StatsRemote - Suggest new features & Try our software for free!

[J B]

Firstly, for the people that haven't tried StatsRemote, here's a free pass:

http://www.statsremote.com/clients/
User: 7daysfree
Pass: free7days

Will be valid until February 28.

We'd also like to know what kind of new things you'd like to see. We plan to release a major update later this year and we have many things on our to-do list already.

Whether you try our software for the first time or you've been using StatsRemote for some time already, we'd like to hear your suggestions

[Greenguy]

I've never even seen it & the reason is others have told me these are not options:

1 - the ability to select which hits/clicks totals are reported (raw, unique, 1st page, 2nd page, join, etc)

2 - a breakdown of sites in the program as far as hits, sales, money, etc.

2a - the ability to personalize each sponsor's paysites by category, so that it's easy to see which niche site is doing well when you decide to build a niche site or rotate your banners

I'm sure I'll have more once I try it out (which will be when I get my PC back from Jersey)

[J B]

Originally Posted by Greenie

1 - the ability to select which hits/clicks totals are reported (raw, unique, 1st page, 2nd page, join, etc)

We do it as follows: If a program provides raw and unique hits, we display them as raw and unique hits. If a program only provides unique hits we calculate the raw hits with a 1/1.2 ratio and the other way around. If a program provides 1st page and 2nd page uniques we only take the 1st page uniques and calculate the raw hits as mentioned above. I know this is not a perfect solution, especially because quite a few programs don't provide 1st page hits at all.

That's why we're thinking about adding a feature with which you can specify a percentage. This will be mainly for people who track their outgoing hits. If you then for example tracked 10,000 hits and the sponsor only counted 5,000 hits you could then just add '200%' to the stats properties of the program and StatsRemote would display 10,000 hits.

The problem is that as long as programs count hits differently there will never be a perfect solution.

Originally Posted by Greenie

2 - a breakdown of sites in the program as far as hits, sales, money, etc.

2a - the ability to personalize each sponsor's paysites by category, so that it's easy to see which niche site is doing well when you decide to build a niche site or rotate your banners

The problem is that we always need to think about the load our software produces on the stats servers. If hundreds of people check the same stats all the time, we really need to be careful how many queries the software makes. In many cases StatsRemote would need to query the stats for each paysite separately, so if a program has for example 50 paysites, StatsRemote would need to make at least 50 queries for each day.

We already had quite a few cases when stats servers crashed and/or couldn't handle the load our members produced... CCBill, Epoch and others blocked the IP's of our users... therefore we always need to be really careful.

[KG Gary]

Hi J B.
I'm trying the 7 day pass and it's looking like it's going to be very useful indeed - thanks! I'm very impressed.

Two quick questions if I may..... ( I've read the manual but it's late here)

"Today" "Yesterday" - are these times based on my local time or each sponsor's local time. I'm in the UK and those timezones can be a pain. No big deal, I'm just curious.

Will the details I've already entered be lost if I upgrade? I don't fancy entering everything twice - I'd rather stick with a handful of sponsors for the test period.

[J B]

Originally Posted by KG Gary

Hi J B.
I'm trying the 7 day pass and it's looking like it's going to be very useful indeed - thanks! I'm very impressed.

Thanks

Originally Posted by KG Gary

Two quick questions if I may..... ( I've read the manual but it's late here)

Sure

Originally Posted by KG Gary

"Today" "Yesterday" - are these times based on my local time or each sponsor's local time. I'm in the UK and those timezones can be a pain. No big deal, I'm just curious.

The default time zone of StatsRemote is PST, i.e. all tabs are based on PST. If you promote programs that use e.g. GMT you might want to display the 'Tomorrow' tab as well.

Originally Posted by KG Gary

Will the details I've already entered be lost if I upgrade? I don't fancy entering everything twice - I'd rather stick with a handful of sponsors for the test period.

Nothing will be lost when you upgrade. You just change your login and password in the software and everything will be still there.

[KG Gary]

Thanks for the reply. Much appreciated.
I'm hooked already and I'll be upgrading very soon.

[modF]

Unless I'm missing it, I'd really like to see sales ratios in the CCBill breakdown. I've got so many programs in there after all this time, it would really help to gauge things better. Typically I just sort the columns by $$ and do some quick math to check performance.

[J B]

Originally Posted by modF

Unless I'm missing it, I'd really like to see sales ratios in the CCBill breakdown. I've got so many programs in there after all this time, it would really help to gauge things better. Typically I just sort the columns by $$ and do some quick math to check performance.

It's in there... Sales/Raw...

[modF]

Originally Posted by J B

It's in there... Sales/Raw...

Mine doesn't sort when I click on the column header.

[J B]

Originally Posted by modF

Mine doesn't sort when I click on the column header.

Oops, you're right. I just checked and I can sort by any other column except this one. We will try to fix this for next week's update.

[J B]

Originally Posted by modF

Mine doesn't sort when I click on the column header.

We just released a StatsRemote update and the sorting works now.

[Greenguy]

Relevant posts have been moved/merged into this thread.

[Ms Naughty]

Can you add an option that sponsors pages open in Firefox, not just IE?

[J B]

Originally Posted by grandmascrotum

Can you add an option that sponsors pages open in Firefox, not just IE?

This is something we plan to do but I'm not sure yet if it will be possible. It's not only about opening the browser but mainly about automatic login from a different application. We will try our best

[Ramster]

I use StatsRemote and love it. I do not do the kind of calculating that Greenguy does but it is great for seeing what sales I am making each day and for throwing my weekly/monthly income into my Excel spreadsheet.

If I want to know what sites made me the sales at a sponsor then I go to their stats and take a peak. I like StatsRemote to see what I am making today and yesterday in general.

[J B]

Originally Posted by Ramster

I use StatsRemote and love it. I do not do the kind of calculating that Greenguy does but it is great for seeing what sales I am making each day and for throwing my weekly/monthly income into my Excel spreadsheet.

If I want to know what sites made me the sales at a sponsor then I go to their stats and take a peak. I like StatsRemote to see what I am making today and yesterday in general.