Statistical Simplicity

Posted on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 under Apps, Statistics

Statistics should be used to improve your product. They provide insight into how it’s performing and intuitive feedback on what your users love and hate. It’s not always easy to plan for every iteration when you’re developing the product. How the user interface functions, where are your users getting lost, will the user’s actually use this as I intend them to?

It’s very easy to see how invaluable statistics can be. Yet some products can cloud your decisions with too much metrics in a clutter fashion. Say hello to Gaug.es

Providing the metrics you really need

Gaug.es doesn’t focus on providing you with all of the trimmings. It does the metrics you really need in a beautiful and simple fashion. Everything you need to make a decision about changing functionality of your product is there in an enticing UI.

I’ve used Google Analytics previous to Gaug.es and the difference dramatic. It’s no longer a chore to dig through masses of statistical information. Everything you need is presented in a beautiful fashion and in as few clicks as possible.

Making launching fun again

When you launch any new product, it’s fun to sit back and watch the user’s start to stumble upon your site. In Gaug.es you get live results all of the time. It also contains a stunning live map view where you can watch pin drops on a map of the world as user’s hit your application or website.

The support that counts

I’ve ran into some issues when adding Gaug.es to some sites. They we’re actually issues on my part but the support is fast and effective. They’re users of the Intercom CRM. Within hours of posting a quick question, an answer is sitting there waiting for me in my inbox. Perfection.

Overview

All things reviewed, Gaug.es is a web application that provides us with stunning real time actionable analytics for our web applications in a really fun way. It’s also exceptionally cheap at only $6 per month for the start package.

You can also sign up to try the service out for week, go for it!