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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Chartbeat

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AChartbeat delivers real-time analytics, insights, and transformative tools for content teams around the world, to help improve audience engagement, inform editorial decisions, and increase loyalty.N/A

    Geckoboard

    Score9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Geckoboard enables users to create real time dashboards using data from over 80 cloud services. It integrates with other products such as: AWeber, Basecamp, Campaign Monitor and HubSpot.

    $35

    per month

    Pricing
    ChartbeatGeckoboard
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $35
    per month
    Team
    $159
    per month
    Team Plus
    $275
    per month
    Company
    $599
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ChartbeatGeckoboard
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsChartbeat pricing is based on monthly site page views. Discounts are applied to multi-year contracts. The Basic Plan includes the Real-time Dashboard, Historical Dashboard, Heads Up Display, Reports, Big Board, iOS and Android app, and Real-time API endpoints. The Plus Plan includes all of the Basic Plan features, plus ONE of the following Premium features: Headline Testing, Advanced Queries, or Multi-Site View. The Premium Plan includes all of the Basic Plan features, plus ALL Premium features: Headline Testing, Advanced Queries, Multi-Site View, and enterprise-level support and custom trainings.—
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    Community Pulse
    ChartbeatGeckoboard
    Considered Both Products
    Chartbeat, Inc.
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    Geckoboard
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    47 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    46 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    20 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
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    Features
    ChartbeatGeckoboard
    Web Analytics
    Comparison of Web Analytics features of Chartbeat and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Chartbeat
    7.8
    15 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Geckoboard
    -
    Ratings
    Lead Conversion Tracking6.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bounce Rate Measurement6.89 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device and Browser Reporting7.714 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pageview Tracking8.913 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event Tracking8.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting in real-time9.414 Ratings00 Ratings
    Referral Source Tracking8.414 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Dashboards6.712 Ratings00 Ratings
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Chartbeat and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Chartbeat
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    9.3
    5 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Chartbeat and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Chartbeat
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    7.7
    5 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Chartbeat and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Chartbeat
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    9.0
    5 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Chartbeat and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Chartbeat
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    8.7
    5 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Chartbeat and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Chartbeat
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    7.8
    5 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings6.12 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Chartbeat and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Chartbeat
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    9.5
    5 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Chartbeat and Geckoboard
    Feature
    Chartbeat
    -
    Ratings
    Geckoboard
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    25% above category average
    REST API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
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    ChartbeatGeckoboard
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.9 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ChartbeatGeckoboard
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (69 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (9 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (60 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (10 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ChartbeatGeckoboard
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Chartbeat, Inc.
    The main point of benefit is the realtime data. This is vital to our team as we are publishing a lot of content per day, so we have a busy homepage to manage and it's important to know which content is performing well. We also like to get an understanding as quickly as possible - which Chartbeat offers - of where traffic is coming from. Often we will see an example where a page is getting high traffic from Google, for example, and we know that might not need to be placed so prominently on the homepage because the traffic is arriving to us externally anyway. Without that depth of understanding what is performing best and why - updated immediately, unlike in Google Analytics now - our homepage would not be as well optimised for users coming to us direct
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    Geckoboard
    Great value for the money. Excellent for smaller agencies with multiple projects and teams in a smaller space. We can quickly roll out mobile displays to help with a particular deployment push or monitoring a clients website engagement. It's also useful for showing live data without requiring analytics to run reports from a CRM, etc.
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    Pros
    Chartbeat, Inc.
    • Provides easy at-a-glance look at what people are reading right now
    • Heads-up Display allows you to make sure the homepage is showing the content people want to read
    • Headline testing tool provides fascinating insight into what makes people read a story and improves headline-writing ability
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    Geckoboard
