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Useful real-time analysis to optimise performance and develop employees
August 09, 2021

Useful real-time analysis to optimise performance and develop employees

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Chartbeat

We use Chartbeat across the editorial departments in our organisation to track performance of pages on our website in Real-Time, along with the Heads-Up Display to manage the homepage, and the headline and image testing tools.
  • Provides easy at-a-glance look at what people are reading right now
  • Heads-up Display allows you to make sure the homepage is showing the content people want to read
  • Headline testing tool provides fascinating insight into what makes people read a story and improves headline-writing ability
  • The 'Historical' tool has limited functionality for breaking down results (e.g. by specific referrer)
  • Some of the data available in Real-Time is not easily available to look back on (e.g. Heads-Up Display) to see how a story performed in different positions
  • 'Click-through rates' reported in Headline Testing results don't seem to tally with what would be an intuitive definition (clicks divided by views)
  • Helps ensure we are writing the right articles that people want to read
  • Helps maximise click-throughs from the homepage
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.
The basic Real-Time and Historical displays are very simple to use. The Advanced Queries option takes a bit more getting used to and some of the numbers in the Heads-Up Display needed to be interpreted with caution. Headline Testing is very straightforward. Image Testing is fairly simple, although would benefit from an option to automatically resize images.
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.
We look at the pages read by loyal users to help judge the content we should particularly focus on.

Do you think Chartbeat delivers good value for the price?

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Are you happy with Chartbeat's feature set?

Yes

Did Chartbeat live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Chartbeat go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Chartbeat again?

Yes

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