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What is Chartbeat?
Chartbeat 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.
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- Reporting in real-time (10)8.989%
- Pageview Tracking (10)8.585%
- Referral Source Tracking (10)8.383%
- Device and Browser Reporting (10)7.777%
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What is Chartbeat?
Chartbeat, a content intelligence platform for publishers, empowers media companies to build loyal audiences with real-time and historical editorial analytics across desktop, social, and mobile platforms. Chartbeat helps digital publishing organizations understand what, within their content, is keeping people engaged. Partnering with over 60,000 media brands across 70+ countries, Chartbeat’s real-time and historical dashboards, in-depth headline testing and in-page optimization tools, and reporting help media organizations understand, measure, and build business value from the attention earned by their written and video content.
Chartbeat Features
- Supported: Real-time and historical analytics dashboards
- Supported: Headline Testing
- Supported: Image Testing
- Supported: Reporting Tools
- Supported: Raw Data Pipeline
- Supported: Conversions Dashboard
- Supported: Recommendation Engine
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
| Supported Countries | All |
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Chartbeat 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.
Reviewers rate Reporting in real-time highest, with a score of 8.9.
The most common users of Chartbeat are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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July 16, 2021
Pros and Cons of Chartbeat
I have not used others like it.
January 08, 2021
Chartbeat Realtime in real time
Chartbeat's realtime its superior to all tools we have. It really makes the difference. We are in calls with Chartbeat for raw data, this is a new product and it will be open a lot of interesting information with raw data in real-time.
January 05, 2021
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December 18, 2020
Satisfaction!
- Google Analytics and comScore Digital Analytix (discontinued)
More accuracy in real time metrics its a value for Chartbeat.
December 15, 2020
Chartbeat remains the gold standard in tracking realtime web traffic
Chartbeat really remains the gold standard in the tracking, measurement and display of realtime engagement metrics. If your site has sufficient audience benefit from immediate changes in content programming, display and design, it's a great tool with a highly refined and intuitive user experience. Plus, it's API allows for broad integration.
December 10, 2020
A powerful and surprising (in a good way) tool
I think that one complements the other.
December 02, 2020
Great insights for newsrooms
Google Analytics gives me a better overview of my site's performance, I think; however, when it comes to real-time insights, I always turn to Chartbeat.
November 30, 2020
Chartbeat: Best-in-class real-time audience metrics
Larger analytics suites like Google Analytics and Omniture simply do not provide the kind of real-time data that Chartbeat does. I have used Parse.ly which has some interesting real-time features as well; I would say Parse.ly is similar in terms of ease of use, though Chartbeat does give you the feeling of using a best-in-class product.
November 29, 2020
MyReview
I haven't used or evaluated others but we use Google Analytics too. I find Chartbeat more user friendly - and rely on the live numbers more than in GA. However, for more qualitative data, over longer periods of time, I use GA because of the search functionality - and that we measure targets this way.
Google Analytics doesn't provide as useful real-time intelligence and has more of a lag. It's also very complex and has unnecessary data. Chartbeat is instant and more user friendly.
November 19, 2020
As important a tool in today's modern newsroom as a notepad and pen
Simpler, more effective, real-time tool with broader accessibility for team
November 19, 2020
Chartbeat is THE tool for publishers
November 16, 2020
Invaluable tool for journalists
October 16, 2020
Chartbeat -- best realtime data for newsrooms
Chartbeat has a more useful and generally more active interface, and provides more instant insight.
We have looked at other products, including Parse.ly, in the past. Chartbeat is closer to our needs.
I've used Google Real Time, which I do not find as easy to use and track trends and plan content strategy.
In a previous job I had use of Parse.ly and, while at the time I thought it was a very useful tool, it wasn't as detailed as the Chartbeat metrics. Chartbeat gives you more insight into concurrents on your website at a given time, rather than just individual stories, and when using the historical tool also provides wider detail on how each individual news article performed. This includes average engaged time, whether it performed best internally, on social or on search, and details how many page views that article generated. Chartbeat's integration with your website is also a useful tool for knowing when to move stories further up a page, based on its real-time interaction.
August 25, 2020
Chartbeat is the go-to software for real-time results.
I prefer Chartbeat for its easy to use interface and its more accurate snapshot of real-time results. By including some measures, like not counting users who haven't scrolled or moused over a period of time, it provides a more selective display of website activity at any given time.
August 24, 2020
I would be unhappy without Chartbeat.
I don't know any others.
August 19, 2020
How I use Chartbeat all day every day
I have used Google Analytics' realtime tool but I thought it was less user friendly than Chartbeat and did not measure site performance in the same way. The concurrents number was much higher due to how it was measured which I felt gave a less reliable picture than Chartbeat.
November 30, 2018
Chartbeat is the best realtime traffic tracker out there!
We often compare Google Analytics realtime with Chartbeat, but Chartbeat is better because it gives a more clear breakdown of where our traffic is coming from.
March 28, 2018
My Chartbeat Review
I didn't choose Chartbeat... we just have it on a wall board for everyone to see.
July 26, 2017
Chartbeat Review
Chartbeat is great because it gives you numbers fast. It can be left up on a screen all day and not touched and will still give you facts that you want or need about how many people are on the website at a given time. It is reliable and very easy to understand.
May 17, 2014
March to the Chartbeat of Your Own Drum
Score 6 out of 10
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May 05, 2014
Chartbeat's Simple Real-time Analytics
Score 8 out of 10
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GA is free, but often hard to use. Allowing access to GA for a client can often lead to a ton of unnecessary conversations like, "Hey why is this page doing so poorly." For a 30,000 ft view, you can give your executive what they want to see without opening the entire kimono.
I currently use Gaug.es. It's cheaper and a bit more simplified. But I like it's quick read format that allows me to view all 10 of my clients sites at once.
I currently use Gaug.es. It's cheaper and a bit more simplified. But I like it's quick read format that allows me to view all 10 of my clients sites at once.