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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 8.1
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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

(1-5 of 44)

Parse.ly = user friendly reporting

Rating: 7 out of 10
May 07, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
Parse.ly
2 years of experience
Parse.ly is used to track engagement, source, and trends for our editorial content and report on editorial articles. Our company finds Parse.ly more user friendly for editors. I use Parse.ly primarily to track hot/trending articles (alerts) and what sources the audience is coming from.
  • Trending article alerts.
  • User friendly.
  • Custom sorting (for article authors in our case).
  • Automated reports.
Cons
  • A bigger picture view.
  • More detailed look into audience demographics.
  • Customizing from a user standpoint (not set up).
Parse.ly is user friendly and offers "simple" reporting/views of web analytics. If I want to get more detailed, I go to Google Analytics.

Parse.ly makes data user-friendly and accessible to all.

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 11, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
Parse.ly
3 years of experience
We use Parse.ly across the whole organization. Parse.ly allows us to track engagement with our online content and when we see something picking up steam. It's useful to see both in terms of what content is resonating and what referrer is driving the traffic.
  • Allows you to track the success of your content in real time
  • Allows you to see where your traffic is coming from (referrer)
Cons
  • A further breakdown into email insight
In a world where "content is king," being able to track the success of what you are providing your audience--in real time--is huge.

Parse.ly Review from a User.

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 12, 2024
FZ
Vetted Review
Verified User
Parse.ly
15 years of experience
Yes, we use it for page analytics tracking. It helps us get real-time data on page/article performance.
  • Analytics tracking.
  • Real time data gathering.
  • Section page specific data before aggregated view creation.
Cons
  • Component level metrics for page elements.
  • The dashboard is cool but it needs to support custom queries on the fly.
It provides out-of-the-box analytics tracking. It was easy to integrate, and the basic dashboard was pretty good.

A New User in a New Industry and I Love Parse.ly!

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 13, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Parse.ly
1 year of experience
We use Parse.ly to track all of our articles on our websites. We mostly look at visitors and average visitors over a historical period to get benchmarks and compare them to each other. We look for growth stories and to see if articles about a certain event do better than the average article. Only a few people in our organization use Parse.ly, those on the research and analytics team.
  • User-friendly Interface
  • Good Reporting - easy to use!
Cons
  • I am new to the industry so I don't see any room for improvement yet!
Parse.ly is great for collecting benchmarks of average performance done on your articles and then using that to compare to a specific set of articles. When we are trying to get a client to buy an ad with one of our articles about the Olympics, for example, we look at performance of Olympics articles and compare to our benchmark.

Parse.ly is great for what it offers, could use some fancier features

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 22, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Parse.ly
2 years of experience
Parse.ly is used across our whole company to track story performance on newspaper websites. It also is used by individual newsrooms, reporters, and photographers to track that same performance. Parse.ly is used to determine page views, referral sources, engagement time, and other metrics important to determine what readers are looking at, how they're getting there, how long they're engaging, and where they go next on the website.
  • Parse.ly's ability to show data in virtually real time.
  • Parse.ly's breakdown of where website viewers are coming from (social, direct, internal).
  • Parse.ly is user friendly and has an easy-to-use interface.
Cons
  • While Parse.ly provides a breakdown of what social sites viewers are coming from, it's impossible to see the exact referring post/tweet.
  • I'd like to be able to see video views on a web page as a percentage of page views.
  • Would love to be able to know what Google keywords/searches were part of a search function that got viewers to a particular page.
Parse.ly is easy to use and quick to learn. It has a lot of features that are helpful in determining who your website users are, how they got there, and how long they stayed. It's a great tool for media companies to track engaged readers. There are some features that would be helpful and I wish would be expanded but they don't deteriorate the overall Parse.ly experience or benefits.
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