Chartbeat Reviews & Ratings 2023

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Chartbeat

Overview

What is Chartbeat?

Chartbeat provides real-time web analytics, but is specifically designed for magazine and newspaper publishers making the switch from print to digital. The product tracks where traffic is coming from and helps maximize traffic and engagement.

Chartbeat: what we needed to improve our website

9 out of 10

April 18, 2022

Thanks to this software we have considerably improved the traffic on our website, improving the content we publish, attracting more …

Chartbeat provides easy-to-use, real-time data

9 out of 10

December 14, 2021

I currently use Chartbeat to monitor which fundraisers people are currently viewing. Chartbeat allows us to stay on top of the fundraisers …

Top of the charts, hard to beat!

8 out of 10

December 09, 2021

Chartbeat is essential for tracking my and my colleagues' article performance, user retention, and source of visitation (where readers …

If you want numbers, you need Chartbeat

9 out of 10

November 30, 2021

Chartbeat offers the best real-time page view and unique browser tracking. It's an excellent tool to track the impact a story is having on …

Give me a (Chart) beat!

10 out of 10

November 10, 2021

My team uses it to gauge what users are reading and how to rank stories on our website. Chartbeat is displayed prominently in our newsroom …

Great option for social!

8 out of 10

August 13, 2021

We used Chartbeat to see what was doing well on social media platforms and our website in order to better curate content that will be …

Easy way to steer traffic!

9 out of 10

August 09, 2021

Our company uses Chartbeat to track trending online content that will translate to our other departments' use of promoting those stories …

Useful real-time analysis to optimise performance and develop employees

9 out of 10

August 09, 2021

We use Chartbeat across the editorial departments in our organisation to track performance of pages on our website in Real-Time, along …

The messiah of content analytics

8 out of 10

August 06, 2021

We use Chartbeat across the company to track user engagement on our news website. We use Chartbeat to track the performance of pages and …

Great tool for journalists

9 out of 10

August 04, 2021

We use Chartbeat at WKMG to track user engagement on stories on ClickOrlando.com, test headlines on the homepage, and make decisions on …

Chartbeat is an integral part in my daily workflow

10 out of 10

August 02, 2021

We track current web users and what stories are trending on our website. Mainly used by the website department but the whole newsroom has …

Decent

9 out of 10

July 27, 2021

I use it to track analytics of editorial content that is published on the website. It is being used across the department, and is likely …

Here's How Chartbeat Informed My Content Strategy

10 out of 10

July 16, 2021

Each brand uses Chartbeat, but I can only speak to how my brand uses it specifically. Everyone on editorial and social has Chartbeat open …

Chartbeat continues to deliver

9 out of 10

July 16, 2021

Used to track performance of our articles within sections of our digital platforms. Helps us clarify what specific headlines work to draw …

A very useful tool

10 out of 10

July 16, 2021

Chartbeat is used by our whole organisation to track page views and find out which articles are performing well across our news sites.

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How Chartbeat Differs From Its Competitors

Real-Time Data

It analysis the content of the page, through the analysis of historical data or in real-time.

Content Optimization

It allows integration with important software such as WordPress, Slack, and Brightcove.

Engagement Metrics

Undoubtedly we have increased our profits, by having more web traffic on our website.

Real-Time Data

Having access to real-time audience data with zero lag is an essential feature and one of the highlights of Chartbeat. With this component, I am able to adjust articles in real-time (ex: adding imagery, breaking apart blocky text paragraphs, or editing SEO headlines) to further bump up my story on …

Content Optimization

My web content performance has significantly risen since using Chartbeat, but the key is you have to USE it and use it often. If you have no intention of looking at this daily, then try something else. The benefits are in real-time engagement metrics showing you exactly where you need to tailor a …

Engagement Metrics

The reader engagement metrics (including reader loyalty and engaged time) are something I look at daily and in historical reports. If I see a loyal reader is only spending 30 seconds on a story that took a lot of reporting and typically takes 7 minutes to read, then I know there is some adjustment …

Real-Time Data

It's the best. You are able to see what users are reading to the second. It helps move stories around on your site to make sure the story doing well gets more prominence.

