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Woopra Website Stats Review

Just been trying out a new Desktop Statistical package to measure hits and a plethora of other info on your website’s performance. Its good!

Woopra is a fairly new program/service and its still in beta. Signing up on their website is free but unfortunately it took weeks (yes weeks!) to get my website approved for analysis and I ended up having to email support a couple of times to remind them I was still waiting!

When your site is approved you can access the code required from the Members section and paste it into the footer of whichever pages you’d like tracked. This aspect of the services is similar to Google Analytics or Statcounter. You then download the desktop client and login to see your stats. Heres a screenshot:

Woopra

After about a week of stat-gathering I had enough info on my main site and blog to show off Woopra’s features & capabilities. It gives the usual statistical breakdown including:

Visits & Hits
Countries/Locations/Languages
Top Pages
Bounce Rates
Operating Systems & Browsers
Screen Resolutions
Referrers
Search Keywords & Phrases

However, the thing that makes this program interesting is the fact that it has a ‘Live’ button which when clicked allows you to see people who are actually on your site right at that instant. You can tell:

Who they are
Where they are
What page they’re on
Their operating system and their browser!!

Apparently you can also initiate a chat with them but I havn’t been able to get this to work yet apart from talking to myself and theres a serious delay with that!

The program is very nicely laid out and attractive and has a ticker tape running across the bottom of the screen ala sky news or stock prices showing your site’s trends, eg – page visits up 20% etc… You can also add more than one site and export your data.

Leon.

Rated 4/5 on Sep 1 2008

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Posted in Reviews on September 1st, 2008
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Jared

I use visistat and it does all of this, and more. AND, it’s on version 6, not beta.

Granted I’ve not yet used woopra but my online business is my livelyhood and I can’t risk it on beta data.
http://www.reverbstudios.ie Leon

Visistat looks good alright but don’t forget the issue of price! We don’t all have $270 or need this kind of thing and theres no proof that either Woopra, Google analytics or other free stats services are inaccurate..