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As in Woopra? (pronounced Wu-pra)

Woopra is an online website stats package that is currently in Beta. Hold on, no need to fall asleep! ( I saw those eyes glazing over!) Woopra makes monitoring your site stats fun (yes really)!

Sure it has all the usual graphs showing the most common web browsers that have visited your site and which sites are linking to you and so on. What makes Woopra stand out is that unlike other packages that only update their stats perhaps once a day, Woopra stats are live. Thanks to a world map you can actually see where each visitor is surfing from and you can see which pages they click on (including links that take them from your site) as they click! In fact you can even strike up an Instant Messenger type conversation with them (might freak then out though to think you’re watching them…).

Video of surfers hitting our website:

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The radar “blobs” show which of our sites is being visited (Woopra can monitor more than one site) and the name of the referring site is provided in yellow.

Woopra tracks over 40 different statistics providing information such as:

Visitor Browser (eg Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer)
Visitor Platform (eg Windows, Mac, Linux)
Visitor Screen Resolution
Visitor System Language
Visitor Country
Most Popular Pages
Landing Pages
Exit Pages
Most Popular Outgoing Links
Most Popular Downloads
Referring Sites
Referring Social Networks
Referring Search Engines
Search Keywords
and more…

You can “tag” visitors so the system will recognise them again next time, although it will automatically recognise registered users (eg if you have a blog)

Integration with your site is easy. Simply download the client software which is available for Windows, Mac OSX & Linux:

then add the tracking code to the bottom of each of your pages (if you are running a Blog you can install a special plugin instead).

We have been using Woopra for many months now, it was originally an invitation only beta, but is now open for anyone to apply. Sites are approved as capacity is added to their systems, so expect some delay before you are approved. 30,000 sites are already being monitored by Woopra. It is currently free while it’s in beta, and when it finally launches there will be free and paid packages available.

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