Livestats

Do I have any Livestats experts reading?

The host for this site recently updated to Livestats XSP 8.0. I can't remember what the previous version was, but when I used to log in it gave me a nice little chart showing how many visitors I'd had for each day in that week. It was perfect, I could find out everything I wanted to know. I clicked Visitors, it told me how many visitors I'd had that week, Referrals told me where the visitors came from. I was happy.

Lately they started showing me a lot of completely useless trend analysis and averages information. I really didn't care how many visitors Livestats thought I was going to get for the next 7 days, I just wanted to know how many visitors there were in the last 7. But it was innocuous, I could ignore it. I was still happy.

This latest update changed all that. I'm sure the developers are happy, it looks a lot prettier, it gives me so much more information, there are more options in the new tree style menu. It's just that it's completely confusing, rather than show me the last 7 days, it shows me the last few "Like Days", eg, if I look at wednesday I see it compared to the last few wednesdays. The scope of the default graphs have changed too, now I see a big stupid graph by month, a slightly more useful one by week, and a third by day. But they all seem to show the data since time began, so the columns on the day graph are tiny. Not to mention that it seems to take a lot longer to prepare the page, probably due to all the extra information. I don't want to spend too much time looking at my stats, I just like to see roughly what's been going on over the last few days. With the old version I could log in and check 3 or 4 different pages and I would know exactly what was going on... now I've tried a bunch of the new options, they all take longer to load, and they're all harder to read, and I no longer have any idea what's been happening on my site.

I don't want to whine too much, I'm sure someone out there needs all the new data, I just want to know how to get a nice simple summary of the week for Visitors, Page Views, Search Engine spiders, and Referrals. Just like I used to have... when I was happy... before they improved it.

Basically, if anyone reading knows anything at all about Livestats I'd love to hear from you... and if you know how to disable the "Like Days" (maybe even change it to last few days?) feature, and change the scope of the graphs in the top panel, you'll make me a very happy man.