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This looks interesting. If I were critiquing the display, I'd say sub out the various browsers and os's with icons of each for readability, with icons for bots

This looks interesting. If I were critiquing the display, I'd say sub out the various browsers and os's with icons of each for readability, with icons for bots and the like as well .if a non-unique user accesses the page while his last request is still within some time period, increment a counter on his next request. Each log entry's display definitely needs to be simplified, and the real-time stat box in the upper-right should update, and give a 'since' time, as in (33 unique visitors since midnight) with an option to reset. Also, you should allow users to pause or slow down the display of traffic with a bar across the top of the log display indicating how many requests are pending display. As for monetization: your target audience is fairly narrow, though if you cleaned it up somewhat, it could not only serve the needs of a given web-strategy team (who'd like the real-time stats), and it could be an effective alert method for folks who don't have that built in. I'm not sure what an annual revenue stream would look like, given the size of the target audience. If you don't have a potential revenue stream, your options for getting investment capital are limited. (If it were me, I'd sell to interested parties.) The most important thing is the business model. You provide a service: that of seeing real-time updates on website traffic, by page, with a clear and intuitive display, allowing a company's analysts to get an instant sense of their traffic. That's your core business. Graphs and traffic stats are covered in the market, focus the business model on what isn't covered yet. You could do quite a bit with the display, making it more 'game-like', and even provide comparisons with other sites that you track.

antirez 18y ago
> If I were critiquing the display, I'd say sub out the various browsers and os's with icons of each for readability, with icons for bots and the like as well. Right, I agree about this. Bots are not a concern since the tracking is via javascript that will filter every kind of bot unable to run javascript (for now 100% but I guess at some point will'll start to see this kind of bots). > As for monetization: your target audience is fairly narrow, though if you cleaned it up somewhat, it could not only serve the needs of a given web-strategy team (who'd like the real-time stats), and it could be an effective alert method for folks who don't have that built in. Exactly what we think is that for this for succeed we basically need a way to have more or less the same kind of user base as feedburner. > (If it were me, I'd sell to interested parties.) I think we'll go for this option even if it is a bit sad. I build other products in the past and I reached good deals, but I'm starting to be very sad of the fact I can't build a product that just is a real busines: I give a service, people give me money. > You could do quite a bit with the display, making it more 'game-like', and even provide comparisons with other sites that you track. This is an important point as well, for example AFAIK Analytics does not give any public API in order to get information about the number of pageviews/visits a blog is doing. An opt-in stuff in the preference (again feedburner alike) may do the trick along with some kind of widget to show how much visitors you have and even real time logs to your readers. Thank you for the feedback

antirez 18y ago

> If I were critiquing the display, I'd say sub out the various browsers and os's with icons of each for readability, with icons for bots and the like as well. Right, I agree about this. Bots are not a concern since the tracking is via javascript that will filter every kind of bot unable to run javascript (for now 100% but I guess at some point will'll start to see this kind of bots). > As for monetization: your target audience is fairly narrow, though if you cleaned it up somewhat, it could not only serve the needs of a given web-strategy team (who'd like the real-time stats), and it could be an effective alert method for folks who don't have that built in. Exactly what we think is that for this for succeed we basically need a way to have more or less the same kind of user base as feedburner. > (If it were me, I'd sell to interested parties.) I think we'll go for this option even if it is a bit sad. I build other products in the past and I reached good deals, but I'm starting to be very sad of the fact I can't build a product that just is a real busines: I give a service, people give me money. > You could do quite a bit with the display, making it more 'game-like', and even provide comparisons with other sites that you track. This is an important point as well, for example AFAIK Analytics does not give any public API in order to get information about the number of pageviews/visits a blog is doing. An opt-in stuff in the preference (again feedburner alike) may do the trick along with some kind of widget to show how much visitors you have and even real time logs to your readers. Thank you for the feedback