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  • Chartbeat just got faster

    One of our top priorities is making sure installing chartbeat does not affect the experience for your sites’ users. Keeping our code small, distributed via a CDN, and loaded at…

  • Chartbeat upgrades: New Global Dashboard and more!

    Chartbeat will look a little different the next time you log in. We’d love your feedback on the changes we’ve made. Global Dashboard We’ve made significant changes to the Global…

  • Guest Post: How Talking Points Memo uses chartbeat

    This is a guest post from Al Shaw, Associate Publisher at Talking Points Memo. Thanks Al! As a real time news organization, TPM is obsessed with stats. For both our…

  • Does Chartbeat slow sites down?

    A few Chartbeat users have told us that when their sites are loading slowly they see ‘loading ping.chartbeat.net’ hanging in their browser status bar. Their browser seems to be telling…

  • Chartbeat no longer requires Paypal!

    We’ve made a range of changes to the Chartbeat homepage so that it’s even easier to set up real-time analytics on your site. The most important is that Chartbeat no…

  • The 10/90 rule of analytics (or how to save $100,000 a year)

    Picking the right analytics tool for your website can be a difficult, time-consuming and expensive business. Do you go for the cheap or even free services such as Google Analytics…

  • Baratunde of the Onion talks Chartbeat

    ‘I want a big monitor of chartbeat for every site I love, run or have wanted to run‘ Baratunde Thurston, the awesome web editor of the Onion and the always…

  • Chartbeat hacks: 404 alerts

    The Twitter fail whale made it famous but someone hitting your 404 page has long been an early indicator of a potential major problem with a site. You can do…

  • Announcing the chartbeat-Google Analytics mashup competition

    As we’ve said before, we see chartbeat as a great complement to Google Analytics, combining our real-time capabilities with their analysis of the archive. To celebrate Google Analytics opening their…

  • Chartbeat & Google Analytics

    Since chartbeat launched, we’ve had some great press and a lot of people comparing us favourably to other analytics services out there, including the 800 pound gorilla that is Google…

  • Videosift gets a heartbeat from Chartbeat

    Videosift, a very cool online video community with a digg-style social recommendation engine has chartbeat beating underneath the hood of their site now. They’ve kindly decided to open up and…

  • Andrew Hyde demoes Chartbeat

    Start-up veteran Andrew Hyde of Techstars took the time to record a webcast about Chartbeat, and does a great job of showcasing some of our favourite features. Take a look!…