July 2026 Staging environments & new website overview
Feature: Staging environments
Test new tracking events without distorting your real data. Every website can now have its own staging environment – perfect for trying out events, integrations, or your CMP setup risk-free before they go live. Switching between production and staging happens directly in the website switcher, clearly indicated with a hint in the respective view. Your production data stays completely untouched. Learn how to set up staging for your website in the staging guide.Feature: New website overview
With multiple websites, you no longer lose track. At the top, two key metrics – total visitors and total views – show the trend across all your websites at a glance. Below, all sites are listed compactly and sortable by rising or falling trend, so you can instantly see which website is growing or declining – and jump directly to it with a single click.June 2026 Google Search Console, Journey Analysis & Impact via MCP
Feature: Impact now measures Web Vitals & search performance
Change Impact Analysis takes the decisive step further. You set an impact marker on a release, relaunch, or campaign launch and now see its effect not just on traffic and conversions, but also on your Core Web Vitals and your Google search performance. Did the new hero image hurt your LCP? Did impressions and average position rise after the content update? Before/after comparison per marker, without having to keep three tools open side by side.Feature: Google Search Console integration
Clicks, impressions, CTR, and average position right inside bchic – no more switching over to Search Console. The dashboard shows all four core metrics as a toggleable time series with previous-period comparison. Filters let you narrow the data down precisely, for example to organic Google traffic. The data is therefore available for reports, impact markers, and MCP.Feature: Impact data & GSC now available via MCP
The most important step for our website intelligence vision: AI assistants can now retrieve both impact effect data and Search Console data through the MCP server. Ask directly in chat “How did last week’s relaunch affect rankings?” or “Which markers hurt Web Vitals?” – and get the answer based on your real data. This turns the AI from a reporting add-on into an analyst that knows the full context of what your changes caused.Feature: Events visible in journey analysis
Path analysis now shows not just the page transitions, but also the events triggered along the way – directly and visually within the path. At a glance you can see where in the journey an event is triggered (e.g. an outbound link click on a PDF download or an OpenTable booking) and how often. Click a step to open the event details with the specific target URLs and their frequency. The step-by-step flow with drop-off rates, average time on page, and loop detection stays in place, and configurations can still be saved as a saved journey and reused.Feature: Country map
Geographic distribution at a glance. The countries view can now be toggled between a list and an interactive world map – color intensity reflects the share of visitors, with zoom and reset. Expand it to open the full-screen view: map and country list with visitor count, trend, and flags side by side, including search and pagination for the complete list of countries.Feature: Browsers, OS & versions
A detailed technical breakdown of your visitors. Toggle between browser and OS view, each with visitor count and trend. Drill down to the specific versions (e.g. iOS 26.5.0 vs. 18.7.x) – new versions are marked with a “New” badge, so you can immediately spot migration waves and compatibility-critical legacy versions.Feature: Roles & permissions
Granular permission management per role. Four roles – Account Owner, Manager, Member, and Viewer – can be configured with individual permissions: Administration, Team Editing, Website Editing, and Website Viewing. You can also control per role whether MCP, Google Search Console, and sidebar customization may be used. Toggle between the role overview and the detailed matrix.Feature: Sidebar Customizer
Configure the default navigation per role. Groups and items can be sorted, nested, renamed, and removed via drag-and-drop, with a live preview. A toggle lets you allow users of a role to customize their own sidebar – or set a fixed default configuration.Improved: Global path filter
The path filter now applies globally across all reports. Once narrowed to a page or section, the context is preserved across Dashboard, Journeys, Events, and audience reports.Improved: Search & filters with REGEX
A new “All” text search that filters across all fields instead of just a single dimension. You can also enable a REGEX operator per filter – for precise matches on URL patterns, campaign names, or event values.April 2026 Consent Segmentation, Activity Timeline & Compliance Suite
The biggest update yet for the Business Intelligence section. Three new dashboards, a completely revamped Script Editor and deeper insight into data quality.Feature: Consent Segmentation Dashboard
Compare visitors with and without cookie consent at a glance. The new dashboard shows the consent rate as a donut chart, consent distribution over time and a percentile analysis of the time to accept (P50 through P99). The dimensions table lets you break down consent rates by country, device, browser, OS, source and channel. Requires a supported CMP (Cookiebot, OneTrust, Usercentrics or IAB TCF v2) or manual activation viadata-track-consent="true" in the tracking script.
