A webpage owner has seemingly unlimited choice in products that slice and dice information about those who visit her page. Real time? Personal? With a heat map? No problem. Facebook page managers, however, don’t have it as easy.
The Google Analytics of Facebook is called “Insights,” and for someone who is dealing with the typical Facebook fan page, it’s a sufficient meat-and-potatoes analysis tool. PageLever, a Y Combinator startup that launched on Wednesday, is a more elaborate version of Insights for brands that want to get a bit deeper in their analysis — a group of users that so far includes YouTube, Microsoft, Mint and Kayak.
PageLever shows impressions (any time a story loads in a browser, whether on your page or not) for any date range, not just month or week. It separates unique impressions from repeat impressions so that you can see your true reach, and it shows when and where fans “unliked” your page. You can also look at what type of content — photos, video, text or flash — your audience responds to best.
Most of the data, says co-founder Jeff Widman, comes from Insights’ API but is not necessarily visible within the Insights dashboard. Services like Buddy Media and Webtrends already accomplish similar feats with public information and the Insights API, but none to Widman’s knowledge take advantage of the data collected by obtaining permissions from the page administrator using Facebook Connect. This means that the tool can’t be used to measure a competitor’s traffic, but also that PageLever has access to more data.
More data theoretically gives page managers a leg up in Facebook’s somewhat frustrating version of the SEO game.
“Essentially it helps find more eyeballs for your content,” Widman says.
Check out the screenshots below and let us know if you’d find PageLever useful.
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Posted on Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:03:28 +0000 at http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/OsP2t8jsQZM/
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The Google Analytics of Facebook is called “Insights,” and for someone who is dealing with the typical Facebook fan page, it’s a sufficient meat-and-potatoes analysis tool. PageLever, a Y Combinator startup that launched on Wednesday, is a more elaborate version of Insights for brands that want to get a bit deeper in their analysis — a group of users that so far includes YouTube, Microsoft, Mint and Kayak.
PageLever shows impressions (any time a story loads in a browser, whether on your page or not) for any date range, not just month or week. It separates unique impressions from repeat impressions so that you can see your true reach, and it shows when and where fans “unliked” your page. You can also look at what type of content — photos, video, text or flash — your audience responds to best.
Most of the data, says co-founder Jeff Widman, comes from Insights’ API but is not necessarily visible within the Insights dashboard. Services like Buddy Media and Webtrends already accomplish similar feats with public information and the Insights API, but none to Widman’s knowledge take advantage of the data collected by obtaining permissions from the page administrator using Facebook Connect. This means that the tool can’t be used to measure a competitor’s traffic, but also that PageLever has access to more data.
More data theoretically gives page managers a leg up in Facebook’s somewhat frustrating version of the SEO game.
“Essentially it helps find more eyeballs for your content,” Widman says.
Check out the screenshots below and let us know if you’d find PageLever useful.
More About: analytics, data, facebook insights, Page leverFor more Startups coverage:Follow Mashable Startups on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Startups channelDownload our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
Posted on Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:03:28 +0000 at http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/OsP2t8jsQZM/
Comments: http://mashable.com/2011/08/03/pagelever/#comments