Ok so this is probably a legendarily stupid question but here goes LOL..why would someone need StatsGlitch? When would anyone need to know to that level of detail what was happening in their account. Now I\u0027m NOT saying that monitoring your account(s) aren\u0027t important. But to get an alert that yesterday you had 100 visitors and today by the same time you only have 88 visitors, is that really cause for high concern? I apologize in advance I\u0027m really trying to understand. Aside from say orgs running with MONSTER budgets where pennies could mean 100\u0027s of 1000\u0027s in $$ who would need that type of realtimeness? Again apologies, I\u0027m not trying to be rude I really want to understand. But especially based on the types of triggers available I just don\u0027t get it. Thank you so much in advance!!!

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Ok so this is probably a legendarily stupid question but here goes LOL..why would someone need StatsGlitch?  When would anyone need to know to that level of detail what was happening in their account.  Now I\u0027m NOT saying that monitoring your account(s) aren\u0027t important.  But to get an alert that yesterday you had 100 visitors and today by the same time you only have 88 visitors, is that really cause for high concern?  I apologize in advance I\u0027m really trying to understand.  Aside from say orgs running with MONSTER budgets where pennies could mean 100\u0027s of 1000\u0027s in $$ who would need that type of realtimeness?  Again apologies, I\u0027m not trying to be rude I really want to understand.  But especially based on the types of triggers available I just don\u0027t get it.  Thank you so much in advance!!!

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Hello,\u000a\u000aThank you, that\u0027s a really great question.\u000a\u000aYou\u0027re entirely right in a point that knowing that you\u0027ve got 88 visitors compared to 100 won\u0027t bring you any value.\u000a\u000aHowever, the real value is behind tracking your KPIs, usually defined as Google Analytics Goals and Events. Having \u003E100 signups every day and immediately jumping to 88 might be not a disaster, but a fact you should keep in mind. Or having \u003E100 sales every day and one day have an alert for a drop to 88, another day it drops to 50, and you can say that there\u0027s a problem. \u000a\u000aSimilarly, tracking plain old traffic metrics might not be so valuable, but if you would track your link\u002Dbuilding campaign or one day, your referral partner starts to send not 1000 of visitors, but 700, then it might be. If it\u0027s not a disaster, you should have this in mind.\u000a\u000aStatsGlitch also might not be relevant to you, if:\u000a\u000aA) You have just a hobby project where you don\u0027t care that much of traffic changes, you don\u0027t do any marketing campaigns, and you don\u0027t have \u0022conversion\u0022 (usually a sale or signup). In that case, the only thing I see that could be helpful to you is weekly overview reports. Having a non\u002Dintrusive once\u002Din\u002Da\u002Dweek report of your traffic might be valuable even for the most straightforward websites. And it\u0027s also free, with a StatsGlitch basic account. \u000aB) You\u0027re regularly checking your Google Analytics. You\u0027ve polished your stack and completely happy about it. Although StatsGlitch provides some functionality which GA lacks and might even never have (like Slack or Zapier integration), you might not also miss it. We might say that StatsGlitch will save your time (that you won\u0027t need to check GA daily), but you might be a GA wizard and that wouldn\u0027t be a problem to you at all.\u000a\u000aSo to conclude \u002D you might be right that StatsGlitch won\u0027t solve Your problems. But there\u0027s still a lot of value for users who have KPIs, sales, signups in their websites, which are not GA gurus, and any help to understand their metrics brings benefit to their businesses.

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