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Woopra: Real time web analytics

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I just added this to my Travel Blog host to kick the tires. It's pretty slick, and does what it says.

I can click a link on my site, and watch the report update in another window. Nice.

Right now I'm watching a guy in China as he creates new accounts and tries to post spam. It's actually pretty fun.

I use both Mixpanel and Woopra on my personal site. Mixpanel is awesome for tracking whenever users click on my site, and to be honest I haven't had much of a need for real-time analytics yet so I don't check my Woopra dashboard as often, but it is very comprehensive and good info to look at every once in a while. I like how you could tag visitors though. It seems like a decent free alternative to Chartbeat.

Looks good, but why have the Demo button on the homepage if there's no actual demo? Also, how much does it cost?

Don't know why they hide their pricing plans but you have to sign up to get to see the pricing plans when you try to add a website to your account.

There is a free plan for less than 30k pageviews per month and 3 month data retention, $4.95 for 100k and 6 month retention all the way up to 179.95 for 10,000k pageviews and 36 month data retention. There are added features for the more expensive plans too.

Hitsniffer is another realtime analytics competitor, and I love it. Maybe it's not as snazzy as Chartbeat (and Woopra looks good) but if your focus is on watching your customer right through the sales funnel, I'd give it a go.

Works great with Wordpress, and has a plugin that makes setup a cinch.

Not easy on the Woopra site to find out plans or pricing.

So I guess there's no conflict with running side-by-side with Google? Does Woopra give ecommerce stats (e.g. what search keyword produced a sale today).

We use Woopra on The Changelog (http://thechangelog.com/) and we love it :)

The chat feature adds a nice big brother touch to this thing, really nice.

Looks good, but terrible, terrible writing.

Has anyone here used this?

Not them in particular but I'm currently testing Chartbeat and Reinvigorate (both Woopra competitors it seems) on my blog until I decide which one I like more. To be frank I don't like either. One is only about what is happening now (chartbeat) and doesn't tell you things like how many visitors you got in the last month. Reinvigorate tells you those things but all the data is spread out over tons of pages and you have to click around several times to get what you're looking for. I used to use Mint for all this (but not as realtime... you need to update it to see new numbers) but it needed its own database and I wanted to go with a much more simple setup on my jekyll site. No sql anymore!

chartbeat screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/186198/Screenshots/o0-4.png

reinvigorate screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/186198/Screenshots/mrva.png

I've been using Mixpanel, but Woopra looks for powerful out of the box, at least for my needs. I've installed the tracking code and will play with it tomorrow.

I haven't tried Chartbeat or Reinvigorate.

OK, I'm on right now, and this kicks ass. This is exactly what I wanted at my last company. When you're dealing with relatively few (but very important) visitors, having this kind of real-time awareness is gold. I can't wait to try it tomorrow when more people are online.

Yep, I have used it on a couple of sites now.

It is great to be able to see your traffic in real-time if, say, you have just been techcrunched. But day-to-day, I found the Java desktop interface pretty hard to fathom.

It looks like they have a new web interface now though, which could be much better

I'm trying out the web interface and I like it so far.

We used it on our site Prophecy.co.za for a few months. It's very interesting to watch, and can provide some interesting insight, but for us at the end of the day we decided it's not worth it. However, when we have a fancy office one day I'll put it up on a big LCD in the reception area :)

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