Woopra is here for iPad

Woopra is one of the best apps for monitoring live site traffic. Some time ago I did a review Of the desktop application, there is also a version for Google Chrome and just now has been updated the version that only existed for iPhone, in a spectacular 2.0 universal version that is compatible with the iPad.

The design has been kept vertical, as was the previous version, although with lower accesses that allow you to navigate without going / coming. Now it allows notifications and you can have several sites active at the same time just waiting for notifications of specific alerts such as:

• When a user enters a specific country, where we have a special campaign.
• When a user who has been on the site returns for more than 50 occasions.
• When a user arrives at the word “AutoCAD 2012”
• When the site reaches more than 20 concurrent visits
• When a user communicates with Geofumadas through chat (Now supports chat)

The main board is divided into 6 sections, the same that has the desktop application in the control command:

1. The graph of how many visitors there are at the moment, in this case there is 15
2. The percentage between new and recurring visitors, in this case 3 of 12 already had navigated in Geofumadas
3. The graph of visits per hour, separating the visitors from the page views. As you can see, at 3 in the afternoon in Mexican time, 1,669 visits and a total of 3,929 actions have arrived
4. A kind of thermometer separates those who are writing in the blog, those who are only reading and those who have remained static thinking about the Item of 37.5 seconds.
5. The map with visitors
6. The main sources of visit
7. The colors of the visitors according to the particular lettering. I use yellow for first-time arrivals, orange for those who have not been to the site 5 times, brown for the 5-10 range, green for 10-25, and red for over 25 visits. This allows us to understand some weekly cycles, the impact of a retweet or the reach of a recently uploaded post.
8. In the other panel is the type the keywords of those who arrive from the search engines
9. And the last panel shows the country with the most visitors, inside is the detail of visitors by country.

Each of the panels has access to more details, for example, if the visitor list is selected, you can see all the current ones with basic summaries but when selecting it you can see details like the one shown below: Visitor 149,699 connects from Panama, uses Internet Explorer with Windows Vista, has reached the site 9 times, has viewed 69 pages in total, has done 69 actions in an approximate connection time of two hours since its first visit, which was 34 days ago.

Of the best, historical visitors, which can only be seen in the application for the iPad, also filtered searches are much easier.

This type of data is usually useful for sites, because in short, statistics can help improve the way content is arranged to improve the browsing experience. Impossible to know who the user on the other side is, just the city from where they come and the browsing behavior they have had -Unless of course the translator of Get well Which has been connected to the site over 500 times and I know you live on the outskirts of Peru Lima-. Too -In leisure time- Seeing the behavior of users who come and go between pages also helps to improve hyperlinks, because whoever wrote knows what is the article that responds to the reason for arrival, so the entry is modified leaving a link to that page or updating a Content that is known has changed over time or whose subject was temporary.

Every six months the data is deleted, depending on the account you have with Woopra. So the data is not eternal, nor are the user numbers that change every time the browser cache is cleared or incognito mode is used.

Another utility that I have had is the alert of the fallen site, I had a hard time doing it, since in the year I Has occurred twice I have learned to detect it to enter and prevent falling. It was about to happen to me a few weeks ago, for the same reason, to insist on a template that I will end up discarding completely. The way to detect it is that users try to open the same page more than three times in less than a minute, if that happens for a period of 10 minutes Apache will raise an alert and Hostgator will suspend the site with a ticket to solve problems. The last time I made the attempt with the renewals of the Arthemia template, and I monitored the behavior with Woopra, when I least expected it, in a rush hour of 4 PM Mexico time the alert arrived and then I went up, changed the template and learned that that theme, although attractive, is not viable for sites with many images.

Although it was announced since September, until now it can be downloaded; For now, to try it, it brings greater ease in handling reports, although from the outset it would be better if it made better backward analysis tools, since its main emphasis is on real time, so Google Analytics is still necessary although not for daily inquiries but for weekly trends. They have announced that they are building a version for Android, which will surely grow its demand.