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What is Parse.ly?

Parse.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…

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Pricing

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee required
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.parse.ly/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $499 per month
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Features

Web Analytics

Web Analytic features such as SEO tracking, user engagement tracking, pageview tracking, and behavior analysis.

7.5
Avg 8.0
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Product Details

What is Parse.ly?

Parse.ly is an analytics platform built for content and designed with the belief that the most successful companies are the ones with the best content. Winning in the digital content world, though, isn't easy. You need to create feedback loops and listen, though data, to what your audience is telling you.

With 30 unique attention metrics, subscriber tracking, and audience segmentation, content creators, analysts, editors, marketers and communications professionals can use Parse.ly to:

  • Grow their business and improve key metrics like reader engagement, conversions, and retention through data-driven insights.

  • Act on immediate real-time audience insights or analyze historical data to get a clear picture of the past and plan for the future.

With a built-in personalization platform product teams can use Parse.ly to create dynamic content experiences powered by data and personalized by user on their website and in their CMS or WCM.

With our data pipeline platform data scientists and engineers can use our enriched clickstream data to spend less time on data infrastructure and more time on data analysis and insights.

Parse.ly works with 300+ enterprise companies using their trusted data infrastructure:

  • The #4 most widely installed premium web technology on high-traffic sites (according to BuiltWith).

  • Parse.ly is used by leading media and entertainment companies, DTC brands, Fortune 500 companies, B2B enterprise companies, and anyone who believes content can move their business forward.

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.
Compare how your content performances on various distributed channels including your website, AMP, Facebook Instant Articles, and Apple News.Screenshot of Referrers: Understand where your readers are coming from and what’s trending where in real-time or historically.Screenshot of Reporting suite: Set up recurring reports and schedule them to be emailed to you or your team on a daily, weekly, or monthly cadence.Screenshot of Tags: Tag content by format, topic, style—whatever structure makes sense for your company. Track sponsored content campaigns for better, more efficient, sales reporting.Screenshot of Conversions report: In the report, quickly see which content converts the most readers, which content assists the most conversions, and which types of conversions content drives best. The report runs weekly, showing conversion data for the last week.Screenshot of Video analytics: Demonstrate ROI of video efforts with a real-time and historical view of video performance. Parse.ly shows how videos and posts interact: which posts contain videos and which videos are played on each page.

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Parse.ly Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Mobile Web

Frequently Asked Questions

Parse.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.

Parse.ly starts at $499.

Adobe Analytics, Chartbeat, and Google Analytics are common alternatives for Parse.ly.

Reviewers rate Reporting in real-time highest, with a score of 8.6.

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

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Parse.ly is easy to use

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 24, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
Parse.ly
5 years of experience
Parse.ly is used to track analytics on our website. It's used by a team of several dozen people, allowing for real-time conversations about what we're seeing engagement on and what we're not. It allows us to swiftly make decisions and update the website in real-time.
  • Minute-by-minute analytics
  • Overview page offers daily trend comparative to past days
Cons
  • Too often is stops working temporarily
  • Make it easier to create a report
Well suited when you're interested in not only monitoring your web traffic but also want to know where it's coming from. Better suited for bigger websites versus smaller ones.

Easy to use analytics tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 04, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Parse.ly
3 years of experience
Across the whole organisation editorially. Parse.ly allows us to work out which articles are working and what is not. It also gives us top line stats on page views and other metrics for authors, sections, historic data, and campaigns like social/newsletters.
  • Campaign page views - not easy in something like Google Analytics.
  • Ease of interface.
  • Email reports are good.
Cons
  • UK filter on Currents.
Simple email reports to team - appropriate.
In-depth manipulation of data - less appropriate.
Upgrade for more than 12 months of data is disappointing.

Easy to use, limited data

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 20, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
Parse.ly
2 years of experience
Parse.ly is used to monitor day-to-day web traffic and understand which articles are performing best. Parse.ly is used by both editors and the analytics team. The primary business problems Parse.ly addresses are how particular pieces of content are performing and what referral sources drives the most traffic to certain articles.
  • Easy to use
  • Real-time
Cons
  • Less data than Google Analytics
  • Standard version does not have audience segments, such as subscribers
Parse.ly is better than its competitors at monitoring day-to-day traffic. It is easier to use than Google Analytics and is the preferred analytics tool of most editors.

For deeper analyses our analytics team does, Parse.ly has more limited data. Parse.ly only shows visitors, views and minutes, but not who is reading content or what they do on a page.

Accurate data in easy-to-use interface

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 22, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
Parse.ly
5 years of experience
Parse.ly has been used by our editorial, marketing, social media, and advertising teams to understand what type of content and topics are resonating with our readers. It aggregates all audience data in one clean, easy-to-use dashboard that is accessible to both data novices and experts alike.
  • Easy to understand and navigate
  • Accurate data when compared to other measurements
  • Easy reporting
  • Interface allows for spotting trends and setting strategy
  • Interface can be understood by all stakeholders
  • Great customer service and educational materials
Cons
  • Finding RSS feed / email campaign traffic can be a little more time consuming than finding other traffic sources
  • Conversion tracking is a great addition, but legacy customers may find the pricing inaccessible
  • Rolling traffic averages on the dashboard are not inaccurate, but do not give the whole picture and can be confusing when viewed by data novices
Parse.ly is well suited to companies that need a better understanding of their data and don't have a centralized data team to pull insights from Google Analytics or other sources. The learning curve is low, so almost anyone can pick it up and become familiar with how to pull insights for their particular needs. It may be less appropriate for companies that need to track highly custom events.

Parse.ly: Easy to use and helpful Tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 25, 2021
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Vetted Review
Verified User
Parse.ly
1 year of experience
Parse.ly helps us to keep tracking how good are doing our writings as they display on Google or not. Our organization sells ads across our press content, so it is important to track our views. It is also helpful to know what kind of content must be strengthened. Plus, we can track our daily or monthly results in a friendly environment.

  • Friendly user environment
  • Helps improving content
  • Detailed and in depth data
Cons
  • It sometimes lacks in recognizing Spanish characters in authors' names
  • It may be good to display real time active users per site
It can be helpful for the press and other SEO advertisers.
This tool is perfect for online sellers, as long as it keeps informed the enterprises about the users' interests and how to give them what are they looking for.
I would recommend this tool as an extra for Google Analytics' functions.
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