Information Density: Chartbeat – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

[H1] Smarter insights. Sharper content.
Intuitive website analytics and optimization tools designed for media.
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Trusted by newsrooms and content teams around the world.
OPTIMIZE CONTENT
Get reliable editorial insights at the speed of news.
Real-Time Dashboard. Track every page on all your sites to understand what’s driving engagement in every moment and where referrer traffic is coming from.
At-a-glance insights. See concurrent page views, unique visitors, and recirculation–all in real time and instantly visualized in one beautiful dashboard.
Heads Up Display. Spot top-performing stories, measure scroll depth, view articles’ ranked performance, and see which content is over- or under-performing by placement.
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ENHANCE STRATEGIES
Fuel your content strategy with powerful analytics.
Historical Dashboard. Measure 13 months of historical trends in engagement, traffic, topic-based data, and more. It’s simple to analyze historical performance, empowering you to repeat past successes.
Advanced reporting tools and intuitive reports. See, customize, schedule, and export your data exactly how you want it. And, get easy-to-read performance visualizations sent right to your inbox.
Competitive benchmarking. Chartbeat Cohorts lets you compare your site’s performance against other publishers in Chartbeat’s global network.
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GROW LOYAL AUDIENCES
Know what drives audience engagement and recirculation.
Headline and image testing. Adapt what your readers see with a suite of optimization tools and smart recommendation widgets powered by reader-preference data.
Conversions. Understand what drives your audience to register, subscribe, donate, make a payment, and more, enabling you to optimize for reader journeys.
Real-time alerts. Get notified of unusual spikes and dips so you can take action quickly. Plus, display your live audience data to the entire newsroom with a dashboard designed for the big screen.
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Being able to extract live data has been transformational. We are able to make live content decisions backed up by research from platforms which is relevant at the time of publication. The app makes it possible for me to stay in touch with performance when I am not working.
Verified User
Manager
Chartbeat allows us [to] know extremely quickly what content is most important to our readers, and thereby allows us a strategic advantage on other platforms.
John Byrne
CEO, Raw Story Media
Chartbeat is used across our company as a key analytical tool to monitor audience for our online news platforms. We use it at a national, regional and local level for in excess of 50 news media sites.
Verified User
It’s not just the impact of the tools themselves that are helpful for real-time decision-making, it’s how easy it is to access and use them. Everyone in our newsroom uses Chartbeat.
Flavio Moreira
SEO Editor at UOL
Since Chartbeat was made available it is used as a constant tool by our senior editorial team to judge what coverage is attracting audience and this influences further decisions over immediate editorial and strategic planning.
Verified User
[Engaged Minutes] is much more valuable to us than pageviews. It gives us a much deeper understanding of how our readers are interacting with our content.
Gabe Isman
Director of Technology, The Marshall Project
Chartbeat provides the fastest and cleanest signals from the audience of any analytics product available.
Verified User
Executive
Using this software has helped us make editorial decisions that have led to substantial gains in traffic and users.
Verified User
Product Management
It’s great for a newsroom, an editorial team, as well as marketing and other editorial brand needs.
Jerry Portwood
Editorial Director, Rolling Stone
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[H1] Content Intelligence for Publishers
Chartbeat is the content intelligence solution that empowers news publishers and media organizations to build loyal audiences with real-time and historical editorial analytics across websites, mobile apps, and social media. Understand what’s truly driving reader engagement and make data-driven decisions to improve content optimization and increase loyalty.
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[H2] The Real-Time Media Analytics Platform for Building Loyal Audiences
CONTENT INTELLIGENCE
[H3] Chartbeat Essentials
Get an instant read on your traffic and reader engagement with media-focused website analytics.
With publisher essentials like the Real-Time Dashboard, reporting to track 13 months of historical audience behavior, and Chartbeat Big Board that displays key analytics on the big screens, Chartbeat Essentials brings data-informed decision making and content strategy to your newsroom.
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PERFORMANCE SUITE
[H3] Testing and Optimization
Maximize each story’s readership by optimizing page elements like headlines and images. Chartbeat is the best A/B testing platform for media websites using reader data to drive content decisions.
Leverage tools like Headline and Image Testing along with AI-Generated Headline Suggestions to optimize for reader engagement after the click, while the Heads Up Display provides real-time performance insights and scroll depth tracking directly on your pages.
