People love Google Analytics. They can't get over the amount of information it has. Sure folks do want to see there information and they might enjoy the real time you guys give them.
BUT, they aren't going to waste away their day doing something unproductive... Looking at visitors is unproductive. The average real blogger only looks at stats once a month or so. I know from experience that it gets old to look at stats and the live stats might be something cool, but over time the people that look at the live stats will also get bored and move back to something like google...
I hope that helps. Its a good idea though... I do like the concept.
> BUT, they aren't going to waste away their day doing something
> unproductive... Looking at visitors is unproductive. The average real
> blogger only looks at stats once a month or so. I know from experience
> that it gets old to look at stats and the live stats might be something
> cool, but over time the people that look at the live stats will also get
> bored and move back to something like google...
I think I understand what you mean, in the pratice we did the following: from one hand we tried hard to make real time logs even if time consuming useful because you just see patterns that are not visible via analytics.
Another feature is adsense click tracking (only PRO for now), this makes
you able to check who is clicking on your site/blog, so if you are running
an AD-founded site you know if traffic from google is paying your bill
more compared of other referers and so on.
On the other side we added a small section of history in LLOOGG, this
works for the free accounts too, basically you can see over the time
unique visitors, page views, returning visitors, with simple graphs very
similar to the ones of feedburner. You can select to view history stats
by day, month, year and if you want to use or not a logarithmic scale.
After one year we are pretty sure that the product is useful, our main concern
is if it is useful enough for the target audience to pay for it, and even if so,
how many free accounts we need to run in order to be able to get 1 paying user? Will this single paying user pay for all the free accounts we need to get it? We are not sure the answer here is yes. To this add that we are in Italy and here to setup an way to allow US people to pay is not that simple. And no, Italy is not a good market for paying products, people are not comfortable paying for online services for a lot of reasons.
Have you thought about posting this kind of information on your front page? I would have loved to know about:
Another feature is adsense click tracking (only PRO for now), this makes you able to check who is clicking on your site/blog, so if you are running an AD-founded site you know if traffic from google is paying your bill more compared of other referers and so on.
On the other side we added a small section of history in LLOOGG, this works for the free accounts too, basically you can see over the time unique visitors, page views, returning visitors, with simple graphs very similar to the ones of feedburner. You can select to view history stats by day, month, year and if you want to use or not a logarithmic scale.
BUT, they aren't going to waste away their day doing something unproductive... Looking at visitors is unproductive. The average real blogger only looks at stats once a month or so. I know from experience that it gets old to look at stats and the live stats might be something cool, but over time the people that look at the live stats will also get bored and move back to something like google...
I hope that helps. Its a good idea though... I do like the concept.