Chartbeat

chartbeat.com
Analytics
Weekend Project

Smarter insights. Sharper content.

How to Replace Chartbeat

Overview

Intuitive website analytics and optimization tools designed for media companies and newsrooms. Chartbeat provides real-time dashboard analytics, editorial insights, content optimization, and audience engagement tracking to help media organizations make data-driven content decisions at the speed of news.

Features

12 features across 4 categories

Alerts(1)

Real-time Alerts

Get notified of unusual spikes and dips so you can take action quickly, plus display your live audience data to the entire newsroom with a dashboard designed for the big screen

Also in: Planhat, Lusha, Totango

Analytics(7)

Competitive BenchmarkingPremium

Chartbeat Cohorts lets you compare your site's performance against other publishers in Chartbeat's global network

Conversions Tracking

Understand what drives your audience to register, subscribe, donate, make a payment, and more, enabling you to optimize for reader journeys

Engaged Minutes Metric

Track reader engagement depth beyond pageviews to understand how readers are interacting with content

Historical DashboardPremium

Measure 13 months of historical trends in engagement, traffic, topic-based data, and more to analyze historical performance

Real-Time Dashboard

Track every page on all your sites to understand what's driving engagement in every moment and where referrer traffic is coming from

Recirculation Analytics

Measure and understand what drives audience recirculation patterns across your content

Scroll Depth Measurement

Measure how far readers scroll through articles to understand content engagement

Also in: Hugging Face, Notion, Smartsheet

Content Optimization(2)

Headline and Image TestingAIPremium

Adapt what your readers see with a suite of optimization tools and smart recommendation widgets powered by reader-preference data

Heads Up Display

Spot top-performing stories, measure scroll depth, view articles' ranked performance, and see which content is over- or under-performing by placement

Reporting(2)

Advanced Reporting Tools

See, customize, schedule, and export your data exactly how you want it with easy-to-read performance visualizations

At-a-glance Insights

See concurrent page views, unique visitors, and recirculation–all in real time and instantly visualized in one beautiful dashboard

Also in: monday.com, Smartsheet, 1Password

Cost Calculator

Pricing data not available for Chartbeat. Check their website for current pricing.

Build vs Buy

Should you build a Chartbeat alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 12 features.

Buy Chartbeat

Better Value
Monthly costContact Sales
3-year totalVaries
Time to deployDays

Build Your Own

Development cost$12,000
Maintenance$180/mo
3-year total$18,480
Dev time~1 months

Buying Chartbeat saves ~$18,480 over 3 years vs building.

Estimates based on 12 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.