Woopra is a 'real-time Web tracking and analysis application' and it shows a lot of promise. They are looking for beta testers for their new release, so I applied, of course. There are web and desktop versions of the application and you can watch your visitors in real time.
Some of the capabilities of Woopra are very powerful and a lot of fun. You can see at a glance how many visitors are using which browser and the country they are in. There is even a facility which lets you use Google maps to zone in on where the signal is coming from, but I think this is more likely to be their ISP than their residence.
Live visitors on the site can be tagged so next time they log on you will recognize them.
The developers are working on a chat facility, which apparently lets you talk to your visitors. I really think this is something I will have to stop myself from using too much. I can just imagine someone coming to Solundria and me suddenly asking them why they didn't buy a Snappy Birthday Game! The thought of it is just so comical. There will also be an option to add a chat button to the site, so that visitors can talk to you when you are available. This sounds like a really valuable feature as I have little contact with my visitors. You can set it up to give audible alerts when you set it up to report certain events. I can see it now... Ding Dong "Someone is on the Birthday game page! Quick - get them tagged and then if they leave ask them 'Hey why u not buy a game!'hee hee the mind boggles!"
My ISP provided me with $25 of free Facebook vouchers and it really increased the traffic to the site. I set it up for the homepage but if I were to pay for more I think I would drop my visitors at the Snappy Birthday Pages.
Solundria has been really dead since the voucher ran out and the traffic has virtually stopped. In fact I've never seen a day this slow before. I haven't had one visitor today! This happened yesterday too but the traffic suddenly shot up to 25 later in the day. Something has changed how my hits are recorded and I will have to check this out.
I set up the Google Web Optimiser AB experiment on my home page too. This serves one of 2 different home pages each time a visitor arrives. Then it keeps a record of which page gets the most visitors to play Solundria. Using Google's web optimiser and woopra javascript code blocks on the same page may be slowing my traffic report but I really cant understand how this could be happening.
The optimiser will run until it has enough data but at this rate I'm not holding my breath!
I used slick map to make a site map and add it to my footer on all pages. This really helped me structure the site better and I;ve added more pages like "About Us" and "Principles"
Links to be added....
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
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