Woopra Analytics Providing Real Time Stats
I have been using Google Analytics for a little while and although it provides a lot of useful information I didn’t like the fact that the data seems delayed by at least 24 hours. It would be a hell of a lot better if it could give an analysis of what was happening on my blog in real time. Luckily I came across something that would do just that. It’s called Woopra and it’s just what the blogger or webmaster ordered.
I can’t give you a proper review of it yet as I’ve only just started using it yesterday, but there is one thing that I have tested, and it seems to work fine. Once I installed the the code in the footer, there is also a WordPress plugin available, and downloaded a program to the computer I discovered that apart from collecting real time data I was able to initiate a chat with my readers.
I am now able to see what visitors are doing on my blog in real time, including which post they are reading, whether or not they leave a comment and I’m pretty sure that it even shows if they click on a link. So, if you see a little box pop up in the bottom right hand side titled Woopra Chat, that says “Webmaster:” followed by a message, please don’t run away because it’s only little old me wanting to say hi. So far I have chatted with Dennis who’s looking for guest bloggers, Mitch who is trying to improve the style and appearnce of his Firefox and I think I have also managed to scare off Kristi and I dearly hope that the experience does not set off another episode of sleep paralysis. I’m not sure what happened to Pheak Tol, perhaps I caught him at the wrong moment and he was analyzing his writers block post to see if he could add anything to it.
This seems like the perfect addition to those sites who may require a one on one with their prospective customers, but for me I just want to have fun.
If you do stop to chat I promise not to take too much of your time.
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I took a look at Woopra and its a nice program and looks professional, however its missing a few vital features that I would love to have in an analytics app that isnt Google Analytics. Visitor segmentation, so you can put visitors into groups then present them with different information or emails. Campaign management would be great to get more detailed with online and offline campaigns and link it it with all the online data, not just search referrals. Parameter string parsing is a must for tracking the origin of visits. And if you can have all that so you can track a visitor across multiple sites as well then it would be awesome.
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Sire Reply:
February 17th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Now that would be a package and a half Matt, and I don’t know if there is a package that would do all that, but if there was I bet you it would set you back at least a couple of bucks. It does show you the normal parameters like where they came from, IP address, what they did while on your site and that sort of thing. I’ve still got a bit of investigating to do but so far I am impressed.
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Matt from Idealo News Reply:
February 18th, 2009 at 3:04 am
Yeah there are a couple of systems that offer those specs. Google Analytics does most of it, but I just dont like the idea of giving them more data that is necessary sometimes. Then theres enterprise solutions like Webtrends, Unica Netinsight, Omniture, Coremetrics and Yahoo’s Indextools. Im hoping that Yahoo will open up their solution to compete with Google at some point.
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Sire Reply:
February 18th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Truthfully, I never knew, a;though I imagined, that so many different programs existed, and I assume that there are heaps more. I’m not a real stats freak, and I only really tried this one out because of it’s chat feature, but I am glad I did.
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Hi Sire, I’m going to give it a shot with hotblogtips.com. I just registered and waiting for site approval. I use Google Analytics and a different plugin on Extreme Ezine but to tell you the truth I don’t check the stats very often. I’m hoping Woopra will be easier to access and understand.
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Sire Reply:
February 17th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Shit Brian, I just realized who you were. Man, you must have more sites than I do! As for the package, I really like it. I have it running in the background and it’s as smooth as anything. It keeps me updated every minute of the day, I just have to bring it up to the screen to see what is happening on the blog.
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Sire,
I’m going to set this up today. Very cool features. The chat option sounds amazing, but it would probably scare the crap out of someone. Big brother seems to be watching more and more these days.
Great tip, thanks!
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Sire Reply:
February 17th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Well Tam, I don’t see why it should scare anyone, unless it opens up with a bang. Shit! Maybe I should turn on my speaker to test this theory out.
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I’ve been using it since beta opened; great tool…it has a few small issues…there are discrepancies between it and analytics’s and it has a tendency to freeze up…but the update seemed to have solve that and the disappearing stat issue.
Its maturing very nicely.
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Sire Reply:
February 17th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
You know Donace, I can’t for the life of me remember where I first come across this little treasure. All I remember was that I was visiting a blog and this little box popped up asking for a chat, and so I did. That wasn’t you was it?
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Donace | The Nexus Reply:
February 18th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Possibly I can’t remember but woopra is a stats freak fav tool!
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Thanks for the chat and link buddy. I really like the e-commerce chat with customer idea, I’ll have to remember that one.
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Sire Reply:
February 17th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
No worries Dennis, always willing to spread a bit of love around, linkluv that is.
