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  • Hacking Chartbeat

    Daniel

    The number one reason Chartbeat is as awesome as it is? We exclusively hire awesome people. And the backbone of our awesome resides in our team of engineers. When you…

  • Send Us Your Big Boards!

    Ben

    Numbers tell the whole story? Usually not. But in the case of Gawker and many of our other clients, they can be pretty damn important. Nick Denton said it best…

  • Your Social Traffic is Higher Than You Think

    Lauryn Warnick

    Direct traffic. It’s a nebulous beast. Most web analytics products toss any visitor without referrer information into this category. That means any number of people like those who have: Typed…

  • Check Out Your Highlights Reel

    Lauryn Warnick

    Introducing Event Stream & Notable Events for Newsbeat Brace yourself: The right side of your Newsbeat dashboard just got a lot more action. We’ve launched Event Stream, a ticker-like feed…

  • Metrics that Matter & the Death of the Page View

    Lauryn Warnick

    Page views are a pain in the ass. It’s the metric that lies behind so many of the bad design decisions on the web. Time on page is too. The…

  • Newsbeat: Introducing Benchmarking for stories

    Isaac

    Real-time analytics like Newsbeat enables you to understand what’s happening on your site right now, but it can still be hard to understand whether an article is performing better or…

  • We’re headed to the ONA!

    Dawn

    The people in the newsroom are the heart and soul of newsbeat, so we’re really excited to be heading to Boston for the ONA conference this weekend. Tony Haile (our…

  • Celebrating your Chartbeat triumphs

    Dawn

    One of the most exciting things about having chartbeat running on your site is that moment when your traffic goes nuts and you can watch it unfold on your dashboard.…

  • Making new vs. returning visits more human centric

    Dawn

    This past Sunday morning, we made a change to the way we measure new vs. returning visitors to your site. We think it’s important to measure humans rather than clicks,…

  • The EU cookie directive and chartbeat

    Dawn

    We’ve had a few of our European clients ask about the new EU cookie directive and how this affects their site’s use of chartbeat or newsbeat. The EU law, which requires…

  • Newsbeat: Introducing Spike Alerts

    Isaac

    One of the biggest values of a real-time data product is its ability to highlight unusual activity on your site – activity that directly translates into actionable information. However, in…

  • Tools for sharing your data with the world

    Dawn

    Displaying data about your site, on your site, has become part of the standard user experience – from the number of Facebook and Twitter shares to the total page views…

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