May 02 2008
Posted by Carol in Freeware |
A couple of weeks ago I was looking for a desktop web tracking tool and I happen to find Woopra.
Its description on Woopra web site was appealing and I decided to give it a try.
After waiting about two weeks for its makers to confirm my URL’s, I am finally able to log on into the dashboard and start tracking my web site’s visitors.
First impression about its look: too dark, too blue.
First impression about its potential: impressive.
First impression about CPU consumption: High, but FireFox 2 is worse.
Although it doesn’t beat Nico’s Google Analytics Suite, I am still going to say that is worth downloading and using it.
The difference between these two: Woopra (beta) shows you instantly your visitor’s presence, while Google doesn’t.
Now, aside from having lots of cool analytics capabilities, Woopra also let you tag your visitors and members, and allows the webmasters to interact with the visitors through Click-to-chat feature.
If you’re using WordPress, there is also a plugin that you can use instead of a code to start tracking.
For more information, visit Woopra web site.
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12 Responses
Syahid A.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:02 am
1Looks like a very useful analytics tool Carol. Makes it easier for others to use it with the Wordpress plugin. Cool.
Carol
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
2My Woopra indentified you as Syahid A. . Cool, huh?
Lorelle
May 5th, 2008 at 12:08 am
3So do you see me?
Woopra can be so much fun, it’s addictive. Be careful.
Tony
May 5th, 2008 at 7:36 am
4statcounter.com.topfreeware.netHave you seen http://www.statcounter.com.
Thats what I use
Tony, Webmaster of
http://www.topfreeware.net
Carol
May 12th, 2008 at 8:58 am
5Hi Lorelle,
Haven’t see you on the stats or maybe i didn’t pay attention to everything.
Addictive indeed.
Tony, I have a statcounter account, but the tracking code caused me some issues by slowing down the loading of my blog.
Carol
May 12th, 2008 at 9:21 am
6Lorelle, i just spotted you while looking up through my visits.
This is really sweet!
The way i can chat with my visitors is so cool.
Ajay D'Souza
May 18th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
7I guess the major plus point is the ability to chat with visitors. What is the load on the blog?
Carol
May 19th, 2008 at 5:29 am
8Indeed it is, Ajay.
The plugin seems to be very light because it has no effect whatsoever so there is no load on the blog.
I haven’t seen any strange/different behavior. Can be due to the fact that all you have to do is insert a number into a field that will extract the data from Woopra servers.
Ajay D'Souza
May 19th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
9I’ve already signed up. Going to install it on my blog and see how it works out.
Syahid A.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:16 am
10@Carol: Wow, that is pretty cool. How did they identify users by name? Comments perhaps?
Carol
May 20th, 2008 at 7:52 am
11@Ajay - Let me know how it works for you. I am curious about your input.
@Syahid- I haven’t got a clue how they do that, but is pretty neat.
I will send them an e-mail and ask them.
Ajay D'Souza
May 20th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
12I’ll take a look at that, will probably blog about it and let you know.
I’m interested in the identification part. I have to test this out on my laptop, which I use more regularly.
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