Content Intelligence for Publishers
The Real-Time Media Analytics Platform for Building Loyal Audiences
CONTENT INTELLIGENCE
Chartbeat Essentials
Get an instant read on your traffic and reader engagement with media-focused website analytics.
With publisher essentials like the Real-Time Dashboard, reporting to track 13 months of historical audience behavior, and Chartbeat Big Board that displays key analytics on the big screens, Chartbeat Essentials brings data-informed decision making and content strategy to your newsroom.
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Testing and Optimization
Maximize each story’s readership by optimizing page elements like headlines and images.
Chartbeat is the best A/B testing platform for media websites using reader data to drive content decisions.
Leverage tools like Headline and Image Testing along with AI-Generated Headline Suggestions to optimize for reader engagement after the click, while the Heads Up Display provides real-time performance insights and scroll depth tracking directly on your pages.
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Analytics and Reporting
Access historical dashboard insights to assess content performance and KPIs over the long term, including Total Engaged Minutes and Page performance metrics.
Build custom reports and visualizations via Data Lab or use Advanced Queries to export CSVs based on Chartbeat metrics.
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Reader Experience
Improve reader retention and audience engagement with smart, personalized content recommendations.
The Recommendations Engine drives recirculation by suggesting content based on audience behavior.
The Conversion Dashboard helps measure monetization and track conversions like subscriptions and registrations using editorial-first content attribution models.
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Benchmarking
Know how you’re performing compared to your peers and dig into editorial trends based on real, comprehensive data sets.
Use Chartbeat Cohorts, the trusted competitor benchmarking tool, to stay ahead by comparing your site’s traffic and engagement against peers in Chartbeat’s unmatched global network.
Gain smarter content strategies powered by social video analytics through Tubular Viewpoint.
Why Chartbeat?
Chartbeat provides the real-time media analytics platform trusted by thousands of global publishers to offer the fastest, cleanest signals of audience behavior.
We empower news publishers to go beyond simple clicks and views, helping you focus on deep reader engagement to build lasting loyal audiences.
Being able to extract live data has been transformational. We are able to make live content decisions backed up by research from platforms which is relevant at the time of publication. The app makes it possible for me to stay in touch with performance when I am not working.
Verified User
Manager
Chartbeat allows us [to] know extremely quickly what content is most important to our readers, and thereby allows us a strategic advantage on other platforms.
John Byrne
CEO, Raw Story Media
Chartbeat is used across our company as a key analytical tool to monitor audience for our online news platforms. We use it at a national, regional and local level for in excess of 50 news media sites.
Verified User
It’s not just the impact of the tools themselves that are helpful for real-time decision-making, it’s how easy it is to access and use them. Everyone in our newsroom uses Chartbeat.
Flavio Moreira
SEO Editor at UOL
Since Chartbeat was made available it is used as a constant tool by our senior editorial team to judge what coverage is attracting audience and this influences further decisions over immediate editorial and strategic planning.
Verified User
[Engaged Minutes] is much more valuable to us than pageviews. It gives us a much deeper understanding of how our readers are interacting with our content.
Gabe Isman
Director of Technology, The Marshall Project
Chartbeat provides the fastest and cleanest signals from the audience of any analytics product available.
Verified User
Executive
Using this software has helped us make editorial decisions that have led to substantial gains in traffic and users.
Verified User
Product Management
It’s great for a newsroom, an editorial team, as well as marketing and other editorial brand needs.
Jerry Portwood
Editorial Director, Rolling Stone
Frequently Asked Questions
What are Chartbeat’s different plans and add-ons?
Chartbeat Essentials includes core features like native app tracking, Google Search Console integration, and the full real-time dashboard. The Plus and Premium plans allow you to add up to three bundled performance suites of your choosing. Finally, Chartbeat Enterprise includes access to Chartbeat Essentials and all of our performance suites. See our pricing and plans.
How does Chartbeat integrate with paywalls and subscription models?
Chartbeat tracks subscriber status (guest, registered, or subscriber) through custom parameters that you choose, allowing you to filter audience data by user type. Moreover, Chartbeat’s Conversion tracking tool tracks subscriptions, registrations, and newsletter sign-ups to show which content drives conversions. While Chartbeat doesn’t set paywall rules directly, our real-time API can feed top-performing article data to your paywall provider to inform dynamic paywall decisions.
How user-friendly is Chartbeat for non-data specialists?
Chartbeat is purpose-built for editorial teams with their unique needs in mind. Our Big Board gives simplified real-time insights at a glance, while the Heads Up Display uses color-coded cues (green, red, blue) as straightforward performance indicators. Automated insights point out over- or underperforming content throughout every dashboard. Chartbeat also offers training, customer success support, and automated email reports for easy access to insights.
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