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Analyze window.performance data in real-time for your website

14 points by joshfraser 15y ago

sparkly 15y ago
cool!
dsl 15y ago
After some digging I found the link to the actual "data porn", pretty cool. http://www.torbit.com/insight/standard-features http://www.torbit.com/insight/standard-features
- zackzackzack 15y ago
  I wonder which graphing library they use for creating these. It looks like Microsoft office but better designed. Google charts? And I wonder how they handle statistics. They are just providing graphics and trendlines as far as I can tell, and encouraging users to draw conclusions. They are capturing the entire population they are sampling from, but even then it feels like there might be some pitfalls in the types of conclusions that might be drawn by an untrained web property owner. Edit: deleted a repeated sentence.
  - joshfraser 15y ago
    We get that question a lot. The graphing library we use is Highcharts. We think a lot about the question of how we present the data. We'll try and help users come to the right conclusions when we can, but the end of the day, it's just a tool and it's up to our users what they do with the data.
    - zackzackzack 15y ago
      What do you think of Highcharts? Why pay for the library instead of using something like d3.js?
    - joshfraser 15y ago
      We get enough compliments on Highcharts that it was well worth the money. It's an easy decision as the price isn't prohibitive for a business.
      - zackzackzack 15y ago
        Oh, yeah, that makes sense. I forget sometimes that everybody on earth isn't a data nerd and that Microsoft Office is used globally to do trillions of dollars of business every day. Silly me. Thanks for the reality check.
joshfraser 15y ago
Hopefully, it's obvious, but you can get this service for free. For anyone who decides to upgrade, use the coupon code "hotdataporn" to take 20% off the price.
ycommenter 15y ago
Good stuff, will try it out, congrats on the milestone Torbit team!
sciurus 15y ago
There's also New Relic's end user monitoring. http://blog.newrelic.com/2011/05/17/how-rum-works/ http://blog.newrelic.com/2011/05/17/how-rum-works/

14 points by joshfraser 15y ago

cool!

dsl 15y ago

After some digging I found the link to the actual "data porn", pretty cool. http://www.torbit.com/insight/standard-features http://www.torbit.com/insight/standard-features

zackzackzack 15y ago
I wonder which graphing library they use for creating these. It looks like Microsoft office but better designed. Google charts? And I wonder how they handle statistics. They are just providing graphics and trendlines as far as I can tell, and encouraging users to draw conclusions. They are capturing the entire population they are sampling from, but even then it feels like there might be some pitfalls in the types of conclusions that might be drawn by an untrained web property owner. Edit: deleted a repeated sentence.
- joshfraser 15y ago
  We get that question a lot. The graphing library we use is Highcharts. We think a lot about the question of how we present the data. We'll try and help users come to the right conclusions when we can, but the end of the day, it's just a tool and it's up to our users what they do with the data.
  - zackzackzack 15y ago
    What do you think of Highcharts? Why pay for the library instead of using something like d3.js?
  - joshfraser 15y ago
    We get enough compliments on Highcharts that it was well worth the money. It's an easy decision as the price isn't prohibitive for a business.
    - zackzackzack 15y ago
      Oh, yeah, that makes sense. I forget sometimes that everybody on earth isn't a data nerd and that Microsoft Office is used globally to do trillions of dollars of business every day. Silly me. Thanks for the reality check.

joshfraser 15y ago

Hopefully, it's obvious, but you can get this service for free. For anyone who decides to upgrade, use the coupon code "hotdataporn" to take 20% off the price.

ycommenter 15y ago

Good stuff, will try it out, congrats on the milestone Torbit team!

sciurus 15y ago

There's also New Relic's end user monitoring. http://blog.newrelic.com/2011/05/17/how-rum-works/ http://blog.newrelic.com/2011/05/17/how-rum-works/