Web analytics · Chartbeat, Inc.

Chartbeat

Real-time content-performance analytics built for newsrooms and publishers, not general-purpose site analytics.

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Chartbeat is a real-time analytics platform aimed specifically at digital newsrooms and publishers rather than e-commerce or SaaS marketing teams. Its core is a live dashboard of concurrent visitors, referrer sources, and scroll depth per article, paired with a 13-month historical dashboard for engaged-time trends. Optional add-on suites cover headline/image testing, reader-experience diagnostics, and competitive benchmarking against other publishers through Chartbeat Cohorts. It is delivered as a hosted, JavaScript-tag product with no self-hosted option and no open data-export tier comparable to GA4 or Matomo. Where GoSquared or Clicky serve general websites, Chartbeat's dashboards, alerting, and editorial workflows (e.g., a newsroom "Heads Up Display") are built around helping editors decide what to publish, promote, or update in real time.

At a glance

Vendor Chartbeat, Inc.
Pricing model Quote only
Free tier No
Deployment Cloud
Open source No
Best for Newsroom and publisher editorial teams making real-time decisions about what content to promote or update

Pricing

Four tiers (Essentials, Plus, Premium, Enterprise) scaled by website and app pageviews; no public dollar figures, sales-quote only.

Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted.

Features

  • Real-time concurrent-visitor and pageview dashboard
  • 13-month historical dashboard for engaged-time trends
  • Scroll-depth and top-performing-story tracking (Heads Up Display)
  • Headline and image A/B testing for content
  • Competitive benchmarking against other publishers via Chartbeat Cohorts
  • Real-time traffic spike/dip alerts
  • CSV reporting and video-content dashboard
  • Dedicated account management on all tiers

Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026

Alternatives

GoSquared Real-time web analytics with live visitor tracking, engagement scoring, and email reporting for small marketing teams. Google Analytics 4 Google's free, event-based web and app analytics platform with machine-learning-driven insights and cross-platform reporting. Similarweb Estimates traffic and engagement for any website using panel and clickstream data, not first-party site tracking.

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Terms to know

Engagement rate The share of sessions that meet a minimum bar for meaningful interaction, GA4's replacement for bounce rate. Session A grouped window of a user's activity on a site or app, bounded by an inactivity timeout or similar cutoff rule. A/B testing A controlled experiment that compares two variants to measure which one produces a better outcome. Dashboard A visual display of the metrics a team needs to monitor, usually updated on a schedule or in real time. Anomaly detection Identifying data points or patterns that deviate significantly from expected or normal behavior. Scroll depth How far down a page a visitor scrolls, tracked as a percentage or discrete thresholds to measure content exposure.