Woopra... Thoughts.
Awhile back I put myself in to try out Woopra, this fancy web stats app thing. I finally got my approval yesterday.
I'm impressed. Sort of.
The "sort of" part being the only operating system I was actually successful at installing their stat viewing software on was Windows (running in VirualBox on my Ubuntu machine).
On Mac OS X, I installed the beta of Java 6 and was able to install it (after finding a tutorial on how to install it on someone's blog), but upon trying to load the program... errors.
On Linux, the shell script to install it appears to be borked.
Windows... Works fine on install. At least I had a copy of Windows I could try it on. Grumble.
It's neat to see your live stats... but after all the pain with fiddling with Mac and Linux only to give up and install it Windows? Didn't really make it feel very worth it.
It's the first time I hear
It's the first time I hear (read) about Woopra. For my / our websites, we use GoogleAnalytics. I think it's not as complet as that, but you don't need to instal anything on the computer, so it's a better cros-platform!
I use Google Analytics as
I use Google Analytics as well. It's just that Woopra's the "new hotness" at this point. It's killer feature is that it updates in real time, so if I go in and look at my stats right now, it will show that I'm on the website right now, along with a bunch of data about what browser I'm using, OS, etc. I'm sure Woopra will be better cross-platform in time, I just think that they're early beta.
That said, Google Analytics is still the more practical choice... and it collects more useful data (to me at least) than Woopra does.
Ah, it's just that Woopra is
Ah, it's just that Woopra is the new Hip. That explains why I hadn't heard about it! I'll keep an eye open to see how it goes for you once it's a bit more linux friendly!
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