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Content Analytics — See what content your visitors are actually reading
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hey @noahkagan im a huge fan of your wordpress plugin(s) and been using them since early this year.
one quick question about load speed. as you know, page speed is important for SEO and can be of a concern for many WP websites, especially those with a bazillion plugins.
any insights into the load speed of your plugins, including this one? have you guys run any tests or diagnostics?
i love your plugin and definitely plan to continue to use it... but i now have so many running that im afraid it'll slow down my website.
@benhoffman_ We designed SumoMe from the beginning to load everything asynchronously. The goal behind that is to never ever impact load times of the host site and end user experience. Sometimes this means we load later than desired but it's a trade off worth making to ensure we're never blocking or delaying the original page from loading to the user.
All of our scripts are compressed and compacted. We concatenate ones together where we can while still maintaining some independence due to the various combinations of apps you could possibly have.
We deliver all static files via a global CDN so that load times are as minimal as possible based on geography. While some images could theoretically be compressed further, we try to achieve a balance between compression and aesthetics to make sure we aren't loading horribly ugly images due to too high of compression rates. Normally these are hand tweaked in PhotoShop to find an optimal result. You may find that some speed tests say we could yield more savings with more compression but there are said trade offs.
We currently have over 10 apps available in SumoMe with many more planned so it's understandable you could end up with all of them loading at once. We don't encourage that. Instead, it's recommended that you pick and choose the ones that best suite your needs and customers. For example you may choose to use Scroll Box to capture emails rather than List Builder if your customers find pop-ups to be too intrusive. We would rather see you choose one than to choose both.
None-the-less were still infant and working everyday to keep improving things. Feedback is always welcomed and if you have any technical suggestions feel free to reach out to me. We can't do everything, but we try to do our best to find the right balance between speed, usability, and features.
solid idea! @robflaherty has a really great GA/jQuery plugin that measures scroll depth too. http://scrolldepth.parsnip.io
Benefits? It fits in with a lot of your current reporting & instrumentation tools.
Love this! Reminds me a lot of Upworthy's "attention minutes" metric to measure how much time people spend reading (http://blog.upworthy.com/post/75...). Only Content Analytics also helps you know specifically where you're losing people.
Question: If you just see averages (avg read: 74%), then you might think you're losing people at 74% when you're really losing half at 60% and half at 88%. Do you have a way of tracking common drop off points?
@natedesmond Hey ND. You can see the % of drop offs along the way so you can rejigger your content to improve people reading more of it.
Example: 
(from today's AppSumo post)
(from today's AppSumo post)
@noahkagan - I love you. I run a digital marketing agency and this is going to be awesome. Installing on multiple sites now...
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