What kind of analytics do news and media use?

Question

Analytics

Surely there are representatives of the mass media, online newspapers and other news resources on the Toaster. I want to know from you an insider, what, besides Google Analytics and Yandex.Metrica, do you use to analyze the audience?
The idea hangs in my head that much more can be learned from the traffic of such sites: to analyze the popularity and impact on the audience of individual topics, sections and authors; test headlines, audience engagement. Are there such specialized analytics services tailored for content projects, and have you used them?
I'm currently working on a similar service Related.Media , and I would like to know if there is somewhere to peep.

Answer 1

ChartBeat is designed for news sites.
Your service is good as described. Get ready for most loads, especially on the recommendation block.
Development teams on large projects will be very worried about the stability of the third-party service.

Answer 2

We have customized GA and Piwik for these requests. We also set up an internal system based on linking cookies in the user's browser. Although there are a sufficient number of solutions based on event tracking in the foreign market - for example:
https://keen.io/
https://t.onthe.io
https://www.gosquared.com/
www.stathat.com