When comparing Geckoboard vs GoSquared, the Slant community recommends Geckoboard for most people. In the question“What are the best analytics dashboard tools?” Geckoboard is ranked 1st while GoSquared is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose Geckoboard is:
Extremely easy of use. Just download and get your reports.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Plug-and-play application
Extremely easy of use. Just download and get your reports.
Pro Summarizes important information from multiple services
Geckoboard is a hosted status board that collects business information from many online services and customers own data sources, summarises it to distill the key messages and displays it in a way that's easy to understand and interpret.
Pro Real-time updates
Businesses use Geckoboard to pull important information locked up in disparate services together into one place to give a real-time status on the health of all aspects of your business.
Pro Developer API
Pro Mobile apps
Pro Emails a summary of week's events
Allows being informed without having to spend too much time following analytics.
Pro Straightforward
GoSquared has 4 views - Now, Trends, E-commerce and People. "Now" is a dashboard that gives an overview of what's happening on the site in real time, "Trends" displays information like most visited content, referrals, engagement, etc over a period of time, "E-commerce" displays analytics about your online shop and "People" shows all site's users and tracks their behaviour in real time.
Cons
Con Sometimes needs to be refreshed
Dashboards are losing connection or not reflecting correctly. The quick refreshment fixes this.
Con Super expensive
Compared to what you can get from competitors such as Google Analytics, Geckoboard is insanely expensive
Con E-commerce analytics requires an expensive plan
To get e-commerce analytics, a subscription plan is required. The subscription starts at 18$/mo for 100,000 monthly datapoints.