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.
- August 15, 2012
- Notifications, Stats
WordPress.com News 
Awesome Updates!
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thank you! It’s true, I am obsessive about my stats!
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Reblogged this on 12-inch pianist and commented:
Go team Data!
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Reblogged this on Egill and commented:
Team Data strikes again!
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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!
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Love the shortcut keys… hope it works on my IPad too!
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But the spinner became my zen focal point. What now? 😉
Thank you for these updates — you really are improving the lives of bloggers everywhere…
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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
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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.
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Yes, sir. I’m using the latest iPhone app. I’ll contact them, thanks!
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omg It really works! (kinda skeptical huh?)
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Great update! Thanks for making WordPress better and better!
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Neat treat!
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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.
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Anything for more speed. Gread job. Love WordPress. 🙂
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thank you greg!
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Really awesome updates and improvement s
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As a hardcore vi/vim user, love the j-k up-down and other one letter commands! Thanks! — Aggie
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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!
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You brought a smile to my face… now I’m wondering which shell you prefer 😉 and remembering happy times… All the best — Aggie
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I have a slow connection at home, so any speed improvements are definitely welcome!
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Awesome! Makes stats even better.
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Love the updates and improvements!
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Wow!
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Cool additions! I have noticed in the past that the stats can take a while to load, so this is great! 🙂
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Very good. 🙂
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very good
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thanks for the info
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This is good news for me as well. About stats. Can you people shate what you consider is good enough for daily traffic.
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YAY! Simpler AND faster…an unbeatable combination. Thanks.
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LOVE THIS! Thanks WordPress for streamlining and the short cuts. 🙂
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I love the new tabs for stats, notifications, etc. It makes it so easy!
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My previous comment
Now it is working.
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Thanks for the report. What browser are you using, and what page were you on?
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Firefox, Win XP,
http://2ndlook.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/policing-america-the-grip-on-the-population-tightens-visibly-sometimes-even-invisibly/#comment-8254
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There was a bug that was a little tricky to fix, but should be all taken care of now. Thanks for the help!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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/ 🙂
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Another lovely enhancement – thanks team.
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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.
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Me I do not think much about stats…………but found this interesting anyway……………
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Still waiting for bulk uploading of images, after all this time. The one thing that makes WordPress a MASSIVE pain in the ass.
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The image uploader does support bulk uploading, see https://wordpress.com/support/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. 🙂
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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.
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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.
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Thanks for getting back to me. Have a good evening.
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Thanks! Sure this will add more value.
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Thanks for enhancement!
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Nope not faster…I guess there is no hope for dial up internet users…always snail’s pace regardless of innovations.
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thanks you!!
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Very nice enhancements. Would be nicer if we can optionally show Page Views count on individual posts via maybe a social sharing button.
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You guys are amazing – you just never rest!
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Please request your writers to write in English. “Do more faster” is English that even a kindergarten student would be ashamed of.
� Tarit Chakraborty
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Thanks for the keyboard short cuts.
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love updates
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Thank for this information
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Good job team, nicely done guys!
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This updates are very useful for us. I would like to say thanks for this great job.
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Since this update, i cannot access to star from my iphone
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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?
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Cool, yay!
Love! 🙂
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thanks
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You guys rock! Thanks a lotlotlot!! 🙂
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The ‘Toolbar Notifications’ update is great! Thanks!
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Wow, love these features. An additional count-in to the existing round of goodies.
Thanks for updates.
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I like the view of new stats..:)
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Reblogged this on Paolo Belcastro and commented:
Quicker stats, notification shortcuts, is it Christmas already?
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UNIX lives!!! Glad to see it.
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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?
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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.
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Awesome post! Congratulations! :
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very good
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Great post!
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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! 🙂
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Love that sats page and yes you are right we do like to check our stats. 🙂
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amazing update about trafficking the blogs ..
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thanks for updating!!!
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It’s not often you see a focus on functionality and performance instead of just aesthetics these days. Great work!
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great.
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Sounds good to me. I get frustrated waiting for that little wheel to stop spinning. Thanks
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thank you.
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Great update!
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that ‘n’ trick was cool – thanks!
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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.
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The world is into doing everything faster…but does “faster” mean “better”? Something we should all think about!
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Works great! Thanks!
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Love the shortcut keys… hope it works on my IPad too!
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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!
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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.
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This is great news!
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That works really well! I wish i had known about the new way of navigation sooner. I like this update.
-Paul
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wordpress going better and better 🙂 love it !
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the famous stats: always numbers and a new obsession
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COOL
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that was good
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Amazing!!!
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