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  0.14.0-alpha Pre-Release

  uz1mani released this 2026-03-12 12:12:03 +00:00 | 633 commits to main since this release

  Improved

  • Smarter referrer attribution. Traffic that arrives without a referrer on a deep page (like a blog post) is now shown as "Shared Link" instead of "Direct." Real direct traffic — visitors who land on your homepage — still shows as "Direct." This gives you a much clearer picture of where your traffic actually comes from, since most unattributed deep-page visits are people clicking links shared in messaging apps or AI chatbots that strip the referrer header.
  • More in-app browsers detected. Pulse now recognises visits from WhatsApp, Telegram, Snapchat, Pinterest, Reddit, and Threads in-app browsers and attributes them correctly instead of lumping them into "Direct."
  • Dashboard blocks are now consistent in height. The Goals & Events and Scroll Depth panels now match the height of every other block on the dashboard.
  • Cleaner period picker. The date range dropdown now has visual separators between the rolling windows (Today, Last 7 days, Last 30 days), the calendar periods (This week, This month), and Custom — so it's easy to tell them apart at a glance.
  • New date range options. The period selector now includes "This week" (Monday to today) and "This month" (1st to today) alongside the existing rolling windows. Your selection is remembered between sessions.
  • Smarter comparison labels. The "vs …" label under each stat now matches the period you're viewing — "vs yesterday" for today, "vs last week" for this week, "vs last month" for this month, and "vs previous N days" for rolling windows.
  • Refreshed stat headers. The Unique Visitors, Total Pageviews, Bounce Rate, and Visit Duration stats at the top of the chart have a new look — uppercase labels, the percentage change shown inline next to the number, and an orange underline on whichever metric you're currently graphing.
  • Consistent green and red colors. The up/down percentage indicators now use the same green and red as the rest of the app, instead of slightly different shades.
  • Scroll Depth is now a radar chart. The Scroll Depth panel has been redesigned from a bar chart into a radar chart. The four scroll milestones (25%, 50%, 75%, 100%) are plotted as axes, with the filled shape showing how far visitors are getting through your pages at a glance.
  • Polished Goals & Events panel. The Goals & Events block on your dashboard got a visual refresh to match the style of the Pages, Referrers, and Locations panels. Counts are shown in a consistent style, and hovering any row reveals what percentage of total events that action accounts for — sliding in smoothly from the right.
  • Smarter bot protection. The security checks on shared dashboard access and organization settings now use action-specific tokens tied to each page. A token earned on one page can't be reused on another, making it harder for automated tools to bypass the captcha.
  • More resilient under Redis outages. If the caching layer goes down temporarily, Pulse now continues enforcing rate limits using an in-memory fallback instead of letting all traffic through unchecked. This prevents one infrastructure hiccup from snowballing into a bigger problem.
  • Better handling of traffic bursts. The system can now absorb 5x larger spikes of incoming events before applying backpressure. When events are dropped during extreme bursts, the system now tracks and logs exactly how many — so we can detect and respond to sustained overload before it affects your data.
  • Faster map and globe loading. The interactive 3D globe and dotted map in the Locations panel now only load when you scroll down to them, instead of rendering immediately on page load. This makes the initial dashboard load faster and saves battery on mobile devices.
  • Real-time updates work across all servers. If Pulse runs on multiple servers behind a load balancer, real-time visitor updates now stay in sync no matter which server you're connected to. Previously, you might miss live visitor changes if your connection landed on a different server than the one fetching data.
  • Lighter memory usage in long sessions. If you manage many sites and keep Pulse open for hours, the app now automatically clears out old cached data for sites you're no longer viewing. This keeps the tab responsive and prevents it from slowly using more and more memory over time.
  • Cleaner login storage. Temporary data left behind by abandoned sign-in attempts is now cleaned up automatically when the app loads. This prevents clutter from building up in your browser's storage over time.
  • Tidier annotation display. If you've added a lot of annotations to your chart, only the 20 most recent are shown as lines on the chart to keep it readable. A "+N more" label lets you know there are additional annotations.
  • Even faster dashboard loading. Your dashboard now fetches all its data — pages, locations, devices, referrers, performance, and goals — in a single request instead of seven separate ones. This means the entire dashboard appears at once rather than sections loading one by one, and puts much less strain on the server when many people are viewing their analytics at the same time.
  • Smoother real-time updates. The real-time visitors page now streams updates instantly from the server instead of checking for new data every few seconds. Visitors appear and disappear in real-time with no delay, and the page uses far fewer server resources — especially when many people are watching their live traffic at the same time.
  • More reliable under heavy load. Database queries now have automatic time limits so a single slow query can never lock up the system. If your dashboard or stats take too long to load, the request is gracefully cancelled instead of hanging forever — keeping everything responsive even during traffic spikes.
  • Smarter caching for dashboard data. Your dashboard stats are now cached for longer and shared more efficiently between requests. When the cache refreshes, only one request does the work while others wait for the result — so your dashboard loads consistently fast even when lots of people are viewing their analytics at the same time.
  • Faster filtered views. When you filter your dashboard by country, browser, page, or any other dimension, the results are now cached so repeat views load instantly. If multiple people apply the same filter, only one lookup runs and the result is shared — making filtered views much snappier under heavy use.
  • Faster entry and exit page stats. The queries that figure out which pages visitors land on and leave from have been rewritten to be much more efficient. Instead of sorting through every single event, they now look up just the first and last page per visit — so your Entry Pages and Exit Pages panels load noticeably faster, especially on high-traffic sites.
  • Faster goal stats. The Goals panel on your dashboard now loads faster, especially for sites with many custom events. Goal names are now looked up in a single step instead of one at a time.
  • Fairer performance under heavy traffic. One busy site can no longer slow down dashboards for everyone else. Each site now gets its own dedicated share of server resources, so your analytics stay fast and responsive even when other sites on the platform are experiencing traffic spikes.
  • Smoother exports. Exporting your data to PDF, Excel, or CSV no longer freezes the page. You'll see a clear "Exporting..." indicator while your file is being prepared, and the rest of the dashboard stays fully interactive.
  • Smoother "View All" popups. Opening the expanded view for Pages, Locations, Technology, Referrers, or Campaigns now scrolls smoothly even with hundreds of items. Only the rows you can see are rendered, so the popup opens instantly on any device.
  • Faster daily stats processing. Behind the scenes, the system that calculates your daily visitor stats now automatically scales up when there are more sites to process — so your dashboard numbers stay accurate and up to date even as the platform grows.
  • More reliable background processing. When multiple servers are running, long-running background tasks like daily stats calculations no longer risk being interrupted or duplicated. The system now keeps its coordination lock active for as long as the task is running.

