Burst Statistics changelog and version history

202613 releases

1. Burst Statistics 3.7.4Latest

   Oct 29, 2026
   • October 29th 2026
   • New: a Burst panel in the post editor shows how a post performs: pageviews, visitors, bounce rate, time on page, an engagement score and where visitors come from.
   • New: show the Green Web Foundation badge on your site with the Green hosting badge block or the [burst_green_hosting_badge] shortcode, once a green hosting check confirms your host runs on green energy. The badge is stored on your own site, so visitors load nothing from a third party.
   • New: essentials mode loads a minimal tracking script without scroll depth, goals and CO2 measurement, for the smallest possible footprint. Turn it on under Settings > General.
   • New: click a goal in the Goals block to filter the dashboard by that goal.
   • New: AI assistants connected through the WordPress MCP Adapter can now find and use the Burst abilities, also over HTTP, and can look up Burst settings and dashboard pages.
   • Improvement: the community comparison icon on the dashboard is shown as a pill next to the value, its tooltip names the group of similar websites you are compared with, and while the dashboard is filtered it is greyed out with an explanation, because a filtered view cannot be compared.
   • Improvement: the first community comparison arrives after a month of tracking, so a new site is compared with sites of its own size instead of the smallest group.
   • Improvement: the data sharing opt-in explains more clearly what you share and what you get in return.
   • Improvement: Burst stores its internal admin data in a few grouped database options instead of dozens of separate ones.
   • Improvement: database tables are only upgraded when their structure changed, and Burst shows a notice when a table upgrade could not be completed.
   • Security: rest api optimizer hardening, props Mateusz Będziński.
   • Fix: the insights chart shifted all days by one when the date range crossed a daylight saving time change: the first day showed 0 and every other day showed the numbers of the day before.
   • Fix: on hosts with a read-only plugin folder the articles block on the dashboard came back empty with a PHP warning.
   • Fix: some Burst abilities returned an error or rows without the page or referrer they belonged to when an AI assistant requested them.

2. Burst Statistics 3.7.3

   Oct 20, 2026
   • October 19th 2026
   • New: custom events. Send events from your site with burst.event() or the burst_event action and see them, with their properties, in the new Events block on the Engagement page. Turn it on under Settings > Features.
   • New: a Page weight block on the Engagement page shows how heavy your pages are and estimates the CO2 emission per pageview, with a carbon rating and an optional check whether your host runs on green energy.
   • New: a goal wizard that guides you step by step through creating a goal, with an element picker that lets you click the button or link to track on a preview of the page.
   • New: the ‘website searches’ block shows which result the SmartMatch Search plugin suggested for each search, how often it found a match and how often visitors clicked it, when SmartMatch is active.
   • New: Brevo integration, form submissions can be tracked as goals.
   • New: a Notifications settings page that brings alerts, email recipients and dashboard notices together, with a choice per alert which channel it uses.
   • Improvement: faster tracking on busy sites: fewer database lookups per hit and no redundant session updates.
   • Improvement: deleting archived statistics and cleaning up orphaned sessions now runs in batches, so it no longer times out or locks the tables on large sites.
   • Improvement: the visitor counts background build resumes where it stopped, so it completes on sites where a single run hits the time limit.
   • Improvement: the database uses less space: the columns kept after the 3.7.0 migration for rollback and a redundant index on the statistics table are removed.
   • Improvement: searches that are template injection probes, such as {{7*7}}, are recognized as spam and no longer show up in the Website searches block.
   • Improvement: the bounce rate and conversion rate filters that were marked as coming soon are removed from the filter list.
   • Improvement: the goal filter now shows the whole visit in which the goal was completed, not only the page it was completed on. A goal on a thank-you page now also shows the pages visitors saw before it, and a goal filter combined with a filter on the landing page, such as a UTM parameter, no longer…
   • Fix: the query time limit was ignored on MariaDB and for some queries on MySQL, so a slow statistics query could keep running for minutes.
   • Fix: on hosts that limit the length of database queries, such as WP Engine, visitor counts filtered by device, browser or operating system left out the visitors of busy days.
   • Fix: excluding a goal or URL parameter in the filters counted hits more than once, which inflated pageviews, or showed no data at all.
   • Fix: the per-page view showed 0 pageviews for a page after its slug had changed, while the Pages table did count them.
   • Fix: on hosts that limit the length of database queries, such as WP Engine, the Pages table showed empty urls for archive and pagination pages on sites with many of them.
   • Fix: the fix button on the task about anomalous visits from one visitor removed nothing. It now removes all hits of that visitor, also those from before the last day, in batches.
   • Fix: a fatal error on admin pages and in application password logins when another plugin checked a capability without a name, such as a menu page registered without a capability.
   • Fix: Site Health reported a plugin auto-update issue caused by the Burst update window.
   • Fix: clicking Continue twice in onboarding submitted the same step twice.
   • Fix: predefined goals showed an undefined title in the MainWP dashboard.
   • For the full changelog, see burst-statistics.com/docs/changelog.

3. Burst Statistics 3.7.2

   Sep 28, 2026

4. Burst Statistics 3.7.1

   Sep 28, 2026

5. Burst Statistics 3.7.0

   Sep 10, 2026

6. Burst Statistics 3.6.3

   Aug 19, 2026

7. Burst Statistics 3.6.2

   Jul 21, 2026

8. Burst Statistics 3.6.1

   Jul 15, 2026

9. Burst Statistics 3.6.0.1

   Jul 2, 2026

10. Burst Statistics 3.6.0

    Jul 1, 2026

11. Burst Statistics 3.5.1

    Jun 17, 2026

12. Burst Statistics 3.5.0

    Jun 3, 2026

13. Burst Statistics 3.4.3

    May 20, 2026