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Richard Catto from capetownnews has discovered Woopra and writes the following:

There are now innumerable ways to collect stats for any type of web site. Bloggers tend to be fanatical about checking their stats to see what’s happening and competing with themselves to continually raise the bar.

Most stats packages take time to deliver the information. Google Analytics, for instance, takes 24 - 48 hours to update your web site’s stats.

Bloggers want that information NOW, if possible, and now there is one stats package which stands out above the rest: WOOPRA.

Woopra gives Real Time Stats. As you watch the Java based console, so you see the visitors come and go. Woopra tells you how many you have viewing your site right now, who they are, where they came from and what country they are in. You can see what pages they open, how long they keep it open, and if you like, you can even initiate a real time chat with them.

If they comment on your blog, then their Woopra session will be tagged with the name they used. You can even choose to tag visitors yourself, to more easily keep track of who they are.

Woopra installs on your blog via a WordPress plugin (or javascript for other types of blogs). To view the stats you need to download the Woopra console which is written in Java, and thus requires you to install Java on your machine.

Once that is accomplished, you need to sign up for an account on Woopra’s site and add the sites you wish to track. Sites are manually approved within a few hours.

So far it seems to be an interesting new toy. If you’re a stats fanatic, I’d recommend you give it a try.

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