Feature: Activity Timeline
Discover when your visitors are active. The dashboard shows peak hour, peak day and the weekday/weekend split as KPI cards. Hourly and weekly distributions are available as a toggleable bar chart with previous period comparison. A weekly heatmap combines both dimensions for quick pattern recognition. The new conversion filter lets you narrow the view to sessions with specific conversion events.Feature: Web Vitals Dashboard
Core Web Vitals directly in bchic. Track LCP, FID, CLS and other performance metrics for your website without external tools. Can be enabled via the Script Editor under “Configure Advanced Analytics”.Feature: Compliance Suite & URL Anonymization
New compliance page with an overview of all privacy-related settings. URL anonymization automatically strips sensitive query parameters and personal data from captured URLs before they are stored.Improved: Script Editor (Configure Advanced Analytics)
New central configuration page for advanced tracking options. Web Vitals, Consent Segmentation, third-party system integration and privacy settings can each be toggled individually without editing the tracking script manually.Improved: Filters & Segmentation
Filters now display active values and operators directly in the filter tags bar. The calculation for reader, dropper and bot segments has been reworked. A newfilterExcludeBots parameter allows targeted exclusion of bot traffic.
Improved: MCP Knowledge System
The MCP server automatically learns from interactions and stores website-specific knowledge via awithKnowledge() wrapper. AI assistants receive better context on follow-up questions without needing to re-query the data.
March 2026 New Integrations & Authentication
More connectivity: MCP support and social login make bchic more flexible and accessible.Feature: MCP Integration
bchic now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP). AI assistants like Claude can access your analytics data directly — GDPR-compliant and without any data export.Feature: Google & Microsoft Login
Existing accounts can now sign in via Google or Microsoft. Requirement: the email address of your Google or Microsoft account must match your bchic account email.Status: Live
All three features are now available for all users.Late February 2026 Change Impact Analysis (CIA)
The first step towards a BI platform. CIA quantifies the impact of changes on KPIs, making results measurable.Feature: Impact Measurement
Calculates the exact ROI of deployments or marketing measures. Provides a data-driven answer regarding the specific utility of a change.Modes: Interval & Cumulative
Switch between interval view (effect per time unit) and cumulative view (total effect over time).Status: Open Beta
Currently unlocked as an Open Beta for all plans (future Business feature).Mid-February 2026 UX Optimization & Drag-and-Drop
Focus on workflow efficiency and performance improvements.Graph Interaction
Timeframes can now be selected and zoomed directly within the graph using drag-and-drop.Performance
Significantly reduced loading times through intelligent fetching and optimized caching strategies.Contextual Help
Expanded integration of documentation directly within the UI for faster troubleshooting without context switching.Early February 2026 Funnel Analysis, Payloads & 404 Tracking
The first update of the year expands the platform with essential conversion tools and deeper insights into technical events.New: Funnel Analysis
Understand where you lose users. With the new Funnel Analysis, you can define custom routes (e.g., Landing Page -> Pricing -> Checkout) and see at a glance:- Conversion Rates: What percentage of users reach the next step?
- Drop-off Points: At which point do most users abandon the process?
Added: Detailed Event Payloads
Your custom events now offer full transparency. You can view attached payload data (JSON/metadata) directly in the event overview (“Event Payload”). This allows for a granular analysis of specific user actions without detours.New: Automatic 404 Tracking
Find out when and where users land on error pages. Integration is incredibly simple: Mark any element on your 404 page with the attributedata-bchic-error="404". The system detects this automatically and lists the errors clearly in your events.