  Added

  • Peak Hours heatmap. A new panel on your dashboard shows a 7×24 grid of when your visitors are most active — every day of the week against every hour of the day. Cells glow brighter in brand orange the busier that hour is. Hover any cell to see the exact pageview count. No other indie analytics tool surfaces this on the main dashboard.
  • Interactive 3D Globe. The Locations panel now has a "Globe" tab showing your visitor locations on a beautiful, interactive 3D globe. Drag to rotate, and orange markers highlight where your visitors are — sized by how much traffic each country sends. The globe slowly auto-rotates and adapts to light and dark mode.
  • Dotted world map. The "Map" tab in Locations now uses a sleek dotted map style instead of the old filled map. Country markers glow in brand orange and show a tooltip with the country name and pageview count when you hover.
  • Hide unknown locations. New toggle in Site Settings under Data & Privacy to hide "Unknown" entries from your Locations panel. When geographic data can't be determined for a visitor, it normally shows as "Unknown" in countries, cities, and regions. Turn this on to keep your location stats clean and only show resolved locations.
  • Chart annotations. Mark events on your dashboard timeline — like deploys, campaigns, or incidents — so you always know why traffic changed. Click the + button on the chart to add a note on any date. Annotations appear as colored markers on the chart: blue for deploys, green for campaigns, red for incidents. Hover to see the details. Team owners and admins can add, edit, and delete annotations; everyone else (including public dashboard viewers) can see them.