As for ideas, I am full of them, they just need to be coaxed out of me somehow.
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The stats for Google Analytics update each night at midnight for me. At times, there are added visitors and page views the next day too. Overall, it’s solid. Especially since it’s free. Woopra sounds like a strong program. Looking forward to hearing your full review in the coming weeks. I’d be interested in a comparison of the two, which I’m guessing you’ll do. Are you using both at the moment?
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Sire Reply:
February 17th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Yep, but I don’t think it would be fair to do a full comparison until it is out of Beta. I can say that as I am running part of the program my computer, updates are extremely fast and it’s good watching people move around the site. I think it also has access to gravatars as well as it will show the you who the visitor is if a gravatar exists.
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I may have to look into this one Sire, I’ve been using Wassup and Google Analytics since I started in the blogosphere, do you have any experience with those two? How does Woopra compare?
I’m happy with google/wassup, but would love for the opportunity to chat with users or even for them to chat with me.
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Sire Reply:
February 17th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
OK Jeremy, what gives? Are you yanking my chain with this Wassup analytic thing? I’ve never heard of it and with a blog called WassupBlog, you would think I would know about something like that.
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I’m not scared off. Even if I were, it would be a good thing, because then I would have another episode of sleep paralysis, and get to try the whole lucid dream technique with it.
That does look like an awesome tool though. I downloaded the beta awhile ago, but never got around to playing with it. I’ll have to give it a shot soon!
~ Kristi
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Sire Reply:
February 17th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
So Kristi, does that mean that you didn’t notice that I was trying to have a chat with you, or you did notice but you just don’t talk to strange Aussie men?
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Hope it does the trick for you, mate!
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Sire Reply:
February 17th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Hey Peter, I tried to chat mate but you ignored me. Typical bloody Kiwi.
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I remember us talking about this a while ago, but it didn’t quite hit me until now, even though we talked using the chat feature last night. Neat stuff, but for now, with everything else going on, I’ll probably stick with Analytics. Then again, you know me; you introduce something, then I suddenly “discover” it a month later. lol
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Sire Reply:
February 18th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Yef, that’s me always on the forefront of discovery
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Oh hell no!
I know what happens if I had live updates. I would be sitting there watching people on the site & yelling things like -”Hey, why didn’t you check out the post that goes with that one?” “Why are you leaving?”….. Having then the ability to chat with them – I would have no readers. I’d end up sending those messages in the chat to people. LOL!
I have worked a live help on one of our old sites & I know I would be nuts watching.
I do have Analytic’s on our sites but, I am having problems with it. So, I will see how this works out for you guys before I mess with it.
I see that Woopra flashes acrossed the bottom bar, must be updating.
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Sire Reply:
February 18th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Woopra flashes? Must be a male trying to show you his assets
I can just imagine you going ballistic at he monitor trying to coax you readers to a specific post.
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Yeah if I will be able to get the latest updates than certainly I will capitalise it to get more from my blogs and to earn more. But I want to see which other features they are providing.
So I would love to give it a try as you are referring this :)
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Hey, it’s always worth giving these free programs a try as you never know when you will come across a real good find. It did take awhile getting accepted so be prepared to wait for a bit.
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Hi Sire,
Wow I had no idea about this service! I imagine there could be a lot of fun to it!!! But at this point I think I am happy just to have time to quickly check my stats on analytics every few days or so. As Sheryl above said, it might be too much fun and kind of addicting to track what is going on at every moment.
But I definitely want to check it out as I like staying connected to as much current tech and service stuff on the web as I can – so thanks :)
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Hi Evita, I suppose us blokes can consider ourselves lucky as we are more resistant to the addictiveness of these sort of products, unless there is the potential that we could pick up some sheilas
Of course, being a happily married man, that sort of thing doesn’t interest me anymore.
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I’ve not heard of Woopra before have Just Goggled it and cant see any negative feedback about the software at all so going to give it a try. Will you still use Google Analytics in conjunction with Woopra?
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Sire Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 2:38 am
Sure, just until I can work which one I like better.
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Thats a cool stats program. I’ve never heard of it before but now I will periodically check it out.
Thanks for the heads up!
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No worries JW, that’s why I am here for.
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With more and more technology tracking the traffic to our sites, I wonder how basic readers who aren’t in the blogging community feel about it. We know their location, movements on the site, time on there. Do most none industry people realize how much of their info in the hands of the sites they visit? I thanked a person the other day for visiting my site. He said, how did you know? Let him know that I saw in in my stats. Was it little surprised it was possible.