Content Optimization

The engagement metric helps us change the layout of stories on our site to make sure the ones getting read and the ones that could do a lot better get more prominence

Engagement Metrics

Yes, mobile-first. Chartbeat showed us that more than 80% of our readers are on a mobile

Real-Time Data

The real-time data allows us to manage our site on the fly, giving more users stories of interest as they're developing. It's key to stay on top of things in the breaking news cycle that we live in.

Content Optimization

As mentioned previously, the HUD allows us to A/B test headlines, a huge asset to my team. We often debate which headline will work best, and Chartbeat gives us the answer in 5-10 minutes, a great tool to have at your disposal.

Engagement Metrics

We've found that robust articles, full of links, graphs, charts, videos, and more do the best. Chartbeat has shown us that, thus allowing me to task my team with more in-depth coverage.

Real-Time Data

We get to up our monthly listener rate because I can see what posts our listeners interact with the most and act accordingly which has made our listeners feel heard and valued and important to the content curating process.

Content Optimization

I use the engagement metrics the most considering I use it mostly for social media seeing as we're a podcast primarily. So that way I can gauge whether followers prefer certain pictures over others or how comments change based on the content and what that means for our curation process.

Engagement Metrics

This has less-so been a make or break metric for us because we're primarily a podcast so we used Chartbeat mostly for social media posts but when we do use reader engagement metrics its' helpful to know how long readers stay on our page and if we have recurring readership because it's a good gauge …

Real-Time Data

It's fantastic to know what our readers are interacting with at a certain time, or what story is getting traction to open avenues to further story digging. It also allows us to step up promotion or post it more to get more traffic.

Content Optimization

I haven't ventured too much into using it for analyzing engagement, but I am able to easily use the real-time function to see what is being interacted with the most at a certain point.

Engagement Metrics

Concurrents definitely is something we look at to help organize the homepage and learn more about what is being selected by readers. It also shows us what old content may be resurfacing, signaling to us what else we can post online to fit the search.

Real-Time Data

It ensures we can react quickly to any stories which are attracting particular interest, and we can also look at individual articles and pages to see if there is a point where people are leaving the page, and which links they are clicking on, to ensure we are maximising every visit.

Content Optimization

The Heads-Up Display and testing tools provide vital insights into what our readers are interested in and enable those that use it to get better at choosing the right content and writing the right headlines to optimise performance.

Engagement Metrics

We look at the pages read by loyal users to help judge the content we should particularly focus on.

Real-Time Data

We have benefitted from Chartbeat in the sense that we could take informed decisions and customise our approach towards content that users might want to engage more with.

Content Optimization

As I have mentioned earlier, we have used the results of the Chartbeat metrics to decide what kind of content does well on our website and that has helped us produce such kinds of contents.

Real-Time Data

It helps us determine what types of stories we should pursue in the future.

Content Optimization

When something does well via Chartbeat, we can use that information to assign stories.

Engagement Metrics

When something does well via Chartbeat, we can use that information to assign stories. Or, we can decide if we follow up on a story.

Real-Time Data

We're able to adjust story placement on the site based off user popularity. We also sometimes include certain stories in newsletters or in push alerts based off of seeing the real-time success in Chartbeat.

Engagement Metrics

We have adjusted the way we lay out a story page and include internal links based off data we've seen in Chartbeat.

