Beta Testing Woopra

by Richard Reeve on January 19, 2009

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One of the bonuses for attending WordCamp Las Vegas was getting an invite to beta test Woopra.  It’s been a bit rocky getting things set up, but I’m glad I persisted.  Woopra does amazing real time analytics of your site, so that you can see how many people are visiting live, get all sort of geographical and IP info about them, and then (now check this out) you can begin a chat conversation with them through the interface.

While the beta invites are not being thrown around too freely, I suggest you go over to Woopra and read up on where the analytics curve is jumping to.  Seeing folks arrive and leave, watching them change pages on the blog…it’s nothing short of  mind boggling.

Who knows, maybe you’ll be the first person I reach through the Woopra portal and say hello to when your visiting Catskill Cottage Seed.

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  • Mitch
    I went to try it out but it says it requires an activation code, where do you get one of these?
  • I'm really curious about this. how does contacting them work?
    And are you passing out invites?
  • Ben, I emailed you what I know, thanks for asking.
  • Zoe
    Wow, is the number of statistics overwhelming? Or are they simply more intriguing than Google Analytics statistics, for example?

    <abbr>Zoe´s last blog post..A Response: Declining Temptation</abbr>
  • Hey Zoe,
    It's a bit like the cockpit of the millennium falcon at first...but like all tools we learn to look for what's useful. What excites me is that I'll be able to learn how best to announce my posts in places like twitter, because you get to see the effect of those announcements in real time. The map of the world starts lighting up and to say its a thrill is an understatement...actually lets revise the analogy. The wordpress dashboard is the millennium falcon cockpit, and woopra is like mission control....
  • lunasoul
    How do the visitors register? When you try to connect, what do you see? Am I a little anonymous blinking light in Japan, along with many others? Can you say "Hello" in thirty different languages or more? About your questions: Japan is feeling the bite of the recession in a big way. Life at the kindy is marvelous. Today I talked to my dear friend, Min, who was in a better place. It was so nice to hear him laugh and we blew each other kisses over the phone. Soothing happiness. <----What I also wish for you. I'm finally feeling the desire to break my emotional and physical immobilization. What will come out of the chrysalis? Take care.
  • Hi Kim,
    I think it's kind of tricky, as visitors might feel a bit violated. I tried to connect with four of the fifty visitors when I posted this last night ...none responded. None the less, seeing the world map light up from every continent was an awesome expeience of how global this social media activity truly is.
    So how is Japan these days?
  • lunasoul
    I wonder how that would feel, being invited to go through the Woopra Portal? Luna through the Looking Glass? I just imagine a hologram of you, Richard, reaching out through my computer screen, clasping my hand and pulling me in. Wheee! Freaky.
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