Marketing
Chartbeat
American web analytics company.
What it is
Chartbeat shows what is happening on your site right now, built for newsrooms deciding what to promote.
Strengths and trade-offs
What works well
- Real-time attention data, not just pageviews
- Built around editorial decisions
- Big-screen dashboards for newsrooms
Where it falls short
- Priced for publishers
- Little value outside editorial contexts
- Historical analysis is not the focus
Who it is for
Publishers making live decisions about content placement.
Our verdict
Excellent for newsrooms and irrelevant for almost everyone else.
Closest alternatives we track
Same category, ordered by verified starting price.
What we checked
- Public APIOffers a documented API you can build against.Not checked
- Mobile appHas a native app for iOS or Android, not just a mobile website.Not checked
- Open source / self-hostableSource is open and the tool can be run on your own infrastructure.Not checked
- SSO (SAML)Supports SAML single sign-on on at least one plan.Not checked
“Not checked” means exactly that — we have not verified it, and we do not guess.