    • User self-help - the video tutorials and a robust publicly accessible knowledgebase.
    • Geckoboard can aggregate data from a number of other apps into a singular dashboard.
    • Sleek, dark UI.
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    Cons
    Chartbeat, Inc.
    • Source of traffic needs improvement. Search and social make sense, but "internal" and "links" is a grey area. It would be helpful to define those with an organization and provide an information icon so users can easily remember what each of those buckets is tracking.
    • More ways to customize the real-time board. For example, with video content, that's great that I can see a user has started a video, but what is the completion rate, was that only on O&O or can that track Facebook, too?
    • Would like to see demo (age) information included as a way to slice the data so I can see what's working with my older and younger demo.
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    Geckoboard
    • A bit more flexibility in the number of columns would be nice.
    • Ability to scale to mobile device (web).
    • App capabilities are missing on Android.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Chartbeat, Inc.
    I gave Chartbeat a 5 for a renewal rating, because, while it delivers clear and understandable content, Google Analytics also provides many of the same features for free. For a small to medium website, I believe it would be more cost effective to use Google Analytics. A website with a high amount of traffic, however, could merit spending the money on Chartbeat to maximize their potential.
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    Geckoboard
    My company did not renew due to changes in the organization.
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    Usability
    Chartbeat, Inc.
    I am able to "set it and forget it," keeping it up on my monitor for either constant checking or just keeping an eye on the numbers during the day. I'm also able to keep track of what times are perfect to post a story and which stories rack up the most traffic.
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    Geckoboard
    With a simple interface and available templates, creating basic dashboards is easy. Obviously depending on the data you want to visualize, there may be higher learning curves. That being said, they have a huge amount of integrations and extensible frameworks. If you are using anything made in the past ten years there is an API function or integration that can get it talking to the platform. As such, it's pretty easy to hit the main data points you want and get it on a cheap display in front of your team.
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    Support Rating
    Chartbeat, Inc.
    I have had limited experience of support for Chartbeat but whenever I have needed help it has been there. Recently there was an issue of seeing different forms of data in real time - app and otherwise effectively, and the issue was being clearly dealt with and communicated back to us.
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    Geckoboard
    The support levels vary based on the level of plan that you have but that's to be expected. Virtually everything except the Enterprise plan has basic chat/email support. While they are responsive they are not going to be much assistance in helping you figure out API calls or implementing 3rd party integrations. That is to be expected and the support community can pretty much get you in the right direction if you look.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Chartbeat, Inc.
    Omnilytics is more robust, detailed, and catered for an intermediate media user, while I think Chartbeat is a more user-friendly and beginner-oriented piece of technology. That being said, there is an impressive amount of lift for Chartbeat, and it's evident that simplicity is the key to using a software daily (which is absolutely the point in the content world).
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    Geckoboard
    Domo is more robust. We do use both because Geckoboard is really easy to show the rest of our team without the need for additional licenses.
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    Return on Investment
    Chartbeat, Inc.
    • It has helped us save time in report generation and performance analysis.
    • By helping us evaluate our contributors, we're able to get our money's worth.
    • Seeing our numbers on the Big Board fosters healthy competition among brands, motivating us to distribute our stories better.
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    Geckoboard
    • While we originally used this as an internal IS tool, we eventually have expanded it to be used by nearly every department.
    • Because pricing is monthly, we can grow or decrease our usage based on our current client needs.
    • Because it is low cost and easy to deploy, we can utilize it in place of considerable resources in analytics and reporting by delivering snapshots of data without pulling reports.
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    ScreenShots

    Chartbeat Screenshots

    Screenshot of Big Board: For newsrooms, the leaderboard-style visualization shows the top stories on the biggest screen.Screenshot of Real-time dashboard: Displays how an audience is connecting with content in the moment – across platforms, channels, and devices.Screenshot of Historical Dashboard: To assess content performance, KPIs, and valuable trends over the long term.Screenshot of Heads Up Display: Shows which homepage articles are the top performers, how stories are trending up or down in traffic, and how far visitors are scrolling down the page.Screenshot of Video Dashboard: Reveals how video content captures viewer attention.Screenshot of Conversion Dashboard: Tracks conversion metrics and insights.

    Geckoboard Screenshots

    Screenshot of Create live KPI dashboards in minutes. No coding or training required.Screenshot of Easily pull in real-time data from over 80 different tools, including spreadsheets and databases, as well as popular business tools like Salesforce, Zendesk, Google Analytics and many more.Screenshot of Anyone can build custom dashboards that make data and KPIs look professional and are easy for everyone on the team to understand at a glance.Screenshot of Get important numbers in front of the team or stakeholders, whether they're in the office or WFH.Screenshot of Every part of your organisation can surface metrics that matter to them and show progress towards their goals.