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Sire Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
I don’t think that most would care unless they were hackers. I used to run a BBS, as the owner I was able to see a lot more of what they were doing online than what even Woopra offers. I was even able to eavesdrop on conversations they were having with other members.
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Mitch Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Why doesn’t it surprise me that you also used to run a BBS? Back then, it was technology I knew absolutely nothing about, except to sign on, download my messages, then move on with life.
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Sire Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
It was actually quite fun and I had complete control as I ran it all from home, not like now where you need to rely on your host. I also had quite a few paying members which is a lot more profitable than having subscribers.
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Dennis Edell Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Like todays membership sites. Very profitable but not easy to do it right (not lose members).
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Sire Reply:
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:40 am
Could you give me an example, i.e. as in a link?
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Dennis Edell Reply:
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:33 am
You must be joking!
Seriously there are thousands of membership sites, both free and cost-based (and the free ones always have multiple “upgrade options”) in every niche imaginable.
It’s long been said that this is the best and “easiest” money maker on the ‘net. Money each month like clockwork.
Easy my ass. More and more can’t seem to keep members for more then a month or 3 because their upkeep sucks! “Upkeep” meaning continually serving fresh whatever was paid for in the first place,
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Gennaro from Enduring Wanderlust Reply:
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:26 pm
That’s funny about the eavesdropping. I don’t mind it myself, info given out that is when visiting, but a lot of people have no idea. They’re a little shocked when I tell them. Many don’t believe the tracking abilities. It’s part funny, part tragedy.
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Sire Reply:
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:13 am
I suppose the only way that they can comprehend the abilities of Woopra is to try it for themselves.
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More and more I hear about Woopra. I guess I need to take a look at it. For the most part I am satisfied with Analytics.
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The more I use it the more attracted I am towards Woopra, but then I am not a true Stats person, but having said that I like bells and whistles and Woopra has a lot of those.
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Sire,
This sounds quite interesting. Does it in anyway conflict with Google Analytics codes. I mean can one blog have both Google Analytics and Woopra at the same time.
Peter Lee
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Sire Reply:
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:48 am
No conflict that I can tell Peter, and as for Infolinks, it’s as good as Kontera, and like Kontera you only earn money when they click on an ad.
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Oh Sire, I meant to ask you. I noticed you used Infolinks on your blog. Tell me is it any good. I’ve been thinking if I should use it. I heard it’s better than Kontera. Is it more profitable for you. Is it slowing down your blog loading time ‘cos that’s what Kontera did to my blog and I had it removed.
Peter Lee
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I suppose the only way that they can comprehend the abilities of Woopra is to try it for themselves.
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I think Woopra is very interesting. M using Google Analytics.. Let me check out how Woopra works.
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I have such a short memory I didn’t realize what the Woopra approval email was and never opened it. I completely forgot I was waiting for approval. I’m glad I was subscribed to your comments. I just went back and installed the WP plugin. We’ll see how it goes.
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Sire Reply:
February 25th, 2009 at 4:48 am
See, and there are some that say I have passed my used by code. Don’t forget to tell me what you think of it.
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Even i dont like the delay in getting the results on google analytics. I hope that Woopra is good and there arent any problems while using it
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Sire Reply:
February 25th, 2009 at 6:06 am
Then perhaps you should give Woopra a go, then you won’t have to wait any longer.
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Sire, if I remember correctly you were perhaps the first person I spoke to through the Woopra chat on my site.
The feature I like best is on the dashboard you can see what people searched for to find you. If you double click that search term you go directly to the Google, Yahoo, Ask, MSN etc. search and see exactly where you show up.
The worst feature is no manual or guide, so it took a while to figure out a lot of stuff.
Gennaro wrote:
>I wonder how basic readers who aren’t in the blogging community feel about it. We know their location, movements on the site,
I wonder about that myself. I always wonder if it will creep them out when I send them a message.
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Sire Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 1:36 am
Hey Ned, so it was you. I couldn’t remember which blog I was on and who I had that chat with; Must be something to do with my age. Thanks for clearing that up mate. I have managed to chat with a couple of people but I reckon some others were to freaked out to say hello.
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Thanks for recommending this. I am always on the lookout for an alternative to Google Analytics.
One thing worth mentioning is that Woopra is still in beta. From their installation guide – “Woopra is under beta testing development. There will be downtimes. There will be problems.”. This is worth keeping in mind if you are going to be depending on the stats.
The bigger problem is that sites are restricted to 10,000 page views a day. This completely rules it out for me, which is a shame.
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Sire Reply:
April 29th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Hey Rodney, it’s good to hear that you are getting more than 10,000 views per day mate. As for Woopra, no problems yet, and I’ll let you know as soon as they are out of Beta.
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