It’s been about 2 months since we started our way down a path of some major upgrades and performance improvements. Starting tonight, we will be rolling out those changes. This is Phase 1 of a 2 phase migration. This first phase makes improvements to the speed of the tracking script along with some data integrity issues and reporting speed. Phase 2 will be taking our reports out of BETA by offering a new and improved dashboard.

There are some important items to consider with this Phase 1 migration. ALL users will be somehow effected.

1. Our original tracking script snippet will no longer be supported starting tomorrow. We notified users about 6 months ago that we were in the process of phasing it out, and to move to the new one. So, please login to your accounts and upgrade if this effects you. We will be sending out an email to all users we think will be effected as well. The snippet looks like this:
<script src=”http://www.blvdstatus.com/js/initBlvdJS.php” type=”text/javascript”></script>

2. “IN Depth” reporting will be deprecated. However, we will provide a link to allow you to access old stats through the “In Depth” reports. Since we are currently working on a new dashboard, it doesn’t make sense to spend the time necessary to re-write the reporting to interface with our new database design.

3. Signups will be turned off for a little bit (hopefully only 1 week) to allow us to watch the effects of this move with our current users. We will open registration back up once things are more stable.

So what’s part of the phase 2 migration? We have some great ideas for reports, a new widget for bloggers, advanced tracking for our keyword vitals report and more. We are excited that we have come this far, and are confident this migration will give us the foundation we need to support some really neat reports and tools in the coming months.

Please contact us with any questions you might have.

Thanks for your understanding and support in making BLVD such a cool movement.

The BLVD Status Team