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The Role of Research in Building the New Chartbeat Publishing, Part 1
Last fall, the Chartbeat product team was hunkered down in an office space that could’ve made an excellent interrogation room. We temporarily obtained this 500 square-foot room to augment our…
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Understanding Your Traffic Sources, Part 4: External Traffic
This marks the fourth part in our ongoing series on traffic sources. If you haven’t already read them, check out the introduction and my analyses of direct traffic and traffic…
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Did You Know: Chartbeat Notable Pages
Here at Chartbeat, we realize you’re super busy and often have a ton of content to comb through, keep an eye on, and generally manage. With this in mind, it’s…
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Meet the Weekly Audience Perspective
Earlier this year, we rolled out the Daily Content Perspective. Our goal was not only to give our clients an end-of-day summary, but also to provide more context and color,…
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Introducing Two-Factor Authentication
Two-factor authentication is rapidly becoming an industry standard for protecting your identity on a website. You might have it already setup for your email or Twitter account. We all know…
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What’s Most Popular and Most Engaging across the Web? Meet Chartbeat Rising.
A few weeks ago we launched the new Chartbeat Labs page and with it introduced our latest hack project that’s totally free and open to everyone on the internet, whether you’re a…
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Understanding Your Traffic Sources, Part 3: Social Traffic
This post is part three in our ongoing series on traffic sources. In part one, I talked about how we classify traffic and introduced some basic metrics for understanding the…
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Understanding Your Traffic Sources, Part 2: Direct Traffic
This post marks the second entry in our series on Understanding your Traffic Sources. Today, we’ll be talking through what’s probably the most mismeasured segment of your audience: direct traffic.…
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Chartbeat Report: Understanding Your Social and Homepage Audience
We partnered with Sarah Marshall at Journalism.co.uk on a study about homepage and social audience behaviors. Over a month-long period our data scientist Josh Schwartz analyzing traffic of over 60 billion page…
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Listening to the Data
As a former sound studies student and radio/music/audio geek, I tend to think a lot about the various aural phenomena I confront on a daily basis. On the job, it’s…
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Understanding Your Traffic Sources, Part 1: an Introduction
It goes without saying that thoroughly understanding how traffic arrives at your site is critical for audience development efforts – certain traffic sources are ideal for reaching new readers, others may…
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Did You Know: What Makes Chartbeat Publishing Different?
We know you have many products in your analytics tool box. As a Chartcorps member who educates and works with clients every day, I am often asked how Chartbeat differs…
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