If you’re involved in a startup or just like to see how one is doing, it can be difficult to actually determine how things are playing out. Tractionbeat takes Google Analytics data & creates beautiful interactive charts that show how traffic is build over time.
George Hannes, the California, USA-based developer behind Tractionbeat, remarks that he built this service to answer a question he often has about how other startups attract traffic; the amount of time that they take to build up a “substantial stream of visitors” & how they convert.
Tactionbeat does this & quite a bit more. Anyone can submit the URL of a startup’s landing page & after consideration, Tractionbeat will add it to their Site. The site continuously updates Site data from the Google Analytics stream for the startups & shows a graph which defaults to number of sessions plotted over the last year.
The graphs are easily adapted to view data from other interesting perspectives, like substituting sessions for number of users or new users. You can also vary the time scale anywhere from a 5 year time span to graphing just today’s activity.
Startups can annotate the graphs using emojis to explain traffic spikes & dips. These can be things like that you’ve been featured on Reddit or Hacker News, that your servers have crashed, that you started a major ad campaign… Anything to give yourself & others a clue about what caused a major change in traction.
The Site itself is organized in 3 major sections: Newly Added, Top Traffic Today & Traffic Spikes. The 1st 2 sections are self explanatory & just show traffic charts according to each category. The Traffic Spikes section shows a list of major media promotion sites: Product Hunt, BetaList, Indie Hackers, Hacker News, Reddit… It shows unusually high generated session spikes for the startups being tracked.
– This is a startup profile based on publicly available material & not a review –
Image Credit: Tractionbeat
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