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1. Open Analytics NYC 2013
Measuring how users
consume content on the
web
Josh Schwartz, Chartbeat
2. About Chartbeat
• Founded in 2009
• Focused on realtime analytics
• Used by 8/10 top US publishers
• Analyzes over 1B browsing sessions per day
• Handles over 200K requests per second at daytime
peak
A quick introduction
3. About me
• Background in machine learning and computer
vision
• Data Scientist at Chartbeat
• Currently focused on researching user engagement
on the web
A quick introduction
4. What on my site are visitors
actually reading?
Content consumption
5. Creating new metrics for user
engagement
• Research process
• Backend infrastructure
• As many insights as I can fit in
This talk
6. Event based metrics are
insufficient.
Clicks measure engagement
with links, not with content.
Content consumption