Release Notes for version 2.5.0.11

This maintenance and bug fix release is an important update. It brings big improvements in Usability and User Experience, and targets the most common previous instabilities and customer assistance issues.
Furthermore, it also experimentally unblocks in the free Community Edition many features previously only available on the paid Professional Edition (of course, the limit of maximum 500 pages is still in place).
For more details about release 2.5 "Jewelweed" please read: Visual SEO 2.5: graphical navigation.

New Features:

1. Site crawling tree view, Crawl View and Folder View: added new "Truncated" column to make evident at first sight when a resource is not extracted fully.
   This was requested by several users.
   Truncated pages often are truncated before the actual body content and may not let the tool extract any link or other contents.
2. Crawl Sitemap: added "Maximum Download size" option.

Usability / UX:

1. Links Inspector, added navigation chart to the main table and to the summary table; when bars are clicked, the corresponding filter is applied on the main link list.
2. Images Inspector, added navigation chart to the main table and to the summary table; when bars are clicked, the corresponding filter is applied on the main link list.
3. Links inspector, enabled navigation to the tabs directly by clicking on the pie charts in Summary page.
4. Image Inspector, enabled navigating to the tabs directly by clicking on the pie charts in Summary page.
5. Links inspector, suggestion tree tabs: now clicking on the pie chart slices you can select the related first-level element on the right-side tree view.
6. Images inspector, suggestion tree tabs: now clicking on the pie chart slices you can select the related first-level element on the right-side tree view.
7. Links Inspector, main list: filter combo box moved first in the above-the-table toolbar, above the new graph selector with the same function.
8. Images Inspector, main list: filter combo box moved first in the above-the-table toolbar, above the new graph selector with the same function.
9. Image Inspector, summary page pie charts: now legend is shown on the left, and only showing the values in pie slide labels.
10. Links Inspector, summary page pie charts: now legend is shown on the left, and only showing the values in pie slide labels.
11. Links Inspector: Graph in summary page have slices now colored based on the value, when a specific color is more appropriate, instead of the color being blindly assigned. For example, we avoid representing a slice in red when the user could be mislead to think it refers to an error.
12. Images Inspector: Graph in summary page have slices now colored based on the value, when a specific color is more appropriate, instead of the color being blindly assigned. For example, when a slice refers to cases of errors, the pie slice will be represented in red.
13. Images Inspector: in the main image list tab, removed the "IMG tags found" field from the toolbar: it was redundant, being the same piece of information already present in the "Shown" field.
14. Image Inspector: show a courtesy message in case of no images found.
15. Links Inspector, summary page: graph caption "Links by follow/nofollow" (and all language translations) changed to "Links by follow/nofollow" (with spaces between the /) to make it more readable (especially on Win it looked blurred).
16. [Mac] Links inspector: Mac has now a consistent behavior with the Windows version when showing a courtesy message in case of no links found matching the current extraction criteria.
17. [Win] Community Edition: crawl option "Maximum number of pages/images" numeric up/down control had a default increment (when clicking on the up/down buttons) of 500, making it very little usable (one had to type in the desired number to obtain it. Now default increment is 10.
18. [Mac] Community Edition: crawl option "Maximum number of pages/images" numeric up/down control had a default increment (when clicking on the up/down buttons) of 1. Now default increment is 10.
19. [Mac] Professional Edition and ProTrial Edition: crawl option "Maximum number of pages/images" numeric up/down control had a default increment (when clicking on the up/down buttons) of 1, making it very little usable (one had to type in the desired number to obtain it. Now default increment is 500.
20. Crawl options: default maximum download size is now 512 KB (it previously was 200 KB).
    Keep in mind that the average HTML weight is less than 30 KB (according to HTTP archive https://httparchive.org/reports/page-weight#bytesHtml ) and rarely exceeds 100 KB, but when it does, it really exceeds the average so much that we increasingly had request for assistance because the spider truncated the page and users did not understand it.
    Truncation is a good thing, but user has to notice it, so we added UI clues to point it out.
    Nevertheless, we also wanted to reduce the times truncation actually occurs so that if HTML page weight is not too much user could prioritize other things.
    Performance analysis still is to be done, and Visual SEO Studio is a powerful tool for that.
    Minimum and maximum possible sizes also slightly changed along with default increment to respect powers of two.
21. Tabular View: in case of page truncation (due to the page size exceeding the maximum download size), the "Truncated" column is now represented with an icon that better meets users' expectations (a red circled exclamation mark instead of a light-gray cross).
22. Readability Analysis: when exporting the data to Excel, cell colors are now exported too.
23. [Mac] Readability Analysis: grid now hidden when it is initially empty to ease clicking on the C2A link. The grid is now also hidden whenever a new analysis is in progress.
24. All "Site Analysis" reports and tools: layout made consistent in terms of controls padding and width.
25. Various "Site Analysis" reports and tools: layout made lighter, removing unnecessary borders.
26. Histogram graphs: vertical labels text drawn from top to bottom (i.e. rotated 90 degrees clockwise).
    On average it makes it more understandable in the rare cases when the text length exceeds the graph area.
27. Histogram graphs: for flat 2D bars do not use gradients but solid colors with no black outline for a lighter UI.
28. Histogram graphs: axis lines are now drawn lighter than the labels for a better UX.
29. Histogram graphs: ensure that vertical labels within the drawing area are always written.
30. [Mac] Histogram graphs: for better visibility of histograms use anti-aliasing only for texts and cylinders, not for XY axises, marks and rectangles.
31. [Mac] Histogram graphs: use mouse up event to pop up the context menu (consistent to Mac usability).
32. Pie charts: in case of empty pies draw at least border and title.
33. [Language IT] Some sentences reworded using less verbose expressions, more immediate to grasp.

Performances:

1. Links Inspector: switching filter is now extremely faster.
2. Program startup now slightly faster on average.
3. Images Inspector: switching filter is now extremely faster.
4. [Win] Sorting columns on any grid is now 100% faster.
5. [Win] Overall program UI (and other parts) performance slightly improved, better leveraging accelerations offered by the underlying OS version for Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Various:

1. The following features are now also available in the Community Edition (with of course the limitation that only up to 500 pages can be analyzed since that is that Community Edition crawl limit):
   URL suggestions, Images Inspector, Links Inspector, Performance suggestions, hreflang Analysis, Readability, Data Extraction and Custom Filters.
2. Readability tool command moved higher in Command Pad, and in Session Management toolbar and context menu.
3. Better diagnostics to recognize situations where major OS updates change the Hardware Signature to which a license is bound to.

Fixes:

1. [Mac] When the Links Inspector was launched on a crawl session already loaded in memory, the "Find Links" button did not get enabled.
2. Fixed crashing condition during crawling caused by a (wrong) link to what resulted in an incredibly long domain name.
3. Links Inspector: the "Broken links" filter did not take into account links that led to a 404 or 410 HTTP status AFTER a redirect chain.
4. Images Inspector: some badly formed image URLs, discarded for safety, could have caused the counts found items differ slightly with the ones shown.
5. Images Inspector: during processing time the underlying engine was a bit too early saying it reached 100% computation, as afterward it did some (usually very quick) further computation.
   We seriously doubt users could have ever noticed.
6. [Mac] Readability Analysis: using the quick link command instead of the equivalent main call to action button when the grid was empty resulted in a crash.
7. Histogram graphs: avoided potential crashing condition.
8. Histogram graphs: Avoided a crashing condition occurring when selecting in zoom mode starting from below the X axis and moving top left.
9. Histogram graphs: ensures that the histogram context menu matches the diagram type (2D/3D).
10. [Win] Histogram graphs: avoided a crash condition.
11. [Win] Histogram graphs: avoided a possible crash condition.
12. [Win] Histogram graphs: fixed crashing condition occurred when all graph bars had value zero.
13. [Mac] Histogram graphs: fixed default histogram border color on Mac to have it consistent with the default pie chart border color.
14. [Mac] Histogram graphs: fixed axis color when exporting histograms in dark mode.
15. [Mac] Histogram graphs: fixed wrong zooming factor behaviours after a context menu item selection.
16. [Win] Pie charts: fixed a minor issue, where at the first focus a pie slice was not highlighted if the pie was first overlapped by the progress bar.
17. [Win] Images Inspector: at the end of the processing the progress bar overlaying the summary page graphs disappeared, but left an "indented corner" on top of the graph in the background.
18. [Win] Links Inspector: at the end of the processing the progress bar overlaying the summary page graphs disappeared, but left an "indented corner" on top of the graph in the background.
19. [Mac] Fixed the drawing of a single tab when its width is less than 200px (the issue could also have been potentially a rare corner case crash, even if it never happened to a real user).
20. [Mac] Avoided a potential crash when reducing the size of a tab control (the issue could also have been potentially a rare corner case crash, even if it never happened to a real user).
21. [Mac] When activating a Professional (or Pro Trial) edition, the program main title didn't get updated with the new edition name.
22. Crawl Sitemap: a crawl option label text did not fit the allotted space for Russian language. Now the dialog window has been re-arranged and re-sized.
23. [Mac] Session window: titles of histograms "Links depth" and "Download time" did not update when switching application language.
24. Typos fixed (various languages).