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PERFORMANCE SUITE
[H3] Analytics and Reporting
Access historical dashboard insights to assess content performance and KPIs over the long term, including Total Engaged Minutes and Page performance metrics.
Build custom reports and visualizations via Data Lab or use Advanced Queries to export CSVs based on Chartbeat metrics.
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PERFORMANCE SUITE
[H3] Reader Experience
Improve reader retention and audience engagement with smart, personalized content recommendations. The Recommendations Engine drives recirculation by suggesting content based on audience behavior.
The Conversion Dashboard helps measure monetization and track conversions like subscriptions and registrations using editorial-first content attribution models.
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PERFORMANCE SUITE
[H3] Benchmarking
Know how you’re performing compared to your peers and dig into editorial trends based on real, comprehensive data sets.
Use Chartbeat Cohorts, the trusted competitor benchmarking tool, to stay ahead by comparing your site’s traffic and engagement against peers in Chartbeat’s unmatched global network. Gain smarter content strategies powered by social video analytics through Tubular Viewpoint.
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[H2] Why Chartbeat?
Chartbeat provides the real-time media analytics platform trusted by thousands of global publishers to offer the fastest, cleanest signals of audience behavior.
We empower news publishers to go beyond simple clicks and views, helping you focus on deep reader engagement to build lasting loyal audiences.
Being able to extract live data has been transformational. We are able to make live content decisions backed up by research from platforms which is relevant at the time of publication. The app makes it possible for me to stay in touch with performance when I am not working.
Verified User
Manager
Chartbeat allows us [to] know extremely quickly what content is most important to our readers, and thereby allows us a strategic advantage on other platforms.
John Byrne
CEO, Raw Story Media
Chartbeat is used across our company as a key analytical tool to monitor audience for our online news platforms. We use it at a national, regional and local level for in excess of 50 news media sites.
Verified User
It’s not just the impact of the tools themselves that are helpful for real-time decision-making, it’s how easy it is to access and use them. Everyone in our newsroom uses Chartbeat.
Flavio Moreira
SEO Editor at UOL
Since Chartbeat was made available it is used as a constant tool by our senior editorial team to judge what coverage is attracting audience and this influences further decisions over immediate editorial and strategic planning.
Verified User
[Engaged Minutes] is much more valuable to us than pageviews. It gives us a much deeper understanding of how our readers are interacting with our content.
Gabe Isman
Director of Technology, The Marshall Project
Chartbeat provides the fastest and cleanest signals from the audience of any analytics product available.
Verified User
Executive
Using this software has helped us make editorial decisions that have led to substantial gains in traffic and users.
Verified User
Product Management
It’s great for a newsroom, an editorial team, as well as marketing and other editorial brand needs.
Jerry Portwood
Editorial Director, Rolling Stone
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[H1] Pricing and Plans
Chartbeat’s content analytics solutions help you monitor content performance, discover insights, and benchmark against competitors. Chartbeat pricing scales with you: it’s based on your website and native app pageviews. Speak with our team to find the right plan for your team.
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[H2] Chartbeat Flex Plans
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Essentials
The tools you need for a data-informed content strategy
Real-time content performance tracking for website and native apps, including multi-site views and Big Board monitor displayHistorical content performance up to 13 months, including on- and offsite social referrer and video metricsOn-page digital overlay with click-through data and scroll depthIn-depth reporting exported via CSV Real-time video dashboardDedicated Account ManagerUnlimited Seats
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Boost your content intelligence

Get everything in Essentials, plus:Choice of One Performance Suite:● Reader Experience● Testing● Benchmarking● Analytics Pro
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Even more ways to refine & optimize your reader experience
Get everything in Essentials, plus: Choice of Three Performance Suites: ● Reader Experience● Testing● Benchmarking● Analytics Pro
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The complete set of Chartbeat tools
Get everything in Essentials, plus:All Performance Suites Included:● Reader Experience● Testing● Benchmarking● Analytics ProSingle Sign-on
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Performance Suites
Level up your content strategy with Performance Suites, designed to help your team achieve specific goals.
Reader Experience
Reader Experience links content performance to financial outcomes. Chartbeat’s Recommendations suggests content to your readers based on your audience’s behavior. Measure the financial impact of individual articles with detailed Conversions data. This powerful set of tools is designed for product and monetization teams to directly impact the bottom line.
