Hi
I am working on a very rudimentary analytics tool for a couple of projects.
I only capture page views, unique visitors (a hash), referrals, timeOnSite, agent info, load time for each page and every hour I aggregate the result and store them on a CDN. I also have some alerts that are triggered and sent immediately.
This leads to a cost effective and simple solution... but I am totally missing the real-time statistics, so far I am ok with this, I only review the results once or twice a day or when an alert is triggered.
But I was wondering if there is something important that I am missing without the real time information?
Why is the real time information useful for you?
How much do you spend reviewing the real time analytics?
Thank you.
Only place it's been asked for by an operations team is during large (1m+) email sends to ensure there isn't a spike in traffic to error pages.