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I don't know much about mixpanel, how is it better and/or different than Google Analytics? Congrats on the funding.

by suking 15y ago

jmtame 15y ago
Google Analytics has a delay. Mixpanel is real-time and specifically aimed at certain events that you specify. So when someone clicks your sign up button, it fires an AJAX call and you see them do it in real-time, instantly.
- bentlegen 15y ago
  I like what MixPanel is doing, but I don't think it's fair to say that GA has a 24 hour delay. It's nothing close to real-time, but you can get results from the past few hours.
  - jmtame 15y ago
    I'm looking at Google Analytics right now for my web site, but all I can see is yesterday's data. Is there somewhere to see the data collected today? Edit: I use both Analytics and Mixpanel, they're both great services. Google has its strengths, but I don't think event tracking and immediate feedback is one of them, which is where Mixpanel comes in.
    - benologist 15y ago
      Click the date select stuff, you can choose today and it'll give you whatever data it's processed for today, but by default it only shows up to yesterday.
  - rokhayakebe 15y ago
    I am not a user of MP, but I can tell you once you go Real Time with your Analytics there just isn't a way for you to go back to even 5-minute-delay.
avichal 15y ago
I'm a big MixPanel fan. We use it at my company. The big differences: a) More real-time. Nothing is 100% realtime quite yet but MixPanel is by far the best. b) Event driven - GA is pageviews driven, KissMetrics (also a fantastic product) is funnel driven. If you care about tracking key events and tagging those events with metadata that you can slice-and-dice later, MixPanel is the best solution. c) API - really great and simple API to get data in and get data out. This makes it easy to integrate MixPanel across multiple touchpoints (mobile app + web) for example, and have control over how you make those big piles of data interact/merge/display. Congrats on the funding guys!
edanm 15y ago
We use it in our product. It's incredibly easy to set up, and the entire focus is on tracking events happening in your code. I.e., we have an event for people pressing the login button, another event for people actually logging in, an event for posting a message, etc. Very simple to set up, and now gives us real-time analytics (and funnels) on how many people press login vs. actually login, etc. And those are just small examples - we have a huge range of events that we track, things we care about.

I don't know much about mixpanel, how is it better and/or different than Google Analytics? Congrats on the funding.

by suking 15y ago

I don't know much about mixpanel, how is it better and/or different than Google Analytics? Congrats on the funding.

Google Analytics has a delay. Mixpanel is real-time and specifically aimed at certain events that you specify. So when someone clicks your sign up button, it fires an AJAX call and you see them do it in real-time, instantly.

bentlegen 15y ago
I like what MixPanel is doing, but I don't think it's fair to say that GA has a 24 hour delay. It's nothing close to real-time, but you can get results from the past few hours.
- jmtame 15y ago
  I'm looking at Google Analytics right now for my web site, but all I can see is yesterday's data. Is there somewhere to see the data collected today? Edit: I use both Analytics and Mixpanel, they're both great services. Google has its strengths, but I don't think event tracking and immediate feedback is one of them, which is where Mixpanel comes in.
  - benologist 15y ago
    Click the date select stuff, you can choose today and it'll give you whatever data it's processed for today, but by default it only shows up to yesterday.
- rokhayakebe 15y ago
  I am not a user of MP, but I can tell you once you go Real Time with your Analytics there just isn't a way for you to go back to even 5-minute-delay.

avichal 15y ago

I'm a big MixPanel fan. We use it at my company. The big differences: a) More real-time. Nothing is 100% realtime quite yet but MixPanel is by far the best. b) Event driven - GA is pageviews driven, KissMetrics (also a fantastic product) is funnel driven. If you care about tracking key events and tagging those events with metadata that you can slice-and-dice later, MixPanel is the best solution. c) API - really great and simple API to get data in and get data out. This makes it easy to integrate MixPanel across multiple touchpoints (mobile app + web) for example, and have control over how you make those big piles of data interact/merge/display. Congrats on the funding guys!

edanm 15y ago

We use it in our product. It's incredibly easy to set up, and the entire focus is on tracking events happening in your code. I.e., we have an event for people pressing the login button, another event for people actually logging in, an event for posting a message, etc. Very simple to set up, and now gives us real-time analytics (and funnels) on how many people press login vs. actually login, etc. And those are just small examples - we have a huge range of events that we track, things we care about.