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Analytics and announcements
Know who read what you shipped, and put the important releases in front of the right people.
The numbers#
Open Changelog analytics in the dashboard. For the last 7, 30 or 90 days it shows, for every release:
- Page: views of the release page.
- Widget: times it was opened from inside your app.
- Emailed, opens, clicks and click rate: for the whole life of the release.
- Reactions and asked for (requests the release closed).
- Announcement results: how many saw, opened and dismissed it.
At the top, a few sentences say what stands out: the release that reached the most people, your email click rate and releases that were emailed but never clicked. Nothing is invented; with too little data it says nothing.
Email tracking#
Release emails to subscribers include a one-pixel image (opens) and a “Read it online” link that counts the click and then goes to the release page. Each link carries a random reader id, never an address, and a signature so the counts cannot be inflated. The link can only ever lead to the release itself.
Turn tracking off in Settings: emails then have no image and plain links. Plain-text email never carries tracking.
Announcements#
On a release, tick Announce it in your app. The widget shows it once to each visitor. Choose:
- Style: a popup beside the button, a banner across the top, or a centred modal.
- Pages: one path per line.
/billingis one page;/settings/*is that section and everything under it. Empty means everywhere. The widget notices page changes in single-page apps. - End date: after it, the announcement stops showing.
- Group: set under Who is this for?. A release aimed at a group such as
plan:prostays off the public changelog, feeds and subscriber email, and shows only to signed-in customers in the group (see Verified users).
Closing an announcement or opening it marks it seen in that browser. Escape closes a modal.
Export#
Export CSV on the analytics page downloads one row per release for the range you chose.