Quick bugfix: It only seems to work if you include the "www." in the URL of the page. Why not just ask for the page-slug instead of the full URL?
EDIT: I can see this being really useful in a "opposition research" sort of way. It would be great to be able to view/compare multiple pages at the same time, and then try to highlight where one is going better than the other.
For pages that you manage, it's really not that useful when compared to the powerful analytics Facebook already provides through the insights tool.
I thought the full URL was easiest since you can copy and paste. For pages that are already being watched, the slug will take you to the page. However, some fb pages don't have vanity urls.
Edit: thanks for the feedback. Adding the ability to compare your page to competitors would be pretty nice.
Seems pretty cool, but the main graph at the top doesn't seem like a very helpful way to visualize data. It seems safe to assume that the vast majority of Facebook pages gain likes over time, and the graph has lower and upper bounds that are very close to those of the data which means you'll pretty much always have the same graph on every page. It doesn't really tell me anything.
For example, I just clicked on the first six reports you link to on your landing page, and the graph looks the same for all of them.
What exactly are you offering here -- a scraping and archival service? I'm presuming you're claiming "real-time" because Facebook page insights are already real-time [1], and you periodically scrape and archive that data [2]?
FB reports analytics in realtime, but not all social analytics companies fetch them multiple times an hour. It's impossible to get insights for a page without the owner's access token, so this just uses public data. Also, FB doesn't show how long posts are active, which I find most interesting.
Maybe you can add some smoothing in the graph being shown. According to FB insights this page got 5 likes in the morning, and there are no unlikes. If you visit public page, it will show +/- 5, but when logged in to the FB insights dashboard it is consistent at the top value.
We've used a whole heap of tools to try to track brand pages and it's always a pain the arse. No one has a clean interface like this and guys like SocialBakers charge like a wounded bull.
so what exactly does it do after i enter a URL? is it continuously scraping and gathering data to populate the graph? if that's the case, thanks cause this is a good tool to spy on my competition :)
Exactly. In addition to seeing how long your posts are active and which post types perform the best, you can learn a lot about your competition (or any other public page you're interested in)
Since FB doesn't provide a push API for analytics, the best we can do is poll. I felt that 10 minutes gives an accurate picture of the like/comment/share trajectory for posts.
EDIT: I can see this being really useful in a "opposition research" sort of way. It would be great to be able to view/compare multiple pages at the same time, and then try to highlight where one is going better than the other.
For pages that you manage, it's really not that useful when compared to the powerful analytics Facebook already provides through the insights tool.