Real time, rich interface live website visitor tracking
April 3rd, 2008
Just finished watching a video on Woopra, a service/app that intends to provide real time information on the people visiting a website at the moment of the analysis.
It’s really neat watching people logging on the the website, knowing where they’re from, even getting their Gravatars, all in real-time.
The interface aparently needs a bit of polishing, but they provide some nice visualizations, including a world map of where your visitors are coming from.
One drawback I can see saw far is it’s requirement of a client-side app to be installed on the user’s machine. Maybe if it was written in Flex/AIR it could be run both as a desktop and as a web application using the same code base. Since I haven’t downloaded the software yet, I can’t comment that far.
My website is pending approval, and I plan to get back on it when I give Woopra a test run.