Chartbeat vs Convert Experiences

• Instant insight for newsrooms: What are readers reading, on what platform, how long are they staying?
• Headline testing: Allows us to try multiple versions of the 'sell' for the story to understand what interests different sorts of readers
• Segmentation of audience: Allows us to understand not only where readers come from (search, social, direct, etc.) but also how loyal they are and how long they stay
• Proper engagement time: Too often our industry obsesses on dwell time, but Chartbeat's active engaged time gives us a true sense of how long we really engage people for
• Simple actions: For example, the Chartbeat overlay tells us where people on average leave a story, so it helps us take actions quickly

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• Easy test setup with lots of preconfigured options and simple enough to construct your own.
• Awesome Support team! Can't say enough about their responsiveness and willingness to dig in and review my test set up if I encounter any issues (rarely though).
• Love the test snapshots. I've used other products in the past that didn't provide this simple feature.
• Occasionally I need one of our developers to assist with test setup and their feedback has been very positive.

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• The service could be broken down to provide page view figures for individual tags on our website metadata
• The dashboard for each day could offer more detail on performance compared to previous days/last week - how many people viewed articles of the same topic in a similar time period

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• You will immediately experience frustration (at least as a developer using JS Conditions) with the CDN times. Experiments often don't appear to you after saving new JS for up to 5 minutes. This can be crazy painful if you're going from Local Development > Staging > Production.
• There are some minor UI quirks inside the experiment editor if you're using the more advanced features like we do.
• It's almost mandatory that you're onboarded by a human. There's so much to this tool it'd be pretty hard for you to just dive in like some other apps. If you're like me that can be a bit frustrating. Some people need that though and enjoy the human touch, so I hate even giving this as a negative.

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• The most positive impact is that it gives us realtime outage emails — faster than our server provider does. So we know within seconds if one of our sites is down. This has proven an invaluable part of Chartbeat
• Another great feature of Chartbeat is the multiple sites dashboard, so I can see traffic to all my sites at once.

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• Using Convert has allowed us to make quick decisions on site edits and price changes. Seeing and sharing quick results makes our operations much more profitable.
• Connecting the tests with Shopify has produced very valuable and timely results that we can act upon as soon as we see statistically significant results.

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