About this call

Give an overview summary of the people on your domain right now.  This call returns real-time data.

Format

     http://api.chartbeat.com/live/quickstats/?host=[host]&path=[path]&apikey=[apikey]

• host - Required.  The domain name to get summize data about.
• apikey - Required.  An api key generated here that gives access to this call.
• path - Optional.  Give a specific path.  If not given, data is from all paths. (Example, the path of http://chartbeat.com/signup/ is /signup/)
• jsonp - Optional.  Give the name of a function to wrap the return data in. Learn more here

Example

http://api.chartbeat.com/live/quickstats/?host=chartbeat.com&apikey=abc123

Example return:

{

    "direct": 129, 

    "domload": 7000.0, 

    "idle": 245, 

    "internal": 68, 

    "links": 30, 

    "new": 73, 

    "people": 278, 

    "read": 31, 

    "search": 7, 

    "social": 28,

    "visit": 60.0, 

    "visits": 278, 

    "write": 2, 

    "toppages": [

        {

            "path": "avc.com/a_vc/2010/09/outsourcing.html", 

            "visitors": 123

        }, 

        {

            "path": "avc.com/", 

            "visitors": 38

        }, 

        {

            "path": "avc.com/a_vc/", 

            "visitors": 19

        }, 

        {

            "path": "avc.com/a_vc/mba-mondays/", 

            "visitors": 12

        }, 

        {

            "path": "avc.com/a_vc/2010/08/what-a-ceo-does.html", 

            "visitors": 10

        }

    ] 

}

Return variables

Returns an object with summize variables.

• new - Number of users that are new.
• read - The number of people reading (defined as actively moving around the page).
• write - The number of people writing (defined as actively typing on the page).
• idle - The number of people idle (defined as no activity for a few minutes).
• domload - The average time it took for users to download and render the page.
• people/visits - The total number of people.
• direct  - people coming directly to site
• internal - people coming from internal links
• social - people coming from social links
• search - people coming from search 
• visit - mean visit length (s) 
• toppages -  inline data from the toppages call. Paths may not contain the domain name, see toppages call for details.