Web Site Statistics with Woopra.Com
If you are looking for comprehensive web site stats, produced beautifully and in realtime then look no further than Woopra.com
This site offers in-depth analysis of visitors and traffic to your web site as they happen, including a world map view that show where your visitors are located.
And it’s FREE!:
Cool thanks will check this out – I have been using feedburner and google analytics for stats, but this looks very comprehensive
Just set this up last night and I can tell you it totally kicks Google Analytics and Feedburner… just in the interface alone. Not to mention it is all real time…
http://jonathanboettcher.com/woopra-the-chuck-norris-of-site-analytics/
It certainly is a wonderful tool. As you say Jonathan, it kicks Google Analytics into touch
it’s gonna take a while to get my www site approved though due to popular demand I believe
At least you are in the queue now though
Ok conjecture time, anyone fancy getting stuck in?
I feel sorry for some Mac heads who previously (prior to May) got excited enough to dive straight in download woopra app + Apple Developer Connection program in order to update to Java SE 6 beta for OS X only to find they get hung up waiting for approval. The woopra signup is a iddy biddy bit misleading “By signing up for a Woopra account, you will be able to add websites and download the Woopra client.” – they missed the bit that says if you don’t have an invite code you’ll have to wait for weeks because we’re not ready for ya oh and you’ll need to update to a potentially unstable version of Java (forunately now officially released – but only for Intel Machines running Leopard ).
I’m interested in the business model though, oh and the real need for someone to pop up and unsolicited chat dialog – in business terms can only be compared to those attentive staff in shops who ask you if you need help choosing your bog roll or the waiters who come up to you when you’ve got a mouth full of steakie and chips to find out if you’re food is edible. It could be a tad unnerving as a potential client/customer to know there’s someone monitoring your visit – might even put me off.
I’m looking fwd to trying this, eventually, but I think the founders of woopra are banking on a buyout to take on google analytics and some features are too geeky to be useful.
A little harsh and cynical I feel.
I d/l’d the Java 6 beta from the Sun website and was able to use it without any problems. The invite code is for “jump to top of the queue” private invites etc. I’m happy with Woopra, it gives me a lot of info and users remain anonymous unless they choose to register with the website in question.
Suggest you watch the GeekBrief.TV episode where the creators are interviewed. Give good background into the project and the privacy issues:
http://www.geekbrief.tv/introducing-woopra-youre-gonna-want-it
Thanks for the link – don’t get me wrong these guys have something very good indeed esp from the realtime engineering perspective, it looks a slick, well presented app. What I think they should have done is not to organically grow their user base, hence the waiting list – this is something I have experience of from a previous client and it really isn’t a good mode of business development, esp as their long term financial plan would seem to suggest we give it away free to grow our subscriber base in order to attract Yahoo or Microsoft into buying us out, rather than try go IPO – at which point the terms of use are likely to change some what. I think slightly unethical considering the millions buyout generates.
I suppose I’m eyeing this service up as a potential business tool rather than a social tool i.e. from a Web2.0 social networking point features such as the chat could be attractive for bloggers. Personally I’m not a fan of push marketing on business websites, so pushing chat to visitors to generate leads would seem just as annoying – though I would make use of it the other way round i.e. as a means for visitors to contact me and build some initial rapport.
A major plus point is being able to see referrers and a run down of which keywords are driving traffic to my site (or not as the case may be) as I’d like to optimise my meta data & description. Feedburner visitor Stats have already proved useful for doing just this.
I look forward to seeing some support for poor old PowerPC Mac users like moi.
I’ll get me coat.
Valid points well put. I think with cookies and ad-tracking etc Woopra is small-fry on the privacy front. I think you can refuse the chat requests and opt out if you want (not checked this)
The referrers and keyword info is brilliant and invaluable. I think the sign-up mechanism is sensible considering it’s free and they want to scale it to preserve the integrity of the client’s data access etc. Not that your points are wrong. I just have a slightly different view.
Wonderful pages! Keep up the great work.