They are actually rather addicting!
Watching Shoppers Shop
It’s like the manager’s view in a big department store. First they watched your shopping behaviour through a one-way mirror. Now they have video cameras to track the patterns of where people walk, and ‘Club Cards’ to track the patterns of what people buy.
The One-Way Mirror
Google Analytics gives you a great view of your visitor stats and behaviour. But it’s updated once each day, and only lets you watch what the visitor did.
Interactive, Real Time Visitor Stats
I’ve been spending hours today watching my website visitors in real time with Woopra

It’s very interesting to watch people click through my sites - to see the pages they read, and watch how long they remain on each page.
Geo-Targetted
My aim is to gather an audience from the Mid-West United States, and present them with information about vacation and travel opportunities within my back yard, Northwestern Ontario.
By watching the visitor behaviour in real-time with Woopra, I can really see the difference in how visitors from different areas of the world use the site: people from Michigan go directly to pages with information about Michigan. People from India, Russia and China leave without clicking another page.
Are we ready for interactive stats?
Woopra lets you send a real time chat request!
With Woopra, you can ’see’ in real-time, when a visitor stalls at a certain point in the buying process - and you can send your visitor a chat request! A small window pops up in the lower left corner of their screen, and you receive a confirmation if they receive the chat request!
While it *is* just like a helpful store clerk asking if they can help, I’m not sure my website visitors are quite ready for it yet.
I consider myself pretty web-savvy, and I’ve come to grips, mostly, with the idea of how Social Media can bare your life to the world… and even though, in the back of my mind, I know stats are taken when I visit a site - I’m not sure how I’m going to react when the first ‘Real Time Web Help’ is offered to me as I browse a site…
Even if you have Google Analytics on your website already, add Woopra too!