Real Time Analytics: Woopra vs Chartbeat vs Reinvigorate vs Statcounter

As someone who loves stats and created an entire website to let people track their own stats (on youtube & digg) real time web stats to my own sites really interest me. There are a number of tools out there on the web these days to show you who is visiting your website (such as google analytics) but the I really love the ones that give you this data real time.

Woopra 0:49 & 8:19
http://Woopra.com
Woopra just like all of the others have a web app you can use but I really like the desktop app they provide as well. It seems like they are trying to kill it off but I hope they don't. Woopra, which has probably been around longer then any of the others is very polished. You can quickly see how many people are live on your site and then easily sort the information to see where people are coming from, what countries they are from, etc. The only real downside here is you only get 30k pageviews for free and then it gets really expensive. If their prices matched what some of their competition charged I'd probably stick with them but the fact is they don't so they are starting to lose my business.

Chartbeat 2:25
http://chartbeat.com
Chartbeat is a much simpler stats site compared to woopra but it does the real time user graph really well. You get a nice chart a the top showing a graph of users over the past day as well as a big counter. What they make it hard to do though is to see where people are coming from, specifically. They'll tell you someone came from youtube.. but... well good luck finding the exact video :) I do really like their alert feature though that sends me a text message when I get traffic spikes, or my server has issues. Chartbeat is not free but at $10/mo for up to 1000 concurrent users its currently my favorite priced site.

Reinvigorate 4:31
http://reinvigorate.com
Reinvigorate in many ways aims to do the same thing woopra does but IMHO doesn't do it as well. It's a much clunkier interface making finding the information you're looking for hard. The one neat thing it does do though the others don't is give you a heat map that lets you really see what people are looking at, or at least where they are putting their mouse when looking at your pages. One plus over chartbeat though is you can actually see the full link to the page your visitors are getting refereed from.

Statcounter 7:48
http://statcounter.com
This is a very basic site compared to the rest but a quick way to get a counter for free updated in real time of how many page views you got for the day. That's really all I use it for. They have a paid version but honestly I've never tried it since I get more out of the other sites.

Summary 8:48
In short, if your website has less then 30k pageviews a month I'd really recommend woopra to you as its a great tool but their pricing is just not competitive enough so if you have more then that I'd recommend chartbeat. I just really wish the sites would agree on what an 'active visitor' was since the numbers are so different I really don't know who is right, if any.

What do you use? Have you used any in the past? Let me know in the comments your favorite or which you're going to try out.


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[Zaunstar]

You're just as much of a stats nerd as I am! That's how I found your youtube and socialblade in the first place. SocialBlade is great!

[Urgo6667]

@Zaunstar haha thats awesome =]

[ImTheDaveman]

PS - are there any free ones out there? I wouldnt expect all the extra perks, maybe basics. Maybe you could review those as well??? If they exist. Yes Im cheap - LOL. No, with no more subscribers than I have at this stage I dont see spending money on an analytics for now.

[Urgo6667]

@ImTheDaveman Woopra is free if you get less then 30k pageviews a month

[bernardkho]

Woopra's the best !



[Minan3]

I notice how certain people, will log in to facebook seconds after I do, or They log in and log out...

The fact that my last birthday was weeks ago let's me know who exactly could be looking on my profile, and it was five people. I'm not scared of it, but just curious. tis a shame, there are a lot of the apps are scams...

[mikestenger]

Great reviews Urgo. I used to use Woopra, very solid, but don't need all the real-time stats. Currently use Clicky which IMO, knocks the crap out of Google Analytics.

[TammyFlores1]

@Urgo6667 yeah at about 3:30 AM. I woke up after 2PM today :)

[Urgo6667]

@ssurjap gotcha

[Urgo6667]

@TinFoilChefDotCom cool well check them out but beware, they are addicting :)

[Urgo6667]

@TammyFlores1 you make it back to canada?

[Urgo6667]

@hippygram Hehe thanks :)

[Urgo6667]

@mattlaw25 It is rather disconcerting. Guess they just each define an 'active visitor' something different, that and tracking blockers like adblock.

[mattlaw25]

I really don't trust any of them when their numbers are all different

[hippygram]

Interesting zzzzzzzzzzzzz to fellow computer geeks. Whatever floats your boat. Only kidding, kinda, I do admire your intelligence. Have a nice holiday.

[TinFoilChefDotCom]

I've used statcounter for a couple of years and google analytics on and off for the same time. This is the first I've heard of the others.

[TammyFlores1]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[ImTheDaveman]

I had no idea this stuff existed! I gotta try one out! Although I get so little traffic Im not sure if it would be worth my time yet. ~ sigh ~ :-)

[ssurjap]

@Urgo6667 :). It just thinks that it's an ad, so it blocks that. I can just turn it off for a bit or add them to the safe site.

[Urgo6667]

@OHtheFAM Glad I could help :)

[Urgo6667]

@ssurjap sounds like you need to get rid of vipre then. None of these sites are harmful. Looks like its way over aggressive.

[ssurjap]

Thanks for the tip. I don't use any of them at the moment as my website doesn't really get page views much :). Interestingly enough, if I try to go to any of the sites you mention, it gets blocked by Vipre (my firewall/antispyware/antivirus­) :).

[OHtheFAM]

Very cool and helpful, I will have to check those sites out!

[Urgo6667]

@STOPJABBAINGON :) Yeah I saw the same drop last fall as well with youtube usage. Don't worry though, it'll pick back up :)

[Urgo6667]

@MsPrincessCelestia sup