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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ObservePoint

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AObservePoint’s Web Governance platform automates website scans, from the highest traffic pages and user paths to the dark corners of a company’s web presence. The software provides the ability to see what’s performing below acceptable standards, trace it back to the source, and quickly see a path to improvement.

    $598

    per month

    Parse.ly

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AParse.ly is a content optimization platform for online publishers. It provides in-depth analytics and helps maximize the performance of the digital content. It features a dashboard geared for editorial and business staff and an API that can be used by a product team to create personalized or contextual experiences on a website.

    $499

    per month

    Pricing
    ObservePointParse.ly
    Editions & Modules
    Essentials
    $599
    per month up to 4,000 page scans /month
    Professional
    $2,400
    per month up to 20,000 page scans /month
    Enterprise
    Custom ($0.0325 - $0.11 / page)
    Starting at 20,000+ page scans /month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ObservePointParse.ly
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
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    ObservePointParse.ly
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    ObservePoint
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    Key User Insights
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    99%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    96%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    ObservePointParse.ly
    Web Analytics
    Comparison of Web Analytics features of ObservePoint and Parse.ly
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    Ratings
    Parse.ly
    7.6
    7 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Lead Conversion Tracking00 Ratings6.23 Ratings
    Bounce Rate Measurement00 Ratings6.85 Ratings
    Device and Browser Reporting00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
    Pageview Tracking00 Ratings8.26 Ratings
    Event Tracking00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
    Reporting in real-time00 Ratings8.46 Ratings
    Referral Source Tracking00 Ratings7.66 Ratings
    Customizable Dashboards00 Ratings7.66 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    ObservePointParse.ly
    Small Businesses
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    Matomo Analytics
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Lead Forensics
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Chartbeat
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ObservePointParse.ly
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    7.8
    (82 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (32 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.7
    (35 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.8
    (35 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    9.1
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    Configurability
    9.1
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    Ease of integration
    9.1
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    Product Scalability
    9.1
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    ObservePointParse.ly
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ObservePoint
    ObservePoint is a great tool for automating page testing and standardizing campaigns to observe accurate customer insights. You can identify customer mapping journey. They also help in data protection and insights which are very important and essential these days. They should work more on easy interface designs. Overall, it is the best.
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    Parse.ly
    Parse.ly is a great tool for publishers who want to track engagement and audience behaviour across websites. With Parse.ly, we can easily track metrics like pageviews, time spent on page, and scroll depth to see which content is resonating with our audience and optimize our content strategy accordingly. Our marketers found Parse.ly to be an excellent tool for tracking the effectiveness of our campaigns. We can use Parse.ly to track metrics like referral sources, conversion rates, and engagement by audience segment to see which channels and tactics are driving the most engagement and conversions.
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    Pros
    ObservePoint
    • The UI for ObservePoint is intuitive and robust. This makes training new engineers and using the product easy and productive.
    • All Audit exports are formatted as tab delimited text files making the data easy to analyze and manipulate in a Spreadsheet or database.
    • The list of tag vendors that are discoverable is comprehensive making it easy to interrogate most any tagging implementation.
    • Standard reporting within the UI is robust and easy to consume.
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    Parse.ly
    • Firstly, the platform is super easy to use, it is user-friendly and easy to navigate through.
    • Secondly, the platform also provides you the option to use filters to your best fit and adjust the filters according to what data you want to look at.
    • Thirdly, it enables the user to have live feedback on their articles and see what can be improved going forward to address the need of the readers.
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    Cons
    ObservePoint
    • Page details, although interesting, are not very useful as the data is too granular and not possible to integrate with other analytics data for insights.
    • Some of the custom tagging may be a little complicated, so sometimes we need an engineer or an ObservePoint tech to help us out.
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    Parse.ly
    • A more readily understandable visual guide to a visitor's pathway through your site would help understand what keeps a reader on-site.
    • The total page view number for the day should be more readily visible--on the overview page, not just by going to Posts>Historical.
