Comments on: Woopra – Does It Score Over Other Web Analytics Services?

By: Lorelle

Lorelle — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:51:53 +0000

@Matt Wilson: The video you are referring to, and a lot of the information, is from our beta time period. Anyone can sign up for free or for one of the paid plans with no wait time. All web analytics programs run the risk of downtime, including Google Analytics. Luckily, our CEO is one of the world’s experts in servers, so our servers set up are some of the best in the industry.

Woopra has been offering live real-time analytics since 2008, one of the first. We release updates to the servers frequently, rarely noticed by users, and are about to release the first major update to the Woopra Desktop Client since November and the feature set is very exciting.

Thanks for your input.

By: Matt Wilson

Matt Wilson — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:58:51 +0000

The fact that Woopra is a Dallas based company makes me love them and my hopes for their growth in the long run however if you’d like to make an apple-to-apple comparison, I would suggest you try out GetClicky as well and make a comparison with GetClicky vs Woopra. The features that are mentioned here except the real time chat option has been with GetClicky since I had opened my account with them (about 8 month now). You can follow real-time stats that has been enthused for Woopra on GetClicky along with the keywords / pages while you visitors are crawling.

While you were discussing cons, I think you had some misjudgments. First off, it is a desktop application. I don’t know about you but I don’t like to run 10 applications on my machine, I’d rather have Firefox / IE / Opera have my analytics / advertisement / emails etc. for me. Second, as far as CEO of Woopra mentioned on his video (watched on their blog) he says, they are queuing the new signups and will approve them as they add new servers to the system. Giving my analytics data to a start-up company that might make a mistake and by accident have a crash in their DB which will cause me to loose my analytics data is scary.

Having said all these negative things, I wish them true luck and hope they can grow this product to a level of maturity where they don’t have to roll-out changes daily basis and make this business successful.

By: Sylvie Parker

Sylvie Parker — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:46:32 +0000

I frankly don’t know whether Woopra is good or bad, but so far I haven’t experienced any problems while using it. But its still a new software, and we might just be counting our chickens before they hatch.

By: Jessica Alabama

Jessica Alabama — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:29:51 +0000

@Lorelle, I quite agree with you there. I have no fancy benchmarking tools for accurate measurements, but I notice no slowing down of my site after installing Woopra. I don’t know about earlier versions, but the current one is appreciably fast.

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By: Lorelle

Lorelle — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:59:35 +0000

Thanks for taking time to review and report on Woopra. We’re really excited to be coming out of beta. The next release will be out very soon and we’ve got some great things in the pipeline that are going to continue to rock the analytics world, so stay tuned.

As for Woopra being heavy on bandwidth and such, did you actually test it? We’d love to know what the load is, as our tests show it as much less than Google Analytics. All the heavy lifting is done by us on our servers, collecting the data and serving it up to the desktop client (which uses your computer’s CPU to crunch the data and display the eye candy stats and analytics), web app, and soon-to-be-released mobile app. So your site never sees the pain or load unlike self-hosted stats programs.

As for the support, we’d love to talk to you more about what that means. We have a small team but we all work overtime to help out on our forum, Twitter, blog, and other social services. We’d love to know what more you would need.

Thanks! And hold on. We’ve got some great stuff coming up!