I'm trying to figure out why people think real-time data is important. Data needs to be actionable, and I'm not sure real-time page view data is that.
What conclusions can be made from that dashboard, except "we have N visitors right now"? And what actions can you take from that data to increase the number of page views?
At the moment there isn't much value except for it looking nice. However, once I implement referrers properly, it's good to see where traffic is coming from. When it comes from a discussion you are still not too late to act.
Also, having an API call that returns the trending content of the site can be used on the site itself.
I like the stability of ActiveRecord. It was also to show that it's very easy to use the Ruby MongoDB driver just for some data. I have thought about changing it in the future to use only MongoDB, but not just yet.
[+] [-] jrydberg|15 years ago|reply
What conclusions can be made from that dashboard, except "we have N visitors right now"? And what actions can you take from that data to increase the number of page views?
[+] [-] jcxplorer|15 years ago|reply
Also, having an API call that returns the trending content of the site can be used on the site itself.
[+] [-] jkaljundi|15 years ago|reply
On the marketing & customer development side, it might help you participate in discussions regarding your site happening elsewhere.
[+] [-] jackbean|15 years ago|reply
[+] [-] jcxplorer|15 years ago|reply