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Parse.ly

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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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Helpful real-time data

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 15, 2020
MP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Parse.ly
2 years of experience
We use it across the whole organization to track web traffic on our website, Richmond.com, so we can make better decisions about what we cover and what is of interest to our readers. Having real-time information about what people look at allows us to change on the fly and not have to wait a day or two.
  • Live tracking of traffic.
  • Breaking down by input.
Cons
  • Can't see what people search on Google to reach stories.
  • Archive only goes back a year.
Parse.ly is an extremely valuable tool to know in real-time what our readers want, and whether we are providing it to them or not. The ability to change and adapt on the fly is extremely helpful, and something that wasn't as easy to track without the software.

Need Real-Time Data? Parse.ly Is There.

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 21, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
Parse.ly
4 years of experience
Parse.ly is largely used to track real-time traffic as well as a map where users go from the get-go.
  • Tracking real-time traffic.
  • Following users across the site.
  • Showing traffic sources
Cons
  • Reporting functionality could be improved.
  • It would be helpful if Parse.ly updated content without a recrawl on our end.
  • It would be helpful if we could isolate traffic by the time period of publication, not just by time period — e.g. be able to see traffic ONLY for pieces published in a certain time frame without the noise of other content.
Parse.ly is invaluable for tracking real-time visits to your site, allowing you to optimize content when users are actually on it.

Good system for real-time and historic analytics

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 23, 2022
Vetted Review
Verified User
Parse.ly
4 years of experience
Real-time traffic analytics for news stories across the site, selection of news, and hierarchy of reader engagement. Informs publishing patterns, story selection, and priorities. Some issues searching and locating stories, saving filtered searches, or modifying saved filtered searches and filtering by time isn't always that easy - can require a large number of clicks.
  • Real time data analytics of published stories
Cons
  • Filtering by time, sections, author, etc if fiddly/moving between pulse/historic, etc can be clunky and make searching difficult - UX/layout
  • Saving and editing saved filtered searches not intuitive
Watching live analytic insight is very useful and looking by day or month gives good snapshots of traffic and audience engagement. Looking at the audience's journey into and out of the story is not so good nor is seeing how video engagement is performing etc. Insight on pages and how people read is not there.

Parse.ly is great for real time parsing of data

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 13, 2022
Vetted Review
Verified User
Parse.ly
2 years of experience
I use Parse.ly every day at my job. It helps articulate in real-time the traffic on a website that needs to deliver information to its users as fast as possible. I monitor and use the software/website constantly throughout my entire day. I personally use it for a website that sees millions of users every month.
  • Delivers real-time feed of website traffic
  • Articulates data in a clear and concise manner
  • Makes user navigation incredibly easy to pick up with little knowledge or experience
Cons
  • It doesn't make it easy to examine data from more than 12 months prior
  • Its mobile experience could be better for those that might need it in a fast-paced environment
  • Sometimes articulates data visually, for a brief few moments, before it's actually in, and overestimates traffic
Parse.ly is particularly well suited to media companies that need quick real-time feedback from users who traffic their website and content. Any space where editorial decisions need to be made would benefit from using the software. It gives lots of information that helps you understand how many people are visiting your site and why in a quick and easily digestible manner.

Parse.ly is time saver

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 05, 2024
MS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Parse.ly
3 years of experience
Parse.ly means data about the entire group's online traffic is available pretty much instantly. I use the platform to analyse my own traffic, for instance I can see which stories are trending, for how long, and this helps me analyse my output, so for instance maybe some types of stories don't tend to do well, and others do. This doesn't necessarily influence my output - for instance in Cambridge, a business story may be relatively low in traffic terms, but it is a select audience I want to reach, so the volume doesn't matter in that situation. It helps that I can assess where the traffic is coming from, how it compares against my colleagues' output for that hour/day/week/month, and it has become a vital tool to finetune my output.
  • Traffic data
  • Comparison with other writers on the same paper
  • Up-to-the-minute analysis
  • Visual way of sharing data
  • Easy to use
Easy to use, detailed data
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