Real-Time Data

Being able to see when website visitors interact with content in the moment is helpful because I can use that data to then refresh the content when it is performing badly, or provide supplementary content when it is doing well. This means that the benefits of one good article can often lead to …

Content Optimization

I have used the engagement metrics to refresh headlines when they were not performing as expected, and used Chartbeat to compare and contrast that performance with other, similar content. Using this, content that might not have performed well has been edited and changed rapidly, and performed …

Engagement Metrics

Using Chartbeat’s reader engagement metrics has influence the content we have published because we are able to target it to audiences that we already know read the content, thereby increasing the chance of its success. It has also helped develop the format of content in order to increase engaged …

Real-Time Data

This is such a critical feature because it has helped in so many ways. First, we can see what's working at any given moment and therefore have a sense of what's trending. Secondly, we can see what to put money behind. If something is taking off on social, we can boost it and capture new audience, …

Content Optimization

Yes, we've used the engagement metrics to test our content and improve performance by tweaking words in headlines—A/B testing headlines, promoting stories that are doing well, and even promoting content on other platforms, especially new content when we see it do well on a particular platform. We …

Engagement Metrics

Chartbeat’s reader engagement metrics has influenced the type of content we publish by giving us data insights that we can use to make informed decisions on what to create next. A great example of this is content we've created around small town travel. We saw our first small town story take off on …

Real-Time Data

Allows us to find out which stories can be shared across multiple sites and how likely they are to have good page views.

Content Optimization

Allows us to find out which stories can be republished on different sites if it has a wider appeal outside one area.

Engagement Metrics

It helps us design how a page can be laid out to help find the style that helps keep users on our pages.

Real-Time Data

We are able to launch real-time social campaigns that coincide with rising stories.

Content Optimization

It helps determine what stories should go out as push notifications or at the top of the homepage with prominent placement.

Engagement Metrics

It informs us what our audience is interested in and willing to click on. So yes, in the initial ideation process Chartbeat data comes into play.

Content Optimization

It helps to know what is trending so that we can market that content better.

Real-Time Data

It is very helpful in determining what stories we should continue to update and stay on top of versus stories that are not performing well and we shouldn't sink resources into. It also shows us what stories we should do sidebars and follow-up stories on in order to capitalize on the traffic of …

Content Optimization

We regularly use A/B headline testing on articles and it's tremendously helpful in improving the traffic on stories when we change headlines. Testing headlines is something that has become just a part of our process and that's thanks to Chartbeat's functionality.

Engagement Metrics

We do look at reader loyalty and engaged time for stories, but concurrents and pageviews are what we still focus on mainly. We've also dedicated ourselves to improving traffic on mobile devices, and seeing what content does better there. The pandemic affected that, however, with many more people …

Real-Time Data

Timing is everything in digital publishing. Chartbeat enables us to see the trends, see when we start declining in traffic from various channels to produce social updates or additional search signals to boost our volume in those respective channels.

Additionally, we can see prior week's trends. …

Content Optimization

Watching for dips in traffic enables our teams to understand the best times to send updates on particular pieces of content. Understanding how long people stay on an asset or for how long they watch a video is also key.

We've discovered new traffic sources and the benefits of certain aggregators …

Engagement Metrics

Our team watches how long visitors have viewed videos or other content elements to determine better content to embed or how to rearrage/edit articles and future articles.

We leverage popularity with a Chartbeat API to serve recirculation content based on what's most popular using Chartbeat metrics.

Real-Time Data

We can react much quicker to trends and learn new things about our audiences every day.

Content Optimization

The recirculation tool is a really good indicator of when we might need to adapt or change the way our content is presented in order to keep people reading or visit another page.

Engagement Metrics

All of our data tools contribute to the type of content we publish on our website - and Chartbeat is one of those.

Real-Time Data

We have created new similar stories for best performing stories.

Content Optimization

We have learnt how to write more juicy and catchy headlines by the help of Chartbeat headlines testing.

Engagement Metrics

We have increased the type of content on the basis of reader loyalty and engaged time data.

Real-Time Data

From a user standpoint, Chartbeat helps identify wasted energy, which is a highly useful endeavor. If a two-minute video embedded in an article is getting the same engagement as a 10-minute video, there's no reason to waste the extra time needed to edit a 10-minute video when two will do.

