I was having a look at another web site’s page source and I was wondering about a script tag in its footer. This is how I found Woopra. ‘Woopra is the world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application.’ states the frontpage of Woopra’s web site. Ok, I’ll give it a shot.
When I registered my Woopra account, I almost instantly got a email with the registration confirmation link. ‘Cool’ was my thought, ‘now I’m checking out how feature rich this thing is’. After registration, you have to add a web site profile. I did that and was checking my mail account every few hours for the approval confirmation. After several hours and no response I got a little nervous and went to the Woopra Forums to check out if there’s something about the approval time. Indeed, there are quite many topics about the site approvals. This made me ‘a little’ pissed because they haven’t stated this anywhere. Just a line like ‘during beta, it may take several weeks to get your web site approved for Woopra ‘ or something like that would have make things clear. Ok, I’ll wait.
8 days later my site got approved. Fired up the Woopra Client and was quite impressed by the UI (User Interface). Several days and X tests later I feel that Woopra is not really worth the hype. There are only a few features which makes Woopra different from other statistic app’s: the rich user interface, the real time analytics and the proactive chat function. I have the real time analytics with my PMetrics account, don’t need the proactive chat function (and I personally hate it when I get interrupted by those marketing assistants or whoever while browsing a site) and for the rich UI, there’s something in the pipe: Google Analytics AIR (Screenshots)
Beside all that, the collected statistic results were far away from my other stats software (AWStats, Webalizer, Google Analytics and PMetrics).
Woopra’s competitors do not sleep and I think we can expect some new things soon. Time will tell.
Further readings:
Gob
Woopra is definitively not ready now. It doesn’t have many great new features and most of them can be found at other competing services as well.
Maybe just wait until the thing is out of beta, but for now, it’s not worth the time.
August 14th, 2008 4:37 pm