Testing
Drive higher reader engagement and click-throughs with reader-tested content on your homepages with Headline and Image Testing. Save time with AI-suggested headline variants and an intuitive workflow right on the homepage. Editorial teams can use the Testing suite to optimize article performance in real-time.
Benchmarking
Know how you’re performing compared to your peers. Compare your onsite performance to other publishers with Cohorts, and see how your social video strategy measures up with Tubular Viewpoint. Dig into editorial trends based on real, comprehensive data sets to know for sure what’s working and what’s not.
Analytics Pro
Analytics Pro delivers the full power of Chartbeat’s real-time data, enabling deeper analysis and seamless integration into your existing data ecosystem using Datastream. It also includes Data Lab, a BI-level tool for building custom dashboards and visualizations inside the Chartbeat app. Analytics Pro is perfect for advanced data analysts and data scientists who want to take their Chartbeat analysis to the next level.
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[H1] Content Strategy Essentials
[H3] Chartbeat has the essential content strategy tools that help you increase audience engagement and loyalty.
Chartbeat’s core suite of editorial analytics tools, available with Chartbeat Essentials, has everything your team needs to jumpstart a data-informed content strategy and see the results, in real time and over time.
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REAL-TIME DASHBOARD
[H3] Find your best readers.
Understand how your audience is connecting with your content in the moment – across platforms, channels, and devices – so you can act to optimize when trends happen with real-time analytics.
Filter data by sections, authors, location, traffic source and referrer, device type, and more.
Slice all data by visitor frequency, subscriber status, and native app traffic.
Integrates with Apple News and Google AMP.
HISTORICAL
[H3] Evaluate performance over time.
Intuitively assess content performance metrics, KPIs, and valuable trends over the long term with this editorial dashboard.
Filter by custom date range, section, author, team, referrer, article length, and AI-generated topics and categories.
Compare Total Engaged Minutes, Pageviews, Unique Pageviews, and Average Engaged Time for site and articles.
Quickly understand Search performance with integrated Google Search Console data.
See Facebook posts linking to your content that are gaining traction at the site and story-level.
BIG BOARD
[H3] Keep your newsroom aligned in real time.
Chartbeat’s Big Board makes audience data impossible to miss, giving everyone in the newsroom a clear, high-level view of performance.
Stay on top of what matters most with large-format displays that spotlight your audience activity in real time.
Customize views to fit your team.
Foster a data-driven culture with a tool trusted and recognized in leading newsrooms worldwide.
MULTI-SITE VIEWS
[H3] Group your sites together in one dashboard.
Create roll-ups of multiple sites in any configuration to monitor their performance all at once.
Apply Multi-Site Views to Chartbeat’s Real-Time Dashboard, Big Board, mobile app, and Historical Dashboard.
Establish and track cross-site or vertical benchmarks.
Track syndicated article performance across multiple sites by grouping articles by title or content.
Native App integration
[H3] Unlock insights into your app audience.
With Chartbeat’s Native App Integration, you can bring your app traffic into the Real-Time and Historical Dashboard to understand and increase audience engagement with your most loyal readers.
Optimize for loyalty by comparing engagement rate across native app and web audiences.
Fine-tune your app audience strategy with instant insights into the results of push alerts, and find what content resonates most.
Act with confidence using traffic breakdowns across iOS and Android to guide content and notification decisions.
Chartbeat app
[H3] Stay on top of your real-time data anywhere you go.
Understand the pulse of your story across the web with the app version of our flagship product.
Bring Chartbeat with you and track performance on the go.
Easily stay up to date on traffic and engagement trends.
The Chartbeat app is available for iOS and Android.
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[H1] Reader Experience
[H3] Conversion tracking and reader retention tools that get results.
Chartbeat’s Reader Experience suite empowers you to boost reader engagement and align teams around a data-driven content strategy. Smart recommendations help keep readers engaged on your site, and conversion tracking measures your monetization strategy.
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CONVERSION
[H3] Gain insight into user behavior and track the reader events most important to you.
Chartbeat Conversion helps publishers design smarter paywall strategies and drive reader actions.
Track conversion events like subscriptions, registrations, newsletter sign-ups, donations, downloads, and more.
