Default Pepper
By Shaun Inman
The Default Pepper covers the basics. It is responsible for tracking the number of page views and unique visitors, where they are coming from and what they are looking at, as well as which search terms led them to your site. Included with Mint.
Release Notes
Latest version- Version 2.1
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- fixes for recent changes to Google and Bing image search urls
- Version 2.09
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- Added support for the newish Bing search engine
- Version 2.08
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- Added Secret Crush integration to the Most Recent tabs of the Referrers, Pages and Searches panes (the new search icon when clicked automatically scrolls from the current pane to the Crushes pane and initiate a search for the session of that particular referrer, page or search term)
- Version 2.07
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- Added a “Found” tab to the Searches pane which lists pages (ordered by hits), each with an accordian view listing all keywords that found the page
- Removed “From a” in “From a search for” in the Referrer pane (redundant, the column name is “From”)
- The “Recent” Pages now indicates when referred by a Bird Feeder-tracked seed
- Version 2.06
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- Added Entry tab to Pages pane (an Entry page is any page with an external referrer or no referrer at all)
- Updated
engines.phpto add Google advanced search recognition
- Version 2.05
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If the previous Watch/Unwatch favelets did not work with your subdomain hosted Mint be sure to to grab the updated favelets in your Mint installation’s Preferences.
- Removed
www.matching from Watch/Unwatch favelets (a hold-over from the old XSS workaround) that would prevent the favelets from working when Mint is installed on a subdomain - Added
www.prefix to Search.com inengines.phpto prevent interferring with other search engine matches (also movedtrimPrefixIndex()method call to after the search matching to accomodate this change) - Removed referrer info from Most Popular Pages tab because it was potentially misleading (the referrer is random due to a limitation of MySQL and does not reflect the most popular referrer to the page)
- Most Recent Pages with referrals from search engines now display the search terms as the link text instead of the referring url
- Removed
- Version 2.04
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If the previous Watch/Unwatch favelets did not work with your subdomain hosted Mint be sure to to grab the updated favelets in your Mint installation’s Preferences.
- Rewrote the Watched Pages JavaScript to get around subdomain XSS security limitations (this had the unintended but welcome side effect of adding IE support for the Watch/Unwatch favelets)
- Version 2.03
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- Updated
trimPrefixIndex()to work with https
- Updated
- Version 2.02
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- Fixed bug in the unique monthly visitor cookie expiration date that could cause monthly uniques to skyrocket in the last three days of March if you reside east of GMT
- Fixed bug where Watched page hit count differed from Most Popular page hit count for the same page (the result of applying the Ignored Referrers preference to the wrong database query)
- Updated replacement in
trimPrefixIndex()to prevent the valid domainwww.hr(and similar) from being reduced to the invalidhr - Added tooltip definitions to Visits pane Overview tab table heads, eg. Total => Total Page Views, Unique => Total Unique Visitors
- Version 2.01
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Requires (and included with) Mint 2.03
- Fixed a Firefox Watched Pages bug
- No longer counts uncookieable visitors as uniques
- Simplified search term regex
- Improved search referrer recognition
- Version 2.0
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No notes were provided with this release.
- Version 1.27
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- Compatible with Mint 1.2+