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Re: Ask HN : Please Suggest a Real Time Web Analytics Tool

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_sgo4 wrote: post #19

You basically have four real options for real time analytics, and they all either cost money, or are in beta and soon will cost money. 1. Chartbeat. $10/month. Pretty slick, honestly, especially if you only care about "right now". 2. Woopra. Free while in private beta. Getting accepted into the beta typically takes several weeks. Used to see tons of complaints about bugs and inaccurate stats. Seems to be less of an i…

Good Job Done !!!! Clicky is nice specially that SPY Feature rocks. Just have a query does the Daily Pageviews limit are very stringent.

Re: Ask HN : Please Suggest a Real Time Web Analytics Tool

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Post by richesh »

_sgo4 wrote: post #19

You basically have four real options for real time analytics, and they all either cost money, or are in beta and soon will cost money. 1. Chartbeat. $10/month. Pretty slick, honestly, especially if you only care about "right now". 2. Woopra. Free while in private beta. Getting accepted into the beta typically takes several weeks. Used to see tons of complaints about bugs and inaccurate stats. Seems to be less of an i…

Great job and a great product! I do have one concern which is that the site is very slow and the scripts on our pages take considerable milliseconds to get. on an average twice as much as Google Analytics. Any reason for this? Also, if we make it so that the scripts load after the page has loaded, will this cause any issues?

I guess I should post this on support

Re: Ask HN : Please Suggest a Real Time Web Analytics Tool

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Post by timr »

_sgo4 wrote: post #17
timr wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...unless you hit the upper limit of 5,000 simultaneous users on your site. Then, it's only sort of awesome.

And how many sites would that ever apply to? Like, 10 total sites?

It applies to us. Maybe it's a bigger problem than you think.

(Edit: I just looked at clicky. It's great, and looks like it has a lot of features that we'd use, but your most expensive plan isn't even close to the capacity we would need.)

Re: Ask HN : Please Suggest a Real Time Web Analytics Tool

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Post by _sgo4 »

theone wrote: post #31
_sgo4 wrote: post #19

You basically have four real options for real time analytics, and they all either cost money, or are in beta and soon will cost money. 1. Chartbeat. $10/month. Pretty slick, honestly, especially if you only care about "right now". 2. Woopra. Free while in private beta. Getting accepted into the beta typically takes several weeks. Used to see tons of complaints about bugs and inaccurate stats. Seems to be less of an i…

Good Job Done !!!! Clicky is nice specially that SPY Feature rocks. Just have a query does the Daily Pageviews limit are very stringent.

Thanks. If you compare us to any other analytics servic that charges money, I think you will find our prices for the amount of page views you can track are amongst the very lowest in the business. In fact, as far as I know, we are the lowest. I invite you to prove me wrong!

Re: Ask HN : Please Suggest a Real Time Web Analytics Tool

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Post by _sgo4 »

richesh wrote: post #32
_sgo4 wrote: post #19

You basically have four real options for real time analytics, and they all either cost money, or are in beta and soon will cost money. 1. Chartbeat. $10/month. Pretty slick, honestly, especially if you only care about "right now". 2. Woopra. Free while in private beta. Getting accepted into the beta typically takes several weeks. Used to see tons of complaints about bugs and inaccurate stats. Seems to be less of an i…

Great job and a great product! I do have one concern which is that the site is very slow and the scripts on our pages take considerable milliseconds to get. on an average twice as much as Google Analytics. Any reason for this? Also, if we make it so that the scripts load after the page has loaded, will this cause any issues? I guess I should post this on support

Unlike Google, we are a small company and don't have millions to throw at hosting data centers all around the world on insanely fast connections. So it is very understandable that our code loads a bit slower. It is certainly a high priorty that our service has as little effect as possible on third party sites, but competing with Google is tough business!

Re: Ask HN : Please Suggest a Real Time Web Analytics Tool

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Post by _sgo4 »

timr wrote: post #34
_sgo4 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And how many sites would that ever apply to? Like, 10 total sites?

It applies to us. Maybe it's a bigger problem than you think. (Edit: I just looked at clicky. It's great, and looks like it has a lot of features that we'd use, but your most expensive plan isn't even close to the capacity we would need.)

I dont think it's a big problem :) Justin.tv is certainly amongst the top 1% of sites in the world, in terms of traffic. If you have a site that has more than 5,000 simultaneous users, you are a very very large site. There are very few sites that can claim that kind of traffic.

There aren't many products meant for tracking a site like that, and the ones that do cost thousands per month. You are paying just $10 for chartbeat. They are probably losing a lot of money on your account just on the bandwidth consumed.

I mean in the nicest possible way, but we don't have any desire to track sites that big. The largest we allow is 500,000 daily page views, and sites that big are paying us at leat $100 per month.

Re: Ask HN : Please Suggest a Real Time Web Analytics Tool

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Post by richesh »

_sgo4 wrote: post #36
richesh wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great job and a great product! I do have one concern which is that the site is very slow and the scripts on our pages take considerable milliseconds to get. on an average twice as much as Google Analytics. Any reason for this? Also, if we make it so that the scripts load after the page has loaded, will this cause any issues? I guess I should post this on support

Unlike Google, we are a small company and don't have millions to throw at hosting data centers all around the world on insanely fast connections. So it is very understandable that our code loads a bit slower. It is certainly a high priorty that our service has as little effect as possible on third party sites, but competing with Google is tough business!

What if you put the scripts on Amazon EC2 (S3 or CloudFront), this will alleviate your server load and put it on Amazon's backbone.

My startup uses Amazon EC2 for hosting etc, and so far I've been very happy. We are not big either, actually we are a two-man team and definitely smaller than even you guys :) But Amazon seems affordable.

Just a thought, but no worries I think the service is still tremendous. Keep up the great job!

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