Articles written by Josh Schwartz
Chartbeat upgrades data security with Single Sign-On, SOC2 compliance
When our customers think about Chartbeat, they often picture real-time dashboards or optimization tools. But underneath it all, we also know that you rely on us for our ability to…
Does headline testing lose value over time? Our data behind its lasting impact on engagement
Headline experimentation has become an increasingly popular tool among our global partners. Some of the largest publishers in the world deem it essential to homepage optimization — we’ve seen websites…
Update from Chartbeat: Coronavirus and our customers
The global spread of novel coronavirus has caused a rapid and massive shift in readers’ interaction with online information. That behavioral shift is also amounting to an exceptional increase in…
What happens when Facebook goes down? People read the news
What would the world look like without Facebook? Chartbeat had a glimpse into that on Aug. 3, 2018, when Facebook went down for 45 minutes and traffic patterns across the…
Google Chrome Suggestions, in more detail than you could possibly want
Two weeks ago, we published an analysis showing the rise of Google Chrome Suggestions (GCS) — suggested links that appear in any new tab of Chrome on mobile devices. In response,…
Announcing Subscriber Engagement
If 2016 was the year of the platform, 2017 is the year of the subscriber. Readers are driving rapid growth in digital subscriptions, and many publishers are exploring new revenue…
2016 US Election Traffic: What to Expect and How to Maximize It
Tomorrow’s US elections will bring an unprecedented amount of web traffic to news sites. At Chartbeat, we’re predicting the total volume of readership we measure across the web (including non-news…
Yahoo Jumps to 6th Largest Web Referrer, Attributes Dark Social Traffic
As many major publishers and platforms have transitioned to using HTTPS, a great move for user privacy and security, a side effect has been a commensurate rise in dark social…
Fighting Dark Social: LinkedIn Comes into the Light
(Editor’s note: Beginning several days ago (the evening of Tuesday, 1/20, to be precise), you may have noticed a significant increase in the traffic on your site from LinkedIn: across…
The Data behind the Most-Read Article of 2015
In general, when we publish data, it’s always in anonymized, aggregated form — that sort of data lets us identify the cross-network trends relevant to all publishers. Now and then,…
A Look Back at 2015 & Media-Minded Resolutions for 2016
2015 was a big year for top-quality journalism. Just looking at the 20 most read stories across the Chartbeat network, it’s clear that a heartening mix of longform reports and…
Opening Up Our Measurement Process
If you’re reading this post, you’ve likely already read our recent announcement about gaining accreditation from the Media Ratings Council for measuring a number of metrics, including viewability and active…