Choose from multiple attribution models to understand your readers’ journeys and design effective stopwall strategies.
Align editorial, product, and business teams in one place to develop a cohesive and data-driven approach to conversion optimization.
RECOMMENDATIONS
[H3] Drive reader recirculation with automated and personalized content recommendations.
Suggest engaging content to your readers and improve reader retention.
Surface content in your site using a customizable API, or manually curate recommendations and links via Google Chrome Extension.
Personalize recommendations based on reader device type, referrer, region, trending content, and related content.
Understand how recommended content is impacting key business metrics with an Impact Report.
Track your content performance over time with these Essential historical analytics tools.
ADVANCED QUERIES
[H3] An in-depth look at your publisher analytics
Advanced Queries offers configurable  reports so you can share detailed performance data.
Get all the metrics and filters from Chartbeat’s tools, plus historical API access.
Share reports instantly or get recurring reports via email.
Download CSV results for use in other applications.
Email Reports
[H3] Insights and analysis straight to your inbox.
Start each day with relevant site, section, and author data reports.
Automated insights help you identify unique and noteworthy patterns and trends in your audience data
Preview individual reports, manage subscriptions, and easily share reports all via email.
Dig further into your data in the Historical Dashboard featuring comprehensive historical data and content performance KPIs.
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[H1] Testing and Optimization
[H3] Chartbeat is the best A/B testing platform for media websites.
Drive higher reader engagement with experimentation and content optimization tools within Chartbeat’s Testing suite. Using these tools, editorial teams can run reader-tested headlines and images on their homepages, and use reader data to drive content decisions.
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HEADLINE TESTING
[H3] Bring engaged readers to each story with Headline Testing.
Optimize for reader engagement after the first click, and maximize each story’s readership with a headline proven to engage readers.
Run live tests to optimize headlines with a dynamic algorithm that tracks and serves the best-performing headline during the test.
Track headlines even as an article’s slot position moves around the page.
Easily view conclusive results from testing, and export in CSV format for further analysis.
AI-GENERATED HEADLINE SUGGESTIONS
[H3] Spend less time writing headlines while optimizing for your audience.
Generate more high-quality headlines and content ideas in less time and boost engagement and click-throughs. Al suggestions are based on your past successful headlines, in the right tone for the headline’s Section.
Tailor headline suggestions for the homepage, search, and social, plus the Sections headlines appear in.
Al suggestions are based on your past successful headlines, in the right tone for the headline’s Section, to ensure the best quality.
Track how AI-generated suggestions are performing over time and compare their performance to human-generated content.
IMAGE TESTING
[H3] Find the picture worth 1,000 words.
Optimize images for your website’s homepage and understand what captures readers’ attention — all in a matter of minutes.
Quickly upload and run A/B tests for up to ten images on your homepage.
Track who’s truly engaging with your content post-click.
Automatically run the winning variant — vital in fast news cycles.
Test and optimize your content in real time with the following tools included in Chartbeat Essentials:
HEADS UP DISPLAY
[H3] Adapt and improve what your readers see with scroll depth analytics.
Know which homepage articles in which places are your top performers, how stories are trending up or down in traffic, and how far visitors are scrolling down the page.
Heads Up Display lets you see how content is performing based on its placement on the page.
Visually compare clickthrough rate to post-click engagement for every link on a page.
Filter by mobile, tablet, or desktop traffic.
Use up-to-the-minute scroll depth tracking to understand where readers are dropping off the page, and optimize links, images, layouts, and ads accordingly.
SPIKE AND DROP ALERTS
[H3] Get notified about traffic spikes and dips early.
Know when a change in your traffic is a digital news trend or specific to your site. Alerts tell you when content is getting more – or less – traffic than usual.
Never miss an opportunity to optimize content before it goes viral.
Stay ahead of site issues and platform updates with Drop Alerts that track when traffic sources are lower than usual.
Get alerted via Slack, email, or text message to know exactly when traffic is accelerating, or when a traffic source dips.
REAL-TIME API
[H3] Make new experiences for your readers.
Chartbeat’s real-time APIs make it easy to create custom experiences and pull data into your own data.
Create recommendation engines or most-popular modules on your site.
Keep readers engaged on your site by automatically serving them content others are already loving.
Pull data automatically via API to add our unique and comprehensive reader analytics to your internal tools.
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