Realtime Content Insights Chrome Extension

The RCI Chrome Extension allows you to understand how your readers are interacting with your content, in realtime.
What is Realtime Content Insights Chrome Extension?
The 'Realtime Content Insights Chrome Extension' is a Google News Initiative tool to gain real-time insights into your content performance. This extension shows the number of active readers, article rank, top geographies and referrals. It allows bookmarking of articles for quick performance assessment. Measuring data from Google Analytics account, it maintains utmost data privacy with read-only access.

Extension stats

Users: 2,000+
Rating: 4.14 (7)
Version: 1.1.2 (Last updated: 2021-12-16)
Creation date: 2021-11-01
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • identity
  • declarativeContent
  • storage
  • tabs
  • webRequest
  • alarms
Host permissions:
  • *://*.google.com/
  • http://*/
  • https://*/
  • https://www.googleapis.com/
Size: 289.79K

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Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

The Google News Initiative, in partnership with Use All Five, is excited to introduce the Realtime Content Insights extension. It will allow you to quickly identify how many readers are interacting with your content as you browse your website, in realtime.

How to use:

• Install the extension • Make sure you are logged into the Google account on Chrome that is associated with the Google Analytics account you are seeking data from. • Click on the extension’s “Google sign-in” button and login to authorize access. • Your data will appear automatically, but you should always click on the extension and make sure the correct “Google Analytics View” is selected. • If your account doesn’t appear/isn’t the right one, go to your website’s Google Analytics account: Admin > Property settings, and make sure the “Default URL” field matches your main URL/primary domain.

Features:

• Number of realtime readers on the page/article that you’re currently viewing • Page/article rank compared to the rest of your content

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User reviews

It does not work since we switched to GA4 only, i.e., excluded GA3 from the page. Is there a way to make it work? BTW, it was an excellent tool for everyday use.
by Aldin Kulić, 2023-11-28

Doesnt work for some pages
by Jānis Ķengurs, 2023-07-18
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Realtime Content Insights Chrome Extension requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Realtime Content Insights Chrome Extension has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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