Comments on: Betaworks Launches Chartbeat To Track Who Is Paying Attention To Your Website Right Now

By: Woopra Opens Its Doors For Live Web Analytics

Woopra Opens Its Doors For Live Web Analytics — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:04:54 +0000

[...] Sure, there are a lot of analytics alternatives, so what makes Woopra so special? Real Time. It’s the big trend this year, and Woopra certainly delivers. Woopra is similar to Google Analytics but provides real time stats and a number of additional features, such as the ability to chat real time with visitors to the site. (See also, Chartbeat and our coverage). [...]

By: idthis Photo With A Little Help From Your Friends

idthis Photo With A Little Help From Your Friends — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:06:14 +0000

[...] idthis, a simple site developed by Billy Chasen, who previously created chartbeat (which I covered here) and firef.ly for [...]

By: SC

SC — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:32:37 +0000

what is the technology behind this? how does this work?

By: Clark Benson

Clark Benson — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:19:36 +0000

agreed that for most businesses analytics should not be based on micro short-term trends, but there is definitely a use case for this if you have a media-based site with topical/trend oriented traffic, you can optimize your homepage content quickly and on the fly via a resource like this and shove more Octomom, etc news into the maw of a willing and rabid public

By: ArabCrunch

ArabCrunch — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:10:30 +0000

Woopra Beats Google Analytics in RealTime: Now with New Releases + 10 Invites….

Many Arab startups just duplicate International websites especially American based and add few things such as local feel and an Arabic Interface. However there are a number of Arab entrepreneurs and startups who are thinking outside the box and going G…

By: Agent

Agent — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:50:13 +0000

amazing tool

By: Nabeel Hyatt

Nabeel Hyatt — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:40:36 +0000

Have you ever run an online game? Running averages of things like peak concurrent, average concurrent, and low concurrent users is a very valuable thing. And if the site is suddenly slowing down, having an immediate dashboard showing where users are congregating that is causing the slowdown is helpful.

Does it help me make many long term business decisions? No. But it is not helpful.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:29:08 +0000

cool product – i just signed up and installed. within 5 minutes of reading this i was watching visitor activity on my site. nice. signing through paypal was a bit of pain.. oh well..

while this will not replace enterprise class analytics, software, this is def. a great way to augment it.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:12:51 +0000

Sam, that’s true, but GA is NOT real time. At best it’s 2 to 4 hours behind, which is not acceptable if you actually want real time data.

By: Caty

Caty — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:11:45 +0000

not true, check out http://www.tval...s.com/home.html live tv streaming onto the web. Visits and trends are fed back to the show and it responds to that dynamically.

By: Chrys Bader

Chrys Bader — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:33:58 +0000

Read my comment above, Robin

By: Chrys Bader

Chrys Bader — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:32:53 +0000

Real-time analytics does offer something in terms of knowing where your traffic surge is coming from – OR – letting you know when there’s a problem with your site.

Also, with software like Woopra where you can see an individual visitor’s navigation path, you can begin to learn how your users are using your site and learn about issues with the workflow of your site.

Although Google Analytics offers navigations paths as well, there is a different kind of data you can pull from seeing an individual user use your site in real-time. It’s almost like watching a Silverback (another great piece of usability software) demo.

This product looks cool, although I don’t know if I’m ready to pay $10/mo for something like this when whos.amung.us and Woopra do it for free (although they both have their shortcomings too)

By: Jack Wong

Jack Wong — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:23:07 +0000

We have had this with Hitslink for over 4 years.

By: Robb Lewis

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:44:17 +0000

Interesting and very nice visuals. But this is really just a feature that can be added by so many others, including google, and will probably always be free somewhere. @robblewis

By: Anne H

Anne H — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:30:45 +0000

Looks interesting with the alerts which could be useful. At the same time, I cringe every time someone wants me to add another javscript file. They start to add up and impact performance.

By: Chris R

Chris R — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:22:29 +0000

I just spent some time checking this out. It is pretty cool, though I don’t think I’ll be spending $10 a month for this.

Thank you for letting me know that I can check today’s activity from Google Analytics. I didn’t know.

By: Robin Wauters

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:46:49 +0000

Happy to learn how watching stats roll in all day help your online business. The real advantage of web analytics is spotting trends over periods of time which you can adjust to, there’s absolutely no business case for real-time stats. None.

By: Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:35:49 +0000

We just installed this – it was cool for an hour, until a memory leak caused it to bring down our website.

Stay away.

By: Chartbeat: Real-time web traffic monitoring

Chartbeat: Real-time web traffic monitoring — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:45:51 +0000

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By: Michael Kimsal

Michael Kimsal — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:15:16 +0000

Real time is a ‘gimmick’? The majority of web operations have adapted their businesses around ‘next day’ stats, and true, not *everyone* has a need for real time info. I believe, though, that as real-time info because more common place, we’ll see services and businesses spring up around the availability of that real-time info.

By: Pierce

Pierce — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:10:21 +0000

what is important is the ability to see who is reading vs who is writing for me that’s pretty important to me. Will I make business decisions on it in real time.. no but over the course of a month of data i might.

By: Gadgetsteria » Follow your site in real time with Chartbeat

Gadgetsteria » Follow your site in real time with Chartbeat — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:45:50 +0000

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By: Business Board

Business Board — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:04:10 +0000

Or if you had an ounce of sense you could just install bbclone for free.

By: sameer

sameer — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:35:25 +0000

I would agree to that. You do not need real time analytics for business decision. Talk to any analytics expert and they would tell you the same thing – analysis needs to be based on trends and you are not going to sit and watch realtime to know when there is a spike. There are services for that.

Its a cool looking site but no real business value here. Avinash Kaushik of Web Analytics an hour a day even mentions this in his book – you do not need real time analytics.

By: Daniel Larsson

Daniel Larsson — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:09:35 +0000

I agree to a point with the business use of it. BUT it might really be useful from a ‘future tail’ standpoint where you can watch a campaign take speed and prepare!