Content Optimization

I have not used Chartbeat's content testing tool, only because I didn't know it existed until this moment. But now that you mention it, I'll have to look into it. Chartbeat gives us a strong feel for how to time our social media response (which times of day are optimal engagement times, when's a …

Engagement Metrics

Reader loyalty lets us know when we're hitting our wheelhouse, or when we're dragging behind and need to pick up our game. Device type is somewhat useful in that it gives us a good idea of when something's askew (e.g., if we're usually at 60 percent mobile vs. 40 percent desktop, but today we're …

Real-Time Data

It's been extremely beneficial because in some cases, it helps us decide whether we'll continue to follow a story if we see a lot of people find news value in it, or decide to cover something else if we see not too many people are interested in it.

Content Optimization

From our use of Chartbeat, we have been able to see the importance of having our talent push out our content on their social media pages, since Chartbeat showed that drives a good number of our clicks. We've also changed the number of push alerts we send after seeing how people react to them …

Engagement Metrics

It has influenced it somewhat, though not too much. We make editorial decisions based on newsworthiness and other factors, and seeing how newsworthy our users find certain content has helped us in making those calls.

Real-Time Data

This is the best of Chartbeat. The realtime does [it] all easier. We can change and adapt our sites with hot information, and for us, this is so important. We can see the content performance in UI and interactions through the Chrome extension. This combination of different tools with different …

Engagement Metrics

Chartbeat provides a lot of metrics, combined with realtime [capabilities] this has a big impact on how we move content regarding user interactions. We use Chartbeat but not how our principal metrics provider. We use Google Analytics to do that, and mix outputs with Chartbeat and Piano to make new …

Real-Time Data

When I see stories are getting clicks, I can move them to places on the homepage or our other platforms so that they can be seen by more readers.

Content Optimization

Chartbeat allows us to see in real time if a story is performing well on one platform but not on another and to adjust where needed--improve placement on the homepage, schedule a post on social platforms, improve the SEO headline, etc.

Engagement Metrics

Chartbeat is one piece of information we use among many to make decisions regarding what we publish.

Real-Time Data

From an SEO perspective, it just really helps me understand audience volume, size, interest and if we should be expecting more out of this or we are where we need to be from an audience perspective.

Content Optimization

It has allowed me to see what pieces of content that are popping up in a news situation [that are older] and how to potentially use them in our coverage packaging and more.

Engagement Metrics

Recirculation rates have helped us be a bit more predictive in what type of content really connects and find ways to load up those pages with related content in a non-intrusive way.

Real-Time Data

As I said, this technology gives the possibility of take decisions in real time to increase the performance of our articles.

Content Optimization

Yes, we use a lot the HUD (Heads Up Display).

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Videos are also monitored by this software and we can easily monitor the reach of the videos uploaded on our platform.
I would like its mobile version to be as extensive as the web version, so I could use the software anywhere without limitations.

Luisana Pacheco

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Princeton HR Insight LLC (Human Resources, 1001-5000 employees)

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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.

The vendor boasts 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 robust reporting, to help the world’s leading media organizations understand, measure, and build business value from the attention earned by their written and video content. Chartbeat offers a Mobile app, Slack integration, spike alerts, and flexible API, so that users can always be ready to take action with data at their fingertips.

Chartbeat Features

Supported: Real-time and historical analytics dashboards
Supported: Headline Testing
Supported: Image Testing
Supported: Reporting Tools
Supported: Raw Data Pipeline

Chartbeat Screenshots

Screenshot of Big Board: A favorite in newsrooms all over the world, our leaderboard-style visualization shows your top stories on your biggest, baddest screen.

Screenshot of Real-time dashboard: Understand how your audience is connecting with your content in the moment – across platforms, channels, and devices – so you can act to optimize when trends happen.

Screenshot of Historical Dashboard: Intuitively assess content performance, KPIs, and valuable trends over the long term.

Screenshot of Heads Up Display: Know which homepage articles are your top performers, how stories are trending up or down in traffic, and how far visitors are scrolling down the page. Adapt the user experience accordingly, all in your normal workflow.

Screenshot of Video Dashboard: Grasp how your video content captures viewer attention so you can capitalize on distribution opportunities.

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Chartbeat Technical Details

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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Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of Chartbeat are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

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