Changed: The web interface for end-users now shows the time based on the time-zone they chose to see their statistics in. Fixed: Bug that cause limit of rows on email reports. Fixed: Visit bug that dealt with 400/404 errors Efficiency: 20% increase in overall speed of application. Report Item, Standard Reports and Interactive Reports benefit the most from this optimization. Version 1.0.0 (2003-03-10) None: Original Release