Do More Faster
We’ve just released two improvements that will make WordPress.com even more efficient for you, leaving you more time to create content.
Site Stats
If you get a lot of traffic to your blog, your stats were sometimes slow to load. We know you like to look at your stats often, think about how all those seconds added up. Now, your main stats page loads all of its data in parallel:
This loads your whole stats page two to three times faster, which means less time spent staring at a spinner and more time for interacting with your readers and creating content.
Of course, if you’re a Jetpack user, you can partake in the speedy stats goodness on your WordPress.com stats page as well!
Toolbar Notifications
We’ve made your Toolbar Notifications faster to interact with also. Now you can navigate the Notifications menu from your keyboard.
Keys:
- n : Open/Close the notifications menu (make sure you aren’t currently typing in a text box first).
- j / k (or up and down arrows) : Navigate through your notifications
- r : Start replying to a comment notification.
- a : Approve/Unapprove a comment.
- s : Mark as Spam/Unspam a comment.
- t : Trash/Untrash a comment.
If you’re logged in, hit n now and try it out.
Aug 15th at 4:01 pm
Awesome Updates!
Aug 15th at 4:02 pm
thank you! It’s true, I am obsessive about my stats!
Aug 15th at 4:15 pm
Reblogged this on 12-inch pianist and commented:
Go team Data!
Aug 15th at 4:17 pm
Reblogged this on Egill and commented:
Team Data strikes again!
Aug 15th at 4:17 pm
Gr-r-reat on the stats, but I’m not so sure about the keys. Still, I’ll give ‘em a chance. Thanks for always making things easier for us!
Aug 15th at 4:38 pm
Love the shortcut keys… hope it works on my IPad too!
Aug 15th at 4:39 pm
But the spinner became my zen focal point. What now?
Thank you for these updates — you really are improving the lives of bloggers everywhere…
Aug 15th at 4:39 pm
Great update….i wish i had more traffic to notice the difference though, lol. ::cough::freshlypressed:cough
I like the keyboard shortcuts though.
I’ve noticed an issue with the iPhone app though when accessing stats…says jetpack password is bad
Aug 15th at 4:55 pm
Are you using the latest version of the iPhone app? If you are still having problems please contact support.wordpress.com and we’ll get it straightened out.
Aug 16th at 12:08 pm
Yes, sir. I’m using the latest iPhone app. I’ll contact them, thanks!
Aug 15th at 5:00 pm
omg It really works! (kinda skeptical huh?)
Aug 15th at 5:12 pm
Great update! Thanks for making WordPress better and better!
Aug 15th at 5:37 pm
Neat treat!
Aug 15th at 5:37 pm
Thanks for so much for these two improvements. I did not have a slow stats loading page issue but know others did have that issue. The Toolbar Notifications shortcuts are going to be very useful timesavers that I will be using lots.
Aug 15th at 6:04 pm
Anything for more speed. Gread job. Love WordPress.
Aug 15th at 6:07 pm
thank you greg!
Aug 15th at 6:08 pm
Really awesome updates and improvement s
Aug 15th at 6:17 pm
As a hardcore vi/vim user, love the j-k up-down and other one letter commands! Thanks! — Aggie
Aug 15th at 6:32 pm
These vi-ish shortcuts brought to you by code written in emacs.
I just can’t resist a vi/emacs debate, though in truth I’ve been known to dip into vi as well. Cheers!
Aug 16th at 2:39 pm
You brought a smile to my face… now I’m wondering which shell you prefer
and remembering happy times… All the best — Aggie
Aug 15th at 6:38 pm
I have a slow connection at home, so any speed improvements are definitely welcome!
Aug 15th at 7:13 pm
Awesome! Makes stats even better.
Aug 15th at 7:15 pm
Love the updates and improvements!
Aug 15th at 7:20 pm
Wow!
Aug 15th at 7:26 pm
Cool additions! I have noticed in the past that the stats can take a while to load, so this is great!
Aug 15th at 7:31 pm
Very good.
Aug 15th at 7:31 pm
very good
Aug 15th at 8:20 pm
thanks for the info
Aug 15th at 8:37 pm
This is good news for me as well. About stats. Can you people shate what you consider is good enough for daily traffic.
Aug 15th at 8:52 pm
YAY! Simpler AND faster…an unbeatable combination. Thanks.
Aug 15th at 9:12 pm
LOVE THIS! Thanks WordPress for streamlining and the short cuts.
