An alternative use for Woopra
Published on 4th August 2008 Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteWhile the once a day reporting cycle of Google Analytics is all very fine, the availability of real time data does have its advantages. WordPress.com's Stats plugin goes some way to serving the need, only for Woopra to trump it in every way apart from a possible overkill in the amount of information that it makes available. The software remains extremely useful despite being in the beta phase and occasionally crashing.
One of its uses is seeing if there are people visiting your website at a time when you might be thinking of making a change like upgrading WordPress. Timing such activities to avoid a clash is a win-win situation: a better experience from your visitors and more reliable updates for you. After all, it's effortless to make a poor impression and an unreliable site will do that faster than anything else, so it's paramount that your visitors do not get on the receiving end of updates, even if they are all for the better.