Basic
Intended for smaller-sized companies with up to 500.000 monthly page views.
- Up to 500k monthly page views
- Auto-generated insights
- 13 months data retention
- Single sign-on
- Unlimited user logins
Price
On request
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What Chartbeat's default install code did on our own test page, before any consent.
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Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real time, and share key metrics with your team. We combine real-time and historical analytics to give your team an look into your data and measure and understand what’s keeping your readers on the page.
With Chartbeat, publishers can build loyal audiences across desktop, social, and mobile platforms with real-time and historical editorial analytics. Digital publishing organizations use Chartbeat to understand what makes their content engaging. Partnering with over 60,000 media brands across 70+ countries, Chartbeat’s real-time and historical dashboards, headline testing and in-page optimization tools, robust reporting, and more help the world’s media organizations understand, measure, and build value from the attention earned by their written and video content.
Chartbeat provides tools for tracking real-time and historical audience analytics to drive reader engagement. Also, customers can view real-time engagement data and homepage curation opportunities through an intuitive overlay on their websites. Finally, users can run A/B and multivariate tests on their homepage using optimization tools like Headline Testing and Image Testing.
Chartbeat is a unique web analytics tool designed for content publishing platforms. Because of this its features are very specifically oriented to these types of platforms. If you are not a publisher, this tool might not be for you. Otherwise, Chartbeat is a good option because it features a great headline testing tool, an easy-to-use dashboard, and it reports in real-time.
We classified Chartbeat as Web Analytics. In addition, Chartbeat is proprietary software.
Product of Chartbeat Inc.
Founded in 2009
Basic
Intended for smaller-sized companies with up to 500.000 monthly page views.
Price
On request
Plus
Intended for mid-sized companies with up to 1 million monthly page views.
Price
On request
Premium
Intended for large and mid-sized companies with over 5 million monthly page views.
Price
On request
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Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
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What the features and terms on this page mean, in our glossary.
Chartbeat is most commonly used by large enterprises. In addition, Chartbeat specifically targets digital media and publishing companies around the world.
Chartbeat is a paid analytics tool for large enterprises and Google Analytics is a free analytics tool for companies of all sizes. On a more functional level, Chartbeat is all about real-time analytics to understand how your audience is connecting with your content in the moment. Google Analytics offers a more overall picture based on historical data.
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