[April 18th, 11:00 AM PDT] Some users might have trouble accessing the Monitus Inspector in their Store Editor. One of our servers is currently undergoing maintenance and can not respond to the stores it normally hosts. Note that this does not affect the code that runs on these stores – your clients are not affected. We are terribly sorry about this, and will let you know as soon as the situation is back to normal. If you have any questions or ocmments, please contact us.

[April 18th, 1:00 PM PDT] Everything back to normal. Our sincere apologies for the trouble.

Do you really need another toolbar? Well, we believe so. If there is one thing that we believe in, it’s using data to make informed decisions. We use web analytics data to find out what works and what doesn’t on our sites and then take action. The trouble can sometimes be that we don’t have a clear process for optimization in the face of “too much data”.

With the Monitus Inspector we try to help with the process. The Monitus Inspector is a toolbar that pulls and displays data from your web analytics account right inside the Store Editor. You simply enable it in your Monitus Tools settings and it will then be visible when you work in the Store Editor.

Anyway, please see for yourself in this short 4 minute video:

This is a beta release, so we would welcome your feedback. Just a couple of notes. When you enable the Monitus Inspector it places a cookie on your browser, so if you delete cookies you’ll have to set it again. And Internet Explorer is not currently supported, so please use one of the other main browsers.

To get started, just login to your Monitus Tools account!

A new year, yet a new version of our tools! : )

This version is mainly a change in how we will be handling your subscription billing, so at first glance, not much exciting going on… However, we never want to leave you guys hanging so…

• Google Analytics Session Timeout: You can now control the length of sessions in your Monitus.net settings screen. Careful though, as this can greatly affect your data! (longer sessions means less visits, longer time on site, etc…)
• Delete Dropped Carts Emails: As a courtesy, we now allow you to set how often you want to receive the deleted carts email: daily (default, the current setting), weekly or monthly.

Of course, you knwo what that means, right? A light version now means a jam-packed version later! So stay tuned!

We have not posted a new version in a while – but it does not mean we were not actively working on one! Version 2.4 of our tools bring two very exciting new features:

The Monitus Toolbar for your Store Editor

Ever wondered how to use all that analytics data? Surely you’ve done some digging already, but extracting valuable, actionable data from that mountain of stats can be daunting. We have worked along with Rob Snell to bring some of his SEO techniques to you, right where you work, in the Store Editor. And using your Google Analytics data, we can now suggest a few ways to improve elements on your pages to, hopefully, increase conversions. This is powerful stuff – dynamite stuff, in fact – so don’t delay, have a look today!

Google Website Optimizer Experiment Wizard

We already launched the A/B Wizard a while back… But this is something else: we have worked very hard to bring you a wizard that makes it easier to create multivariate experiments. And the best part is, you only install our code once – then you can launch as many experiments as you want without re-publishing your store! Fast and easy – just like our other tools. Contact us for more information…

We will be going over each new tool in detail over the next few weeks, so please stay tuned!

We are in the process of installing a new version of our tools right now that requires some maintenance on the data. During the upgrade, your .monitus.net account will not be accessible. We will bring everything back to normal as soon as it finished.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Tuesday, December 28th, 4:39 PDT

The upgrade is now finished and all tools should be working normally. We will let you know, over the next few days, what new features we have added – we hope you will find they were worth the wait. Thank you for your patience!