Woopra vs Google Analytics
ADVERTISEMENTSWoopra – “The next Generation of Web Tracking and Analytics”
Google Analytics – “Google Analytics helps identify the keywords, Ads, Referrals, and campaigns the most to your bottom line”
What is Woopra
Woopra is a robust web-tracking & analysis tool that works perfectly on any website. It is mainly targeted for small to medium websites ranging from few hundreds up to tens of thousands of daily page views.
Essentially, it is targeted for blogs interested in the most minuscule details of every single action. In addition, Woopra provides a precise real-time streaming of every single activity on the website.
Woopra also features a clean interface, including many graphical visualization components, such as charts, maps, panels… Along with many other clean and advanced options that make Woopra an ideal solution for webmasters who desire to discern all the aspects of their website.
After reading above introduction of Woopra I felt like why some one will creates one more Analytics tool to compete to Google Analytics. Google Analytics is already providing some of those features which woopra is going to provide so what’s use. But then I felt “people are not fool to compete with Google giving same functionally like Google Analytics”. it has to be some thing more then that. So I decided to give a look at woopra features
Here is list of Woopra Analytics Features
- Live Tracking
- Rich Interface
- Visitor Tagging
- Instance Messaging
- Real Time Analytics
- Custom Notification
- Developer Tool
Now if we compare this with Google Analytics then we will find none of this features are provided by Google Analytics
Let me discuss some of issue/Disadvantages/Cons of Woopra over Google Analytics.
- I have registered for woopra but after you add site for analytics it requires approval. it takes up to 7 business days to receive Approval/Response of added site. Which is not a case for Google analytics
- Real Time Analytics is one of features of Woopra, if its going to be real time then think about you site bandwidth and website loading time. I am sure it’s going to be increased by marginal percentag
- Goal Conversion one of most powerful features of Google analytics for every webmaster is missing in Woopra
- Google Analytics has easier method of adding tracking code on any blog, website. But Woopra has support only for wordpress. Woopra provides Wordpress plugin
- Woopra is basically meant only for blogs with average 10k user traffic. So blogs with higher traffic wont be able to use this, Google Analytics is free for every one irrespective of site traffic
- Woopra is currently in beta mode, Woopra owner cannot guarantee it will be free after official release but they will be keeping free plans with limited functionality.
For a second If you give a thought on features of woopra then you will be more happier
With Woopra then Google analytics
Real Time Analytics – if you have ever created your blog then u might know how much impartment is to read the minds of your probable visitor and this feature just added extra bits to Your visitor controlling capability
I loved Instance Messaging of Woopra. Think of this your site visitor is looking at your blog post and from woopra you can instantly message him and get feedback about your blog or Article he was reading. This is going to be revolutionary in blogging aspects.
Developer tool Today every new services has some kind of API to allow developers to code their creativity and create tools, gadgets, widget or give more fine touch with their own specifications and customization which helps non tech-no as well as techno bloggers
See below chart which compares Google Analytics to Woopra
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I haven’t personally seen any of these features; my blog is still pending for Approval. Will post inside images of Woopra analytics and if possible Video too :)
I am eager to experience Woopra Analytics can’t wait for long :P
Reader Comments
How much time does it take to approve a website please ?
I think Google Analytics helps to keep an eye on our site.
Hi there! thanks for the enlightenment. Currently i am using woopra in my website. I have noticed that my website is loading really slow. In your post “Real Time Analytics is one of features of Woopra, if its going to be real time then think about you site bandwidth and website loading time. I am sure it’s going to be increased by marginal percentage”
I think this is the main reason why i experience slow loading time in my website…
Thanks for sharing. Keep it up.
I have yet to try Woopra, however being a long time user of Google Analytics, I can pose this one comment to you all. If you are a seasoned user of Google Analytics or Woopra… Does it work for you? I don’t really see anything special about Woopra that you can’t achieve with the new Google Analytics. Especially if you are an in-depth user or GA! But for any new users. Try them both, you may like one over the other. Don’t limit yourself. I personally am very happy with Google.
Considering spell and grammar checking your blog posts. They are full of grammatical errors. Also if your going to refer to someone’s product name use proper case “Woopra”. Just seems lazy to me.
Forgive my tardiness in responding to this post.
First, thanks for tackling the comparison of Woopra to Google Analytics. At the time you wrote this, we were new into our beta testing round and were only accepting beta testers by random approval processes. This meant that people signed up when a round was open for beta testers and we randomly approved folks. It could take a few minutes or few months, as we added beta testers to our team as we needed them and had space available. There was never an “approval” hoop to jump through nor a 7 day waiting period.
This move from beta also changes the pageview limit. That was in place to allow the most number of beta testers while keeping our costs for servers low. We felt it was more important for people to test drive Woorpa free during our beta phase.
As I type this now, in October 2009, we are about to come out of beta and there will no longer be a waiting time period. Add your site instantly.
We’ve done extensive testing of our JavaScript and bandwidth issues and it is less than Google Analytics. What is hard for people to understand is that the stats are sent to our servers, then we do the heavy lifting to get them into the Woopra Desktop Client, the Woopra Web App, and eventually to the mobile version. The issues you mention about being a drag on your site for real-time stats isn’t there. There is none.
We’ve added a ton of features during the beta test, so it would be fun if you updated this comparison accordingly, including customizable reports, something Google doesn’t offer.
As someone else has corrected, you have always been able to add Woopra to any site. There is a WordPress Plugin officially supported by Woopra, and community generated plugins and ad-ons for other platforms, but Woopra works on any site that will accept JavaScript.
If you would like help or more information to update this post, or the others on Woopra, just ask. We’re on twitter and in our Woopra Forums, always ready to help. Thanks!