Performancing Introduces Beta of Performancing Metrics
New professional-grade measurement tool represents first comprehensive
statistics solution for commercial blogs and blog networks
CINCINNATI, March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Performancing (http://performancing.com), an organization dedicated to building the world's largest community of professional bloggers, today announced the beta release of its latest tool, Performancing Metrics. Performancing Metrics is a hosted analytics solution for professional bloggers who require detailed, accurate statistics for their revenue-generating blogs.
The tool is compatible with all major blogging software that allows access to HTML templates, including WordPress, Movable Type and Blogger. The solution's back-end server configuration easily handles the traffic of today's commercial blogs without slow-down. Features include a clean, efficient user interface that allows bloggers to view their analytics for multiple purposes, including advertising statistics, link optimization, participation monitoring and topic popularity. Performancing Metrics also enables measurement of multiple sites, enabling blog network managers to monitor and compare traffic and growth across all sites, individually or in aggregate.
Performancing Metrics provides an easy-to-use, yet powerful analytics solution that is superior to simple 'hit counter' software, but without the feature bloat that bloggers often find in high-end e-commerce-oriented packages.
The feature-rich beta of Performancing Metrics includes RSS feeds for simple monitoring, a comprehensive API for third party developers to use and build upon the Performancing Metrics platform, the ability to save chart images for use online or in reports and a private-versus-public option for allowing basic statistics to be publicly displayed. The full version, slated for early Q2 2006, will add many customization features, and will be guided by trends gathered from feedback via the Performancing.com community blog.
"Our goal was to build an industrial strength web analytics system that was specifically tailored for blogs -- an analytics solution that bloggers could rely upon for accuracy and power and, whilst being simple to use," said Nick Wilson, co-founder, Performancing.
"Even while Performancing Metrics is still in beta, it is fast becoming one of our favorite stats packages. It allows us to analyze how blogs are actually doing in real time, which is critical when we often have spikes that last only a few hours," commented Jeremy Wright, president of blog network b5media ( http://www.b5media.com/), and author of the book Blog Marketing. "Getting stats in real-time lets us react to incoming traffic in ways that our other stats packages simply can't."
Danae Shell, a small business owner who authors a blog titled Knickers (http://www.knickersblog.com), to promote her lingerie business added, "Wow, this tool is brilliant! I'm learning all kinds of new things about my blogs. I love the way Performancing Metrics breaks down information by post and comments rather than pages. It makes so much more real-world sense."
Live support for the Performancing Metrics beta is available at (http://performancing.com/forum/metrics/support) and via email, IM and telephone.
Pricing and Availability
Performancing Metrics is available now free of charge at http://performancing.com. Members of Performancing's blogger community can obtain the java script that activates the tool on the Performancing site. Registration is required for non-members. Performancing membership is free.
About Performancing
Performancing is an organization dedicated to building the world's largest community of professional bloggers and helping them to succeed. Performancing's mission is to create a comprehensive support system for professional bloggers, including, community, expert tips, guidance and advice as well as access to superior blogging tools and technologies in an open environment. Performancing is headquartered at 2838 Observatory Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. To register for a free Performancing membership, visit http://performancing.com/user/register. For more information, visit http://www.performancing.com, or call Nick Wilson directly at (+45) 3311 2250. SOURCE Performancing