Aug 15th at 9:17 pm
I love the new tabs for stats, notifications, etc. It makes it so easy!
Aug 15th at 9:36 pm
My previous comment
Now it is working.
Aug 15th at 9:38 pm
Thanks for the report. What browser are you using, and what page were you on?
Aug 15th at 9:40 pm
Firefox, Win XP,
http://2ndlook.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/policing-america-the-grip-on-the-population-tightens-visibly-sometimes-even-invisibly/#comment-8254
Aug 16th at 9:03 pm
There was a bug that was a little tricky to fix, but should be all taken care of now. Thanks for the help!
Aug 16th at 9:12 pm
Ahh! I am indeed relieved.
For some time, I was beginning to doubt, if my feedback was just nitpicking, because it seemed to be working later.
Glad to be of help!
I am repeating myself here – but WordPress rocks. More power to you guys.
I only feel bad that people like Storify and Pinterest seem to have tweaked the WordPress techno-foundation and making mega bucks.
I hope you guys wont let WordPress become the Xerox PARC story.
Aug 16th at 9:21 pm
Thanks for your kind words.
WordPress is now powering 16.7% of the web, so I think we are doing pretty well.
Pinterest and Storify are both good complementary services that end up driving a lot of traffic to WordPress sites.
Aug 16th at 9:25 pm
Awesome! Cool!
You guys deserve all the success you are getting – and more!
Going by the message that appears when WordPress goes down, Matt must have done something!
Presumably, Matt must be doing something right!
Aug 15th at 9:47 pm
Like the ease of it. I’m seeing some issues with images lining up in it, but that could just be because I’m using a machine with IE8 as the browser. It probably is better with IE9 or Chrome.
Aug 15th at 10:33 pm
Yeah, we do our best to support old browsers, but sometimes there are challenges with doing so. We don’t like to delay new features till tomorrow, when most of our users could be using them today. We’ll take a look at cleaning IE8 up. Thanks.
Can I gently suggest that you http://browsehappy.com/
Aug 15th at 9:47 pm
Another lovely enhancement – thanks team.
Aug 15th at 10:33 pm
Reblogged this on My view on e-World and commented:
WordPress team worked on parallel data download for WordPress.com stats, its great thing to hear. Before it needed 10-20s just to start displaying stats, now its a lot faster.
This fix is also speeding up JetPack stats for WordPress.org sites.
Also for hard core users there are new keyboard Toolbar Notification shortcuts.
Aug 15th at 10:45 pm
Me I do not think much about stats…………but found this interesting anyway……………
Aug 15th at 11:12 pm
Still waiting for bulk uploading of images, after all this time. The one thing that makes WordPress a MASSIVE pain in the ass.
Aug 16th at 9:02 pm
The image uploader does support bulk uploading, see http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/.
Admittedly that user interface could use some improvements, and the Core WordPress team is working on that for 3.5. For some initial details see here: http://make.wordpress.org/ui/2012/07/30/media-wireframes/
Patches always welcome.
Aug 15th at 11:18 pm
Interestingly enough, I have had traffic to one of my blogs (weinstein365) that isn’t showing up. I just checked and it says I’ve had 4 visits today, yet I’ve had at least a dozen people email me, saying they like my post today. It’s certainly not a burning issue, but seeing as how you’ve sent out an email regarding improvements to ‘stats’, this feels like the right time to bring this up. Thanks.
Aug 16th at 8:51 pm
This is often a point of confusion. Users who are logged in are now able to like your post from the WordPress.com Reader. So the number of likes can sometimes exceed the number of visitors. But by putting your posts in front of more people we hope to increase your subscribers.
Aug 16th at 9:09 pm
Thanks for getting back to me. Have a good evening.
Aug 15th at 11:55 pm
Thanks! Sure this will add more value.
Aug 15th at 11:57 pm
Thanks for enhancement!
Aug 16th at 12:02 am
Nope not faster…I guess there is no hope for dial up internet users…always snail’s pace regardless of innovations.
Aug 16th at 2:09 am
thanks you!!
Aug 16th at 2:12 am
Very nice enhancements. Would be nicer if we can optionally show Page Views count on individual posts via maybe a social sharing button.
Aug 16th at 2:47 am
You guys are amazing – you just never rest!
Aug 16th at 3:12 am
Please request your writers to write in English. “Do more faster” is English that even a kindergarten student would be ashamed of.
