Oct 30, 2011

New features: #hashtags and intra-day updates for GA

We introduce today two improvements to Explainum:

#Hashtags
Putting a #hashtag inside an annotation text you make it appear on chart, with line pointing at the commented area. This is useful when you want to make some important milestones to be visible on chart all time. See the example below.


Only one (first) hashtag will be shown. Hash sign is removed when displayed in chart. Use underscore to make hashtag from two or more words, e.g. #hash_tags_introduced.

Intra-day updates for Google Analytics
Previously, we fetched data from Google Analytics only once per day, when it becomes final (stopped changing). We presumed that comments had to be tied to fixed datapoints. However this approach appeared not very useful -- delay sometimes was too long. So we now fetch data for Google Analytics "as it is", and update it later with final values. Update frequency can be adjusted in Update settings tab.