If you’re at all obsessive about who’s visiting your web site, what they’re looking at, and whether or not your visits are trending up or down or sideways, then my advice is don’t — don’t even *think* about — hooking up with the Woopra beta program.
Let me be more clear: Woopra is crack for the web stats junkie. To say merely that Woopra offers a real-time view of who’s on your web site and what they’re doing there is to short-change the product by 99%. It’s got eye-candy of all sorts, from its geographical world-view to its jazzy trend-lines to its scrolling ticker of current trend factoids. Oh… and did I mention that you can start a live chat with a web visitor if you like?
Sure I’ve got some bones to pick… nits, really. For example, while Woopra *does* have a Mac client it requires the latest beta of Java, which in turn runs only on latest version of OSX, to which I haven’t yet migrated. And so I’m running the Woopra client in a Windows XP window in Parallels’ Coherence mode. (Come to think of it, that’s pretty slick, too.)
So go ahead and take a look at Woopra if you must… but don’t plan to get anything else done for a while.
And don’t say I didn’t warn you.
I am still pending approval for jimseven.com for my woopra account. It looks so purty….
Hi, James!
Woopra really is quite spiffy. It reads a bit information-dense on the standard “dashboard” view, but even then it’s still quite readable, and configurable, too.
By the way, nice to meet you — finally — at the SCAA thing. 😉