� Tarit Chakraborty
Aug 16th at 3:20 am
Thanks for the keyboard short cuts.
Aug 16th at 3:29 am
love updates
Aug 16th at 4:40 am
Thank for this information
Aug 16th at 5:05 am
Good job team, nicely done guys!
Aug 16th at 5:19 am
This updates are very useful for us. I would like to say thanks for this great job.
Aug 16th at 6:45 am
Since this update, i cannot access to star from my iphone
Aug 16th at 8:45 pm
Are you having problems accessing stats from your iPhone? None of these updates should have affected access to your stats. Can you tell me exactly how you are trying to get to your stats?
Aug 16th at 6:51 am
Cool, yay!
Love!
Aug 16th at 7:21 am
thanks
Aug 16th at 7:53 am
You guys rock! Thanks a lotlotlot!!
Aug 16th at 9:01 am
The ‘Toolbar Notifications’ update is great! Thanks!
Aug 16th at 9:32 am
Wow, love these features. An additional count-in to the existing round of goodies.
Thanks for updates.
Aug 16th at 9:32 am
I like the view of new stats..:)
Aug 16th at 10:41 am
Reblogged this on Paolo Belcastro and commented:
Quicker stats, notification shortcuts, is it Christmas already?
Aug 16th at 12:04 pm
UNIX lives!!! Glad to see it.
Aug 16th at 12:44 pm
coincidental with this change, notifications no longer seem to recognise me as the author and now includes me in the alerts when I make replies to comments – does not happen if I reply from dashboard. Any clues as to why?
Aug 16th at 8:40 pm
This change should not have affected how the comment notifications get generated. A toolbar comment notification is sent whenever someone responds to a post you wrote, or someone responds to a comment you posted.
Aug 16th at 3:57 pm
Awesome post! Congratulations! :
Aug 16th at 6:05 pm
very good
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Aug 16th at 10:54 pm
Great post!
Aug 17th at 2:23 am
Ahhh, the site stats was a great improvement! It was painful to wait for it to load. Nice work on improving the speed on that one. I tried the notifications menu and love how it opens right up. Nice work on that one as well!
Aug 17th at 6:51 am
Love that sats page and yes you are right we do like to check our stats.
Aug 17th at 11:26 am
amazing update about trafficking the blogs ..
Aug 17th at 11:26 am
thanks for updating!!!
Aug 17th at 12:26 pm
It’s not often you see a focus on functionality and performance instead of just aesthetics these days. Great work!
Aug 17th at 3:33 pm
great.
Aug 17th at 8:26 pm
Sounds good to me. I get frustrated waiting for that little wheel to stop spinning. Thanks
Aug 18th at 2:53 pm
thank you.
Aug 18th at 4:55 pm
Great update!
Aug 19th at 6:28 pm
that ‘n’ trick was cool – thanks!
Aug 19th at 8:10 pm
A faster way, to a blogger’s delight, is found in efficiently coping, with daily activities.
I belief, the WordPress.com updates, have stepped-up our ways of interaction, on-the-blog, and in achieving the preliminary objectives, of the social platform.
Thanks, for your timely intervention.
Aug 21st at 11:47 pm
The world is into doing everything faster…but does “faster” mean “better”? Something we should all think about!
Aug 22nd at 4:34 am
Works great! Thanks!
Aug 23rd at 2:58 am
Love the shortcut keys… hope it works on my IPad too!
Aug 23rd at 4:34 pm
Noticed a problem on the Android app. The stats don’t load half the time or if they do, they take a long time. Maybe you could update the Symbian app. That’s much better than the Android app. Symbian phones are better too.
But other than that, this is great news!
Aug 24th at 5:21 pm
Sorry to hear you’re having trouble loading stats. If the problems persist, I’d recommend you post on the WordPress for Android forums so we can help figure it out: android.forums.wordpress.org.
Aug 23rd at 11:27 pm
This is great news!
Aug 24th at 12:42 am
That works really well! I wish i had known about the new way of navigation sooner. I like this update.
-Paul
Aug 24th at 5:51 am
wordpress going better and better
love it !
Aug 27th at 9:36 pm
the famous stats: always numbers and a new obsession
Aug 28th at 11:29 pm
COOL
Aug 29th at 12:26 am
that was good
Aug 29th at 12:11 pm
Amazing!!!