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Real time? I might ditch Google Analytics and Statcounter (using both, mainly because statcounter is near real time, you just have to know when you're linked by

Real time? I might ditch Google Analytics and Statcounter (using both, mainly because statcounter is near real time, you just have to know when you're linked by Slashdot or Digg!) for Yahoo if it works great. Will give it a try for sure!

iamdave 18y ago
That was the biggest selling point for me as well. Up to the minute results is huge when it comes to things like running blog promotions or campaigns.
- qhoxie 18y ago
  True for me too. I like GA but the delayed results can be really frustrating.
  - zach 18y ago
    For as often as my co-founder and I check GA for our medium-traffic site, I'm a little concerned for our productivity if we can see analytics in real-time!
    - iamdave 18y ago
      That's actually a good point. I wonder if there will be a way to maybe get alerts with YA. Maybe even write a small desktop application that gives you an at a glance look at what's going on. If that happens, GA will be sunk.
gcv 18y ago
Any reason you don't use Mint (haveamint.com)?
- FiReaNG3L 18y ago
  Not free :)
- jonknee 18y ago
  It can easily kill your server. The last thing you want to do while having high traffic is kill your stats. You can think ahead and cache your pages, but you can't cache your self-hosted real time stats.
sant0sk1 18y ago
My hope is that this pushes Google to provide real-time stats too. That way I don't have to do that migration thang :)
- Harkins 18y ago
  Migration will be very fast: Google Analytics does not allow you to export your traffic data.
DennisMortensen 18y ago
Hey there.. >>Real time? - Great for Yahoo if it works. It actually works very well, and we had a 7 second latency only - in the days of IndexTools. And the reason for only using the ‘up to the minute’ in Yahoo! marketing material, was to make sure we under promised and over delivered :-) Cheers d. Dennis R. Mortensen, Director of Data Insights at Yahoo! Blog: http://visualrevenue.com/blog http://visualrevenue.com/blog Book: http://visualrevenue.com/blog/yahoo-analytics-book http://visualrevenue.com/blog/yahoo-analytics-book

iamdave 18y ago

That was the biggest selling point for me as well. Up to the minute results is huge when it comes to things like running blog promotions or campaigns.

qhoxie 18y ago
True for me too. I like GA but the delayed results can be really frustrating.
- zach 18y ago
  For as often as my co-founder and I check GA for our medium-traffic site, I'm a little concerned for our productivity if we can see analytics in real-time!
  - iamdave 18y ago
    That's actually a good point. I wonder if there will be a way to maybe get alerts with YA. Maybe even write a small desktop application that gives you an at a glance look at what's going on. If that happens, GA will be sunk.

gcv 18y ago

Any reason you don't use Mint (haveamint.com)?

FiReaNG3L 18y ago
Not free :)
jonknee 18y ago
It can easily kill your server. The last thing you want to do while having high traffic is kill your stats. You can think ahead and cache your pages, but you can't cache your self-hosted real time stats.

sant0sk1 18y ago

My hope is that this pushes Google to provide real-time stats too. That way I don't have to do that migration thang :)

Harkins 18y ago
Migration will be very fast: Google Analytics does not allow you to export your traffic data.

DennisMortensen 18y ago

Hey there.. >>Real time? - Great for Yahoo if it works. It actually works very well, and we had a 7 second latency only - in the days of IndexTools. And the reason for only using the ‘up to the minute’ in Yahoo! marketing material, was to make sure we under promised and over delivered :-) Cheers d. Dennis R. Mortensen, Director of Data Insights at Yahoo! Blog: http://visualrevenue.com/blog http://visualrevenue.com/blog Book: http://visualrevenue.com/blog/yahoo-analytics-book http://visualrevenue.com/blog/yahoo-analytics-book