{"id":197,"date":"2010-04-01T01:56:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T05:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocwordcamp.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2010-04-01T01:56:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T05:56:39","slug":"oops-did-i-scare-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2011\/oops-did-i-scare-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops! Did I Scare You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-200\" title=\"woopra\" src=\"https:\/\/2011.oc.wordcamp.org\/files\/2010\/04\/woopra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"253\" \/>You may have noticed a little grey box that says &#8220;Woopra&#8221; at the bottom right hand side of your browser when you visit this site and may not have thought anything of it. It&#8217;s a simple thing to overlook, but I can assure you that it&#8217;s something you should be paying a lot of attention to. Let me explain why.<\/p>\n<p>At <a title=\"Visit Pixel Jar, the brain child of Jeffrey Zinn and  Brandon Dove\" href=\"http:\/\/pixeljar.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pixel Jar<\/a>, we use <a title=\"Go check out Woopra, what are you waiting for? GO GO GO\" href=\"http:\/\/woopra.com\" target=\"_blank\">Woopra<\/a> to track stats for nearly every site we own\/manage these days. We used to use Google analytics, but we were frustrated by the delay in actionable information. So much of the web happens in real-time these days, why shouldn&#8217;t our ability to act on it be real-time as well. Woopra allows us to do just that. If you&#8217;re browsing this site and can&#8217;t find what you&#8217;re looking for, take a look at that little grey box. If it says &#8220;Chat with us&#8221;, you can click it and immediately put directly in contact with me, the guy with the answers. How sweet is that?<\/p>\n<p>Now, here&#8217;s the part that might freak you out. I say that, because I think I&#8217;ve scared some of you off. <strong>Sorry about that.<\/strong> We can see what pages you&#8217;re browsing&#8230;in real time. When you click any link, we know it immediately. Now, we&#8217;re not stalking you, but having this information at hand helps us to better deliver the kind of content you&#8217;re looking for. If I happen to be looking at the stats app and notice that someone is spending a lot of time on the site, has a history of coming to the site, they bounce around from page-to-page, that tells me that they might be looking for something that just isn&#8217;t there or is hard to find. This can also be the sign of a frustrated user.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried to reach out to a few of you to see if I could answer any of your questions, but I think I scared you.<\/p>\n<p>If you see a chat notification, <strong>don&#8217;t freak out<\/strong>. We&#8217;re still trying to figure out how best to harness it&#8217;s awesomeness. If you&#8217;re browsing around this site and get stuck and one of us is online, feel free to reach out and say hello. I bet we have the answer you&#8217;re looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Woopra has some strong ties to the WordPress community through John P. (<a title=\"Visit John P's Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/onemansblog.com\" target=\"_blank\">One Man&#8217;s Blog<\/a>), Lorelle VanFossen (<a title=\"Visit Lorelle's Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lorelle.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lorelle On WordPress<\/a>) and early adopter\/promoter Cali Lewis (<a title=\"Visit Cali Lewis' Video Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geekbrief.tv\/introducing-woopra-youre-gonna-want-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">GeekBrief.tv<\/a>). It was unveiled at WordCamp Dallas in 2008 and immediately went in to closed beta. Keep your eye on this technology folks, it&#8217;s just going to continue to get better.<\/p>\n<p>[poll id=&#8221;3&#8243;] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed a little grey box that says &#8220;Woopra&#8221; at the bottom right hand side of your browser when you visit this site and may not have thought anything of it. It&#8217;s a simple thing to overlook, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2011\/oops-did-i-scare-you\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6138191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-awesomeness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1oLzi-3b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6138191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}