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Reinvigorate.net Reinvigorated

One of the true powerhouses of online statistics and visitor tracking of recent years, reinvigorate.net was recording footprints on websites back when statcounters were cool if they looked like a numeric slot machine, and urchin (now google analytics) was still out on its ass. But then something happened in early 2005, and reinvigorate.net disappeared with promises of upgrades and a triumphant return…

For an unknown number of lucky beta testers (including myself, as of this afternoon) that return is now! So let me show you what all the fuss is about…

Something Old

The thing that reinvigorate has always done exceptionally well - what really set it apart in my mind - is its capacity for viewing startlingly up to date statistics.

Actually, ‘up to date’ doesn’t quite convey the immediacy of this service, ‘up to second’ would be more accurate.

With reinvigorate activated, I can visit anywhere on my webpage and at the exact same time be viewing my footprints through the reinvigorate ‘Session’ report. No other service I have ever used even comes close to providing this level of intimacy in their statistics.

To put it another way; while every other service just send you postcards from time to time, using reinvigorate is like climbing inside your web server and watching it tick. For a keen stat-o-phile there’s just no substitute.

Something New

Fitting comfortable into the brave new world of Web two point oh, reinvigorate’s new user interface is more than just an aesthetic facelift.

A clever two-tiered tabbed navigation system gives users access to 28 cleanly designed and information-packed report cards for you to peruse - all sorted logically under the five main headings of Traffic, Visitor Detail, Session, Site & Path and Search & Referrer.

Something Borrowed

As I mentioned earlier, the previous version of reinvigorate was shut down in early 2005 - largely, I believe, due to its own unmanageable success. For some time before the plug was pulled on it, reinvigorate had experiences huge problems dealing with the enormous demands being made on it by its many ardent fans. Slow loading and plenty of downtime marked its exit from the online scene just as many more users were discovering it.

This time around however, reinvigorate is boasting a proud endorsement of media temple’s web hosting services and from a quick eyeball test, seems to be inserting on pages even faster than google’s urchin include. Here’s to hoping they can maintain this standard once the service goes live for all!

Something Blue

Um.. the logo?
Though I had to finish out this terrible wedding cliché I appropriated, I definitely can’t say that I’m blue at reinvigorate’s well-overdue return.

If early signs are anything to go by, it seems that this excellent webservice is soon going to be back and better than ever!

Update

Looks like reinvigorate already has its own wordpress plugin; Reinvigorate for Wordpress.

Posted at 8:53 pm in Miscellaneaous.