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  • Newsbeat, The Command Center For The New Newsroom, Opens Up To Public Beta

    Today, we’re proud to announce the beta release of newsbeat, the first real-time analytics service designed exclusively for publishers. We’ve spent the last six months working with publishers from The…

  • Coasting Past 4 Million!

    We first hit 4 million active visitors across all chartbeat sites over a month ago, but now we can confidently say it isn’t a one time thing. 4 million and cruising!! Thanks to…

  • Sprucing Things Up Around Here

    We’ve been busy! Over the past six months, the chartbeat crew has more than doubled in size to 18(!!) energetic and eclectic people. And between our development, product, and community…

  • Post-mortem of today’s DNS outage

    For those who might not have been following or affected, chartbeat just suffered, and is recovering from, a major DNS failure that affected our users’ dashboards. I wanted to give…

  • Recovery Update

    Update: 1:17 PM We have completed our DNS migration to Dynect (http://dyn.com/enterprise-dns/dynect-platform). They are the industrial strength DNS service powering Twitter and bit.ly, and have been incredibly responsive. We’d also…

  • Service Interruption Update

    Last evening, we began to see domain name resolution issues with our DNS provider. As a result, a subset of chartbeat customers are resolving to an invalid IP address for…

  • Better Know a Chartbeat – Engagement Module

    In the first installment of our “Better Know a Chartbeat*” series, I’d like to take a look at one of the powerful modules that is unique to chartbeat, the “Engagement…

  • See chartbeat data overlaid on your site

    Today we’re happy to unveil the latest gadget on chartbeat labs: Chartbeat for Google Chrome. It’s a Google Chrome extension that allows you overlay chartbeat data directly on your page,…

  • When Mubarak met the Internet

    We watched in awe as Al Jazeera helped to topple a dictator in Egypt. Chartbeat was behind the scenes powering the analytics and dealing with the flood as millions came…

  • Breaking 3,000,000 and the Mubarak Effect

    It feels like less than a month ago we were celebrating crossing 2 million concurrent visitors on chartbeat sites; that’s because it was! It took us 16 months to get…

  • Breaking 2 million!

    After chartbeat launched in April 2009 it took us 16 months to get to the point where we were recording the digital heartbeat of more than one million people at…

  • Hey Publishers, Chartbeat is getting personal!

    We’re proud to announce that the alpha release of Newsbeat, the first analytics service built entirely for Publishers. Newsbeat is real-time analytics purely focused on what’s important for those people…