  Improved

  • Beautiful funnel visualization. Funnel reports now show a smooth, animated funnel shape instead of a plain bar chart. Each step flows into the next with curved segments, hover effects, and labels showing visitor counts and conversion percentages at a glance.
  • Tidier dashboard layout. The tab navigation (Dashboard, Uptime, Funnels, Settings) now sits above your site name and controls, keeping the tabs front and center.
  • Instant tab switching. Clicking between Dashboard, Uptime, Funnels, and Settings now feels instant — the tab bar stays in place while the page content loads below it, instead of the whole screen flashing with a loading skeleton.
  • Smooth tab animations. Switching tabs now plays a sliding indicator animation on the active tab and a subtle crossfade on the page content, making navigation feel polished and responsive.
  • Cleaner focus styles. Buttons, tabs, and links no longer show an orange outline when you click them — the focus ring now only appears when navigating with the keyboard, keeping the interface clean.
  • Faster dashboard loading. Switching to the Dashboard and Map tabs is now instant — no more brief lag or delay when navigating between sections.
  • Expand icon for data panels. Pages, Referrers, Locations, Technology, and Campaigns panels now show a small expand icon next to the title when there's more data to see, replacing the old "View all" button at the bottom.
  • Better expanded views. When you expand a data panel, the popup is now wider and taller so you can see more at once. Each row shows a percentage on hover, clicking a row filters your dashboard, and there's a search bar at the top to quickly find what you're looking for.
  • Smoother theme switching. Toggling between light and dark mode now plays a satisfying circular reveal animation that expands from the toggle button, instead of everything just flipping instantly.
  • Cleaner site navigation. Dashboard, Uptime, Funnels, and Settings now use an underline tab bar instead of floating buttons. The active section is highlighted with an orange underline, making it easy to see where you are and switch between views.
  • Consistent icon style. All dashboard icons now use a single, unified icon set for a cleaner look across Technology, Locations, Campaigns, and Referrers panels.

  Fixed

  • Correct Instagram attribution. Visits from Instagram's in-app browser were showing as "Facebook" because Instagram routes shared links through Facebook's URL redirector. Pulse now checks the User-Agent to detect the real source app.
  • Android and iOS now show up in OS stats. A bug in the User-Agent parsing order meant Android was always classified as "Linux" (because Android UAs contain "Linux") and iOS as "macOS" (because iPhone UAs contain "like Mac OS X"). Both are now detected correctly.
  • Charts no longer show tomorrow's date. The visitor chart on 7-day and 30-day views could display the next day with zero traffic, making it look like a sudden drop. The chart now ends on today.
  • Capitalized technology labels. Device types, browsers, and OS names in the Technology panel now display with a capital first letter (e.g. "Desktop" instead of "desktop").
  • Login no longer gets stuck after updates. If you happened to have Pulse open when a new version was deployed, logging back in could get stuck on a loading screen. The app now automatically refreshes itself to pick up the latest version.
  • City and region data is now accurate. Location data was incorrectly showing the CDN server's location (e.g. Paris, Villeurbanne) instead of the visitor's actual city. Fixed by reading the correct visitor IP header from Bunny CDN.
  • "Reset Data" now clears everything. Previously, resetting a site's data in Settings only removed pageviews and daily stats. Uptime check history, uptime daily stats, and cached dashboard data were left behind. All collected data is now properly cleared when you reset, while your site configuration, goals, funnels, and uptime monitors are kept.

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