Chartbeat is the best real-time analytics tool for news organizations

Chartbeat is used by all members of our team, both our editorial and business employees. We use it to track all the performance of all our news articles in real-time. It's tremendously helpful in tracking which stories are performing best and where our referral traffic is coming from. We also use it to determine where to put news articles on our front page, based on the performance of our content on other platforms (Facebook, Twitter, etc.).

Knowing how our content is performing in real-time is critical in determining what content we post to different platforms (FB, Twitter, etc.) If we're able to know immediately which content readers most enjoy, we can be more selective in posting our best content to each platform. Chartbeat allows us [to] know extremely quickly what content is most important to our readers, and thereby allows us a strategic advantage on other platforms.