Burst Statistics – Datenschutzfreundliche Analysen für WordPress

Changelog

3.0.0

• November 11th 2025
• Fix: compability with unknown plugin, allowing null value in get_timerange_dropdown() on WooCommerce products overview, props @tegid
• Fix: do not treat www and non www domains as different domains, when detecting multiple domains setup.
• Fix: remove obsolete slash in loading of goals script, which on some setups causes it to get blocked, props @jhndkrvzc
• Fix: top bar count did not show the ‚k‘ for thousands, ‚M‘ for millions, etc, only showing 1, instead of 1k.
• New: increase minimal required versions for PHP to 8.0, for WordPress to 6.4

2.2.9.3

• Fix: some css styling fixed.

2.2.9.2

• Improvement: css change to ensure Burst icon aligned correctly in menu
• Improvement: remove obsolete log line
• Improvement: remove upgrader_process_complete hook to handle upgrades
• Improvement: removed some obsolete files

2.2.9.1

• Improvement: Date range selection option in pages and posts overview screen options.
• Fix: issue in onboarding wizard data storing.

2.2.9

• Fix: move the code directory from /src to /includes, because otherwise javascript files are not scanned for translations by WordPress

2.2.8

• New: improved library for cookieless tracking.
• New: entry/exit pages filter
• Improvement: added fallback database upgrade mechanism in case the normal upgrade didn’t fire.
• Improvement: dismissal of PHP notice.

2.2.7

• New: Detailed live visitors tab
• Improvement: responsiveness on mobile, restored 1280px breakpoint
• Improvement: suspicious data (over 1000 visits from 1 user) is now only detected and the admin notified, not automatically removed.
• Fix: on multisite with Burst network activated, the endpoint incorrectly did not detect Burst as active, which prevents tracking from occuring.

2.2.6.1

• Fix: remove false positive notice about missing tables.

2.2.6

• Improvement: pass post_id to javascript using a data attribute in the body element, to improve accuracy of the page specific pageviews.
• Improvement: dropped usage of the imprecise post_meta pageviews metric entirely.
• Improvement: made it possible to track hook goals with cookieless tracking.
• Improvement: migrated all remaining css to tailwind css.
• Fix: Group by on parameters overview should group by combination of parameter and value.

2.2.5

• Fix: incorrect calculation of bounces and bounce rate.
• Fix: upgrade link on archiving not working.

2.2.4

• New: debug information in Site Health Info.
• New: wildcard filtering on page URL in advanced filters, by adding an asterisk behind your string.
• Improvement: check in endpoint if Burst is still active, for situations where javascript is still active, due to caching, but plugin not active.
• Improvement: catch incorrect data structure on hit, for situations where previous javascript is still active due to caching.
• Improvement: larger selection of Tips & Tricks retrieved from website, showing a variety of different and more up to date articles.
• Improvement: performance optimizations.
• Fix: when statistics table is empty, the summary table upgrade could fail on an empty value for «first visit», props @programmin.
• Fix: catch edge case where a theme passes a null value to the «the_content» filter (which is incorrect behaviour). props @sllew.
• Fix: incorrect bounce calculation, resulting in too high bounces and bounce rates.

2.2.3

• Improvement: allow ipv6 addresses
• Improvement: prevent false positives on ajax fallback notice
• Improvement: rest optimizer improvements

2.2.2

• New: Extensive range of filter options to easily track what campaigns are delivering your conversions!
• Improvement: Added CORS support to tracking endpoint to allow cross-origin requests via fetch/sendBeacon. props Alex
• Improvement: automatic cleanup of anomalous numbers of visits, when one visitor results in over 1000 page views in 24 hours (customizable with filters).
• Improvement: remove duplicate non necessary json_encode from endpoint
• Improvement: Add logging option to check error responses on the endpoint or rest api, when BURST_DEBUG and WP_DEBUG are set to true.
• Fix: when the weekly statistics report was sent on another day than the default day, date range calculation could retrieve the wrong range. props Pieter
• Fix: Referrer filter not working. props @lekkerbezig
• Fix: allow for alternative WordPress location, e.g. in subfolder ‚wp‘.

2.2.1

• Fix: usage of wrong key prevented upgrade from completing

2.2.0

• Neu: erweiterte Auswahl an Shortcodes.
• Neu: Vorschau des Zielelements, um zu überprüfen, ob das ausgewählte Element auf der Seite existiert.
• Verbesserung: Alle Hooks vom Konstruktor in die Init-Methode verschoben.
• Verbesserung: Entfernen der bounce=0-Bedingungen bei der Ziel-Filterung
• Behebung: Integrationen laden nicht aufgrund einer Pfadänderung in Version 2.0.
• Behebung: Erster Besuch zählte doppelt für Besucher beim cookielosen Tracking, wenn sie nach einem Monat zurückkamen.
• Korrektur: Multisite-Weiterleitung zum Netzwerk, sollte aber zur Hauptseite weiterleiten, Dank an @muttleydosomething

2.1.0

• Behebung: Typeninkongruenz, wenn der Browser-Schlüssel nicht in den User-Agent-Daten vorhanden ist.
• Neu: Einrichtungsassistent für neue Benutzer.

2.0.9

• Behoben: Falsche «beste Gerät»-Konversionsrate im Zielblock.
• Behoben: Bei der Ausführung der Aufgabenvalidierung verursachte der Aufruf der Zusammenfassungswarnung aufgrund eines falschen Aufrufs einen Fehler.
• Verbesserung: Erlaube Nullwert in admin_enqueue_scripts, um zu verhindern, dass Visual Composer einen schwerwiegenden Fehler verursacht.
• Verbesserung: Der Wert von plugin_url wurde geändert, um site_url anstelle von get_plugin_url() zu verwenden, um gemischte Inhalte zu vermeiden.

2.0.8

• Behoben: Filtern nach Referrer funktioniert nicht.
• Behoben: Das Dashboard-Untermenü funktionierte nur, wenn die Burst-Einstellungsseite bereits geladen war.

2.0.7

• Behebung: In einigen Fällen konnte eine PHP-Warnung am Endpunkt angezeigt werden.
• Verbesserung: Option für Administratoren entfernen, einen E-Mail-Bericht zu senden, indem eine Abfragevariable hinzugefügt wird.
• Verbesserung: Effizienz der Funktion burst_find_wordpress_base_path() verbessert.

2.0.6

• Verbesserung: Optimiertes Datenbank-Upgrade.
• Neu: Plugin neu geschrieben für noch bessere Leistung
• Neu: Erweiterter Umfang automatisierter Tests zur Erhöhung der Zuverlässigkeit