    • Maintain the archive for longer than a year under all plans--it's a shame to lose year-on-year data quickly.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ObservePoint
    ObservePoint has a robust solution that is well supported and is continually innovating to meet new business and technology needs.
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    Parse.ly
    As an employee, this is difficult for me to comment as I am not directly funding or making these business decisions. However, it is a tool many get on with for surface level data that is useful to editorial teams.
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    Usability
    ObservePoint
    It's easy to navigate and learn. The reporting and output are intuitive and robust features for finding and identifying actionable insight.
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    Parse.ly
    The Parse.ly platform is very user-friendly and easy to use. User management is simple, and reporting setup only takes a few minutes. They provide very helpful documentation for implementing the scripts on your site and have great customer support to help with custom development such as implementing their content recommendation engine.
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    Reliability and Availability
    ObservePoint
    I've only experienced one system availability issue in the 3 years we've been using it.
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    Parse.ly
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    Performance
    ObservePoint
    Sometimes it can get a bit slow when auditing particularly huge sites but recent upgrades in infrastructure have done a lot to mitigate this behavior.
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    Parse.ly
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    Support Rating
    ObservePoint
    Support is very strong indeed and has been consistent over the last 4 years. They are also friendly and tag nerds like me!
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    Parse.ly
    I rate this question this way solely because I haven't requested any support. I feel where I will eventually get support would be when we take Parse.ly up on some training that is being offered. We are looking to do that at some point after the first of the year and when our schedules support it.
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    In-Person Training
    ObservePoint
    Instructor was knowledgeable and delivered the content well.
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    Parse.ly
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    ObservePoint
    It's easy to find the information you need when you need it and it is easy to consume.
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    Parse.ly
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    Implementation Rating
    ObservePoint
    Start with small audits until you have determined what you might want to filter out.
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    Parse.ly
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    Alternatives Considered
    ObservePoint
    I have not used any other product other than ObservePoint for my requirements. there are a number of features for which it has proved helpful. Technology Governance ensures our data collection tools and processes are executing as planned, so our organization can make better decisions based on better data and so on
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    Parse.ly
    Parse.ly does pretty well compared to Chartbeat, particularly when it comes to historical information and analysis options that are easy for employees to use after some short training. The onboarding for Parse.ly is intuitive, and the scheduled reports take away basically all of the inconvenience associated with regular metrics reviewing. But Chartbeat wins in its social audience tracking because it can source traffic to a specific social post, which can show you exactly how your audience is coming to your content and where you need to put your content to be sure you get that audience.
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    Scalability
    ObservePoint
    I have not reached an unreasonable product limitation as of yet.
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    Parse.ly
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    ObservePoint
    • ObservePoint has helped us quickly (within minutes) catch when a process or pathing on the website breaks, which allows us to fix it quickly. Whether technical/dev or analytics issues, without ObservePoint, they could have been undetected for weeks.
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    Parse.ly
    • Sometimes in meetings our editorial director will point out stories that didn't perform well. To us, that means readers don't really care about the topic, so we'll pivot away from writing about that in the future. That might not be "business objectives" though.
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    ScreenShots

    Parse.ly Screenshots

    Screenshot of Overview in full-screen mode: Many Parse.ly pages, like the Overview, are TV-ready. Keep your entire team up-to-date with live, full-screen dashboards on TVs in your office.Screenshot of Overview screen: See a snapshot of what your audience is paying attention to today so you can make fast decisions about what content to produce or distribute. Customize it to show only what your team cares about by filtering it to a particular author, section, or tag. You can pick what stats and listings are displayed.Screenshot of Real-time posts page: See what’s gathering steam so you can capitalize on attention to every post, campaign, or section.
Real-time data includes the last 24 hours and updates every five seconds. It can be seen, filtered, and sorted on most screens.Screenshot of Historical posts page: Explore historical trends by post, author, section, topic, referrer, or campaign. Compare today’s performance to last week, month, or year.Screenshot of Campaign tracking: Easily tie in your off-site promotion to engagement with your on-site content using UTM parameters.Screenshot of Multi-channel tracking: Track all your content in one place, no matter where it lives.
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