Parse.ly is a great way to help us track our traffic
June 25, 2020

Parse.ly is a great way to help us track our traffic

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

Overall Satisfaction with Parse.ly

We use Parse.ly to monitor live site traffic 24/7 - it's very handy to see as a quick snapshot how the day is tracking. We also read daily summary reports from Parse.ly looking at how each article performed and where the audience was coming from (direct, social, google, news etc).

Pros

  • Easy to read statistics.
  • Clean, functional layout.
  • I like the live 'worm' that moves up and down during the day.

Cons

  • The URLs that list where some traffic came from (i.e. Twitter) are sometimes hard to read.
  • It would be great to see more detail of traffic sources. For example, if a spike of views come from Twitter it would be great to see if it is a specific tweet or account the bulk of views are coming from.
  • It allows us to see what content has performed the best, and focus on producing more of that.
  • It shows the impact the sending time of our daily newsletter has on views.
  • It shows what hits Google news, which is important for us.
I have never needed to use Parse.ly support.

Do you think Parse.ly delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Parse.ly's feature set?

Yes

Did Parse.ly live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Parse.ly go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Parse.ly again?

Yes

Comments

  • Alexa Benatar | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Alexa Benatar
    (Vendor Representative) commented 4 years ago
    Hi Ben! Thank you for your review. We're so glad you love using Parse.ly and find value in our products. I wanted to help you out with this point: "It would be great to see more detail of traffic sources. For example, if a spike of views come from Twitter it would be great to see if it is a specific tweet or account the bulk of views are coming from." You can do this! If you navigate to Referrers > click on Social > Twitter, you'll see a Tweet tab appear. Click that and you'll see views from tweets grouped together (for example, if one specific tweet is driving a bulk of views, it would be shown here) and then individual tweets below. Please reach out to us if you have any questions!

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