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  • Breaking one million

    There’s been some celebrations around chartbeat today as we can now say that at any one moment during the day we are listening to the pulse of more than one…

  • Announcing two new historical APIs

    Although chartbeat has always emphasized the value of real-time data, we know that past performance is really important for understanding what today’s numbers mean. It’s why we brought historical data…

  • The four design decisions behind chartbeat’s v2

    The chartbeat dashboard recently underwent its first major revision since launching a year ago. In this post, betaworks’ User Experience lead Neil Wehrle will share some of the process and…

  • Chartbeat v2 is here!

    We’re excited to release our Beta version of chartbeat v2. We’ve spent the last few months talking to many of you about what you want from chartbeat and we’ve tried…

  • Understanding what Chartbeat is measuring

    When people initially think about real-time analytics they often think of it as, “like traditional analytics, only faster.” But what’s often missed is the transformative way Chartbeat measures visitor activity:…

  • Tracking the iPad announcement with Chartbeat

    The Apple iPad announcement was not just a big day for Apple, it was a huge day for the gadget blogs. Chartbeat is under the hood of a number of…

  • Chartbeat Analytics power TypePad and DreamHost

    We’re happy to announce that Chartbeat is now providing real-time analytics to Six Apart’s TypePad blogging service and major webhosting service DreamHost! From now on TypePad bloggers will be able…

  • Google Analytics Goes Asynchronous

    As you may have read, Google Analytics recently beta-launched asynchronous tracking – an enhancement that we also made to Chartbeat back in October.  The main reason for our switch (as…

  • Guest Post: Why Dogster uses Chartbeat

    Ted Rheingold CEO of Dogster, Inc. took the time to tell us a little bit about how his team use Chartbeat: Chartbeat has become a permanent addition to our quiver…

  • Chartbeat’s real-time analytics come to the iphone and more!

    You’re away from your computer when you get an alert on your phone that traffic has spiked to an all-time high. Was it random good fortune or did something happen,…

  • New 10,15 & 20 site plans and raised caps for high-traffic sites!

    Until now, chartbeat has limited how many sites you can track to five. However, you’ve been asking for the ability to track even more sites and now you can! If…

  • New alert log and improved replay function

    Chartbeat analytics now shows you an alert log of all the unusual events that triggered an alert, be it a traffic alert, uptime or slow page load time. You can…