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Chartbeat

Chartbeat

Real-time analytics and audience insights for digital newsrooms, publishers and content teams.

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Overview

Chartbeat is a content intelligence and real-time analytics platform built for media publishers, digital newsrooms, and editorial teams. It enables organizations to monitor reader engagement, track performance metrics, and optimize editorial decisions across web properties, mobile applications, and social channels.

The platform processes live audience data to display concurrent pageviews, unique visitors, scroll depth, and content recirculation. Editorial teams can evaluate performance through custom dashboards, perform automated headline and image testing, and compare engagement against competitive network benchmarks.

Key features

  • Real-Time Dashboard: Tracks pageviews, traffic sources, and reader engagement across all digital properties in real time.
  • Heads Up Display: Overlays real-time engagement data, click-through rates, and scroll depth directly onto active website pages.
  • Historical Reporting: Analyzes up to 13 months of historical trends in engaged time, referral traffic, and specific editorial topics.
  • Headline and Image Testing: Runs automated variant tests on front pages to optimize headline and visual engagement based on audience response.
  • Competitive Benchmarking: Compares site performance and audience metrics against peer publishers within the global Chartbeat network.
  • Conversion Tracking: Tracks actions such as user registrations, subscriptions, and donations to align editorial strategy with revenue goals.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Real-time metrics provide immediate visibility into reader engagement and breaking news performance.
  • On-page visual overlay makes performance data directly accessible to editors browsing the website.
  • Unified tracking covers both website properties and native mobile applications.

Cons

  • Custom pricing requires contacting the sales team directly for quotes.
  • Platform features are specifically tailored for media publishers rather than general e-commerce or SaaS products.

Best for

  • Publishers
  • Newsrooms
  • Editorial teams

Screenshots

  • Chartbeat screenshot 1