How to Build Your Own Chartbeat
Replace Chartbeat with a custom build. Smarter insights. Sharper content.
Build Difficulty: 5/5
Build a working replacement in a weekend with AI tools
Estimated Timeline
Based on 12 features at Weekend Project difficulty, expect about One weekend with AI-assisted development.
Recommended Tech Stack
Full-stack React framework with API routes and server components
PostgreSQL database, auth, and real-time subscriptions
Utility-first styling for rapid UI development
Key Features to Replicate
Top features across 4 categories. See all 12 features
Analytics(7 features)
Chartbeat Cohorts lets you compare your site's performance against other publishers in Chartbeat's global network
Understand what drives your audience to register, subscribe, donate, make a payment, and more, enabling you to optimize for reader journeys
Track reader engagement depth beyond pageviews to understand how readers are interacting with content
Measure 13 months of historical trends in engagement, traffic, topic-based data, and more to analyze historical performance
Track every page on all your sites to understand what's driving engagement in every moment and where referrer traffic is coming from
+2 more in this category
Content Optimization(2 features)
Adapt what your readers see with a suite of optimization tools and smart recommendation widgets powered by reader-preference data
Spot top-performing stories, measure scroll depth, view articles' ranked performance, and see which content is over- or under-performing by placement
Reporting(2 features)
See, customize, schedule, and export your data exactly how you want it with easy-to-read performance visualizations
See concurrent page views, unique visitors, and recirculation–all in real time and instantly visualized in one beautiful dashboard
Alerts(1 features)
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
Cost Calculator
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