Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:24:03 +0200
From: Selena Blackmore 
Organization: ingenieurbuero liebhart
To: lwn 
Subject: Re: Enquiry about =?iso-8859-1?Q?webfeedback=A9?= information


See your website in a new light with the dawn of webfeedback(c)


In February this year, IngenieurbÅro Liebhart Interactive Solutions
(IBL), an innovative Swiss Internet start-up company launched under
their trade name, Cyberware-neotek, their debut web decision support
system - webