Overview
May was a big month for measuring what matters. The headline act: Publication Analytics landed, so you can finally see how your publications perform without guessing. We also gave merchandisers fresh tools to drop promotions exactly where shoppers look, made it easier to take desktop work mobile, and squashed a satisfying pile of migration and interaction bugs (including one iOS Safari gremlin that really overstayed its welcome). Let's dig in.
Fastr Publications
Publication Analytics has arrived
You can now see exactly how each publication is doing — right inside Fastr. The new per-page breakdown shows views, time on page, and clicks for every page, so you can spot the spreads that grab attention and the ones that get skipped. Heatmaps are version-aware too, so you're always looking at the right revision of a page rather than a muddle of old and new. We also tightened up the data plumbing behind the scenes so the numbers you see are the numbers you trust.
Want to dig into your numbers? Check out our Publication Analytics guide.
Combine & Manage Pages: your layouts stay put
Combining publications used to occasionally reshuffle things — widgets could lose their stacking order, custom image-shape settings didn't always survive the trip, and stray shapes could leave ghost links behind. Widget order and image-shape settings now carry through Combine and Manage Pages exactly as you set them, and those phantom links are gone — so a merged publication looks like the one you designed.
Learn more in our Combine PDFs guide.
Copy widgets from Desktop to Mobile
Built a beautiful desktop layout and dreading rebuilding it for mobile? Now you don't have to. In Manage Pages you can copy widgets straight from the Desktop variant to the Mobile variant and tweak from there — build once, adapt fast.
Fastr Workspace
Visual Element Manager: put promos where shoppers look
Two new merchandising tools make it easy to inject promotional content into the moments that count. Grid Interrupters let you drop banners straight into product-listing and search-results grids, and the PDP Banner manager places promotions on product-detail pages. No code, no developer ticket — just put the message where the eyes already are.
Migration: clearer status, smoother moves
Bringing experiences over from Fastr Frontend got a serious upgrade this month. Migrated experiences now show a clear "Live in Workspace" or "Live in Frontend" badge so you always know where each one is actually serving — and once an experience is finalized, its links automatically redirect visitors to the Workspace version (with a per-team toggle so you control the cutover).
The Migration Finalize tools also grew up: you can now Finalize All at once, unfinalize when you need to roll something back, bulk-republish migrated experiences, and export an audit CSV of what moved. We also squashed a batch of migration snags: image fills that imported as "Contain" instead of "Fill," future-dated scheduled experiences that incorrectly showed as live after finalizing, shared library files that weren't recognized after import, brand-asset files that could export truncated, and integration JavaScript that returned 403s on republish when a name changed.
Getting started with a move? Our Migrate content from Fastr Frontend guide has you covered.
Interactions: fixes that make things behave
A few interaction bugs got shown the door:
- iOS Safari links now fire. Taps on links weren't registering for some iPhone and iPad visitors — not exactly the conversion path we were going for. Fixed.
- Slide animations on rotated text no longer break when the text widget is rotated.
- Fade animations reset properly after scene navigation and inside Overlays, so they play correctly the second, third, and hundredth time.
New to animations? Start with our Interactions Overview.
Questions? Feedback? A heatmap of where you spend your afternoons? Drop us a line at support@getfastr.com!
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