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Woopra – Advanced and Elegant Site Tracking and Monitoring
July 2, 2008
For the past blogging years, bloggers and website owners have been so familiarized with various site analytical tools on monitoring site statistics and visitors behavioral activity. They get to choose from wide array of site monitoring selections such as Google Analytics, Sitemeter, Wordpress stats plugins, some customized site scripts and more. Yes, they are all great, they all share one thing in common – you get to monitor your site on fixed regular basis.
But hey, let’s pause. Have you ever wonder how to monitor your sites on real-time basis ? As in see and watch your site visitors’ geographical location as soon as they enter your site? Or even chat with them LIVE from your desktop screen while they are off browsing your site’s content. Yes that is right, I am talking about proactive site monitoring – that is monitoring LIVE on real-time basis.
Introducing Woopra.
Site tracking and site analysis tool has never been technical and fun at the same time. Mostly technical, sometimes funny when things get scrambled down and messes with some parts of your brain’s mathematical cells. Well, I would like to introduce Woopra.
Woopra can be defined in the shortest possible elegant monitoring software in these words as world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application. You will be glad to know that it is absolutely free!
Woopra has so many features that it’s so difficult to share them all. I have managed to create a simple and brief summary of its highlighted and wooping woopra features. Read on.
Real-Time Live Tracking and Web Statistics
Most graphical and log representation of analytical site statistics are being shown at fixed interval rate. This could be every on hourly basis, 12-hour basis or even on daily basis!
With Woopra, as soon as your site visitors steps into your website, his current geographical location is immediately being shown from the map. Yes, site visitors are mapped out of the graph in a flash! You get to see different country source location on real-time basis, well at least there’s a few seconds delay with my current internet speed. And here’s more, you proactively monitors his site entrance and site exits, it’s like watching site visitors entering and making exit from your gift shop! Isn’t that great?
Perhaps, your site visitor was searching for more or specific details? You can most likely read what he’s trying to search and digg out from your site’s content, yes that is right. This is possible too by looking at search keywords and phrases used by your site visitors.
Rich-User Java-based Interface
Java-enabled software can probably be a memory and resource hog for small time PCs, but hey, it gives you the unique capability and intuitive feature, not to mention the convenience of having to experience to monitor and perhaps administer your site statistics live. Most linux appliances specially those monitoring and VOIP linux boxes have these features.
Not to mention, high-end cisco switches, firewalls and content engines boxes make use of java technology with their on statistics and usage monitoring.
Visitor and Member Tagging
The moment your site visitor steps inside your website , you have a chance to get to know him immediately. How? Woopra’s site installation is done by javascript. This basically means, you can send simple to complex HTML type of messages to your site visitors in a flash, using a javascript and popup windows. Isn’t that cool? Live feed backs, visitor statistics and site interaction can lead to a better site improvement and enhancement. Nothing can beat the power of live visitor feedbacks and site surveys on improving site and data content. Woopra gives this feature and makes it as easy as 1, 2 and 3 – no external software needed and no other messaging server is required.
Another thing is, visitor and member tagging. This is direct definition of visitor identification. You get to tag and 
identify loyal site visitors and your new site visitors. You get the chance to tag him according to your tagging definitions. Site visitors can also be classified not only by their geolocation, but also by their site crawling behavior and site loyalty.
Grand-Ma Type Software Installation
You read it right, grandma can even install it as long as she can read english. However, I am sure further developments on international language support would soon be available for this type of superb monitoring software.
Once installed, you’re good to go. Software updates, feature improvements, news resources would be available and optionally, can be installed right away from your desktop upon notifications. Take a grip of its wonderful Woopra plugin available for different site CMS platforms like Wordpress, vBulletin and more to come.
Installation is easy. The concept is plug a java script lines inside your site content and your site is ready to beam site statistics and numbers to your eyes.
Developer Tool
Woopra is designed and still being enhanced for more comprehensive and analytical view in terms of site statistical monitoring combined with site visitor’s interaction at the same time. Woopra is powered and built from robust platforms supported by software APIs for easy site integration and easy does it from developer’s viewpoint.
Manage Multiple Blogs and Websites
Woopra also offers you a feature of monitoring your multiple sites presented in an interactive tabbed menu link. As soon as you install Woopra javascript into your site, your site is ready for real time site monitoring and statistics viewing. This is a key feature that gives you the edge of site comparison charts, which provides sites identication ranking like sites being crawled and visited more often compared from the rest of the sites shown a single-click and tabbed-inch away and not by profile identity offered by other analytic software.
Deep Analytic and Search Capabilities
Woopra can also serve as a point of site statistics search. You can actually search by IP address, tag names,
geographical locations, search queries and keywords and more enabling you to be more specific on getting deeper analytical data by specific search results. This is like digging deeper and compounding results by specific search key item, resulting to a more targetted specific data.
Google Analytics vs Woopra
Google Analytics and Woopra has one thing in common – site statistics. They similarly offer historical site statistics and analytics. Google analytics presentation are hosted from Google widespread and distributed servers while Woopra stats presentation are client-based. Both stands tall and high on presentation features, site visitor manuevers, feature enhancement and monitoring stats user-experience. You could actually draw a very long line of comparisons between these two – both with similar analytical concepts but different stat presentations and approach.
Bottomline, Woopra revolutionizes the way we see our incoming and outgoing site visitors, their country, flags, search query, site movements, IP address, browsers details and so much more presented in a more full featured, intuitative and interactive real-time desktop environment right from your finger tips.
Woopra is hot and currently available from different platforms – Windows, Mac and Linux, get it now. And if you wish to install Woopra from your Fedora linux box, here’s a run down install howto.
Tags: site monitoring, site statistics, site tracking, woopra
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Thanks for the kind review and the great coverage of all the Woopra features. There are more coming, so stay tuned. :D
Personally, I love the visitor tagging and custom event notifications. I can create an event notification to alert me while I’m working and doing other things as to when someone visits my site and meets the notification criteria. For example, I write for a variety of blogs, so I can create a notification that alerts me when someone comes from one of those blogs to my blog, letting me know right now, not later when looking at the stat summaries, that the other blog is working for my blog, bringing in visitors. I like that.
There are so many ways people are coming up with to use Woopra, I’m dazzled on a daily basis.
Been using it for a long time and I’ve encountered some problems like each sub-domain must be registered separately. and tracks only by paths such that it doesn’t distinguish between http://…/index?q=node/1and http://…/index?q=node/2. Check their forums for more.
Subdomains are indeed treated like separate websites during the beta testing phase. However, it does track statistics within physical subdirectories and virtual “directories” called categories such as permalink “categories” like WordPress uses, which gives you information often lacking in most web analytics.
@godie, woopra is yet on beta after 3 months of being officially launched. And since its functions are based more likely on site’s object items, identification of site objects should be established and registered logically like for subdomains, and the like , specially on query-based URLs, i guess, that is why stuffs are on beta and why they invented updates and upgrades worlds in the IT world. thanks for the comment though.
@all, but sure is a promising wooping woopra that beats all client-based analytics that i have for now.
I love Woopra. I can’t stand a day without looking at it. @lorelle, please keep it free for us for life. :-)