Improved: Outbound Links Visualization
The display of “Outbound Links” has been completely redesigned. New visualizations provide a faster overview of click volumes and the distribution of external destinations.December 2025 User Intent, Smart Paths & UX Upgrades
Our final major update of the year brings deep insights into user intent and powerful new analysis tools.Added: Sitemap Indexing & User Intent (Business Plan)
Understand not just what users do, but why they do it. With our new Sitemap integration, you can import your site structure and classify areas (e.g., Informational vs. Commercial). Alternatively, manually group visited paths to visually recognize visitor interests at a glance.New: Power Feature “Paths”
Path analysis has been completely overhauled. Instead of simple flows, you now see detailed metrics for every step:- Dwell Time: How long do users stay on a specific path segment?
- Loss & Loop Detection: Instantly identify where users drop off (“Loss”) or go in circles (“Loop”), signaling potential confusion.
Added: Advanced Filtering & Grouping
The filter bar has become much more powerful:- Global Device Filters: Quickly filter your entire view by Desktop, Mobile, or Tablet.
- URL Grouping: Group entire path classes (e.g.,
/blog/*or/products/*) to keep your analysis organized. Now supports Regex for maximum flexibility.
Improved: UTM Campaign Visualization
Small detail, big impact: The UTM overview now automatically displays logos for known platforms (Instagram, Meta, ChatGPT, etc.), allowing you to identify traffic sources faster visually.August 2025 Internationalization & UI Improvements
This release marks the transition to a monthly update cycle.Improved: Scroll Depth Analysis
Scroll depth data from desktop and laptop users is now combined, allowing for a unified and more comprehensive analysis.Added: User Cohort Analysis
It is now possible to set multiple filters for user cohorts simultaneously. These filters remain active across different pages.Added: English Language Version
The entire platform is now also available in English.Added: Product Documentation
Launched comprehensive documentation to explain all platform features.Improved: Main Navigation
Introduced a new stacked sidebar for a clearer overview and faster navigation.July 2025 Dashboard Enhancements & Deeper Insights
Added: Dashboard with Comparison Data
The dashboard has been fundamentally redesigned. It now offers customizable KPIs, the definition of conversion goals, and the ability to compare data with a previous period.Added: Scroll Depth Analysis Page
A new page for analyzing scroll behavior has been implemented. It includes a heatmap overlay and a survival chart to visualize drop-off patterns.Improved: Team Management
Organization management has been enhanced. It is now possible to delete users and restrict their permissions based on their role.Improved: UTM Analysis
The UTM page has been optimized. URL paths for subpages can now be customized, created links can be copied or deleted, and filtering capabilities can be used more precisely.Added: Onboarding & Script Integration
Implemented an onboarding tour that guides new users through the core features. The script integration guide has also been revised.June 2025 Open Beta & New Analysis Tools
Added: UTM Campaign Analysis & Start of Open Beta
The platform is now available as an Open Beta. A new page for analyzing UTM campaigns has been added, including visualization and categorization of traffic by source.Added: User Journey Analysis (Paths)
A new page has been added to visualize the paths users take on the website.Improved: Event Tracking
The “Events” page has been enhanced with detailed performance tables and automatically tracks scroll depth and outbound link clicks.Improved: Login and Registration
The login and registration process has been redesigned for a better user experience.Added: Filtering Capabilities
Implemented granular filtering options for data, including by path, URL, and device type.May 2025 Start of the Closed Beta
Release: Start of the Closed Beta
The bchic analytics platform launched in a closed beta phase. The initial core features included:- Visitor Tracking
- Session Duration & Bounce Rate
- Device Type Analysis
- Page Views & Unique Visits
- Basic Login System and Team Invitations