Re:Forget Google Analytics, try realtime web statistics
by enomar on Friday April 10, 2009 @12:30PM
(#556269)
Scale. It's easy to give real time stats when you're only monitoring a few hundred sites. There's a lot more data to crunch when you're trying to monitor half the web.
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Re:Forget Google Analytics, try realtime web statistics
by _sgo4 on Friday April 10, 2009 @01:27PM
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getclicky.com monitors over 200,000 sites and it's real time. Sure it's challenging to provide that level of service but without challenge life is dull.
Re:Forget Google Analytics, try realtime web statistics
by enomar on Friday April 10, 2009 @01:52PM
(#556443)
I only meant to imply that providing such a feature is more work than a "few lines of code" when you're trying to monitor millions of sites in real time.
Re:Forget Google Analytics, try realtime web statistics
by _sgo4 on Friday April 10, 2009 @01:59PM
(#556469)
Oh, ok. I interpreted your comment to mean that no major service could pull real time analytics beacuse it's just too hard. Sure we're a lot smaller than Google but 200,000 is a pretty big number if I do say so myself.