How important are real time analytics?
Hi
I am working on a very rudimentary analytics tool for a couple of projects.
I only capture page views, unique visitors (a hash), referrals, timeOnSite, agent info, load time for each page and every hour I aggregate the result and store them on a CDN. I also have some alerts that are triggered and sent immediately.
This leads to a cost effective and simple solution... but I am totally missing the real-time statistics, so far I am ok with this, I only review the results once or twice a day or when an alert is triggered.
But I was wondering if there is something important that I am missing without the real time information?
Why is the real time information useful for you?
How much do you spend reviewing the real time analytics?
Thank you.
Everyone's different, but in my case, I don't use real-time analytics, or even analytics at all on [smol.pub)(https://smol.pub). I realized that if I have traffic, I would see it through people being engaged on the site through writing posts.
Usually for people who run paid promotions, you verify that the systems work etc, the links, the promotions, you want to actively check new Champaigns and tweaks to see you didn't f something up and just burning money on nothing
With more passive traffic you don't care as much
This is a very good point to have in consideration, thank you!
I do like having real-time info however it's really just preference and being impatient lel.
I'd second what @Primer said tho I think you probably don't need a custom solution for this 🤔
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I am working on a couple projects that generate a subdomain or more per user, I've been inquired about analytics frequently and I wanted to offer something minimal out of the box, but I was wondering if RT analytics were considered minimal or useful at all... for more users than me.
Generally I don't like to go for a managed solution for a functionality that is spawns for each user of the services.
I might spend a week or two having this working but I was thinking of this as something that will be used not just by me.