A Better Website Concept: A Lifestream Interface

Something about realtime web analytics is just cool to me. I think it’s the
idea of visualizing the interactions with distant objects. Well, people in
this case. I think it’s like why guys like laser pointers–it allows you to
touch things that are far away.

Anyway, I’ve been using
Whos.amung.us
and
Charbeat
on and off for the last several months, and I’ve been mostly happy with
them.

I just cancelled both of them and bought the base plan with
Woopra.

Woopra, by far, has the slickest realtime web analytics out there. Here are
a few features:

1. A Desktop Client (including OS X)The screenshot you see above came from
   the desktop client, and let me tell you..it looks like dashboard from
   STTNG. No joke. Super clean.

2. Near Instantaneous ResultsFrom the time of a hit coming in, it takes
   about 1-2 seconds to show up on the interface. It’s stunningly fast.

3. Brilliant AnalyticsWhile most competitor products have over-time
   analytics as something of an afterthought, Woopra can almost replace an
   actual analytics product by itself.

4. Realtime ChatThis one is downright spooky. As you’re looking at a
   visitor (which you can tag), you can elect to chat with them, and it’ll
   spawn a window in their browser coming from you. You can also enable an
   option to have site users chat with each other.

Seriously. Give it a try. I cancelled $20/month worth of services to move to
Woopra at $5/month. And if you take less than 30K hits per month you can get
in for free. ::