Woopra Lets You Stalk Your Users
For as long as there have been web sites, there have been web visitor statistics, and the people who obsessively watch them. To see who’s hitting your pages, there are offline tools like Webalizer, and online tools like StatCounter, but evidently there’s always room for more.
Woopra, in the words of its marketing staff, “is a revolutionary Web analytics tool designed from the ground up to break all the rules.”
I tried out the beta. On the surface, it’s a lot like the rest: you put a <script src="http://static.woopra.com/js/woopra.js"> snippet into your page, and you can view your stats, broken down into the usual categories, on Woopra.com.
The rule-breaking part comes when you download and install the cross-platform Woopra desktop application, and install a special plugin on your WordPress- or vBulletin-driven site (presumably more plugins are in the works).
Then you can not only watch your site’s visitors in real-time, but initiate chats with them! That brings me back to my BBS-admin days.
I can even see it being useful occasionally.
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