I really like the real time displays but we also need to look at what happened yesterday, last month, etc. Is there any way to get historical information/graphs/charts?
Well, there are many web analytics tools that will show zou historical data, you can use Google Analytics for free, then you also have Google Webmasters Tools which you a different insight into your website.
But monitoring the traffic in real time is a real curiosity. That is where Hummingbird comes in. Very neat.
Agreed. However, if Hummingbird is capturing the data anyway it should be possible to build an interface to allow me to troll through it. I just didn't know if this was built-in to HB or if would be something that I would have to build.
Yeah - I think this is really pretty but think that in most cases looking at the small picture isn't half as useful as the big picture.
Both types of analysis have their place. The "small picture" is the most important picture to news organizations, for example. They want to know which news stories are trending right now to determine homepage placement and what content to focus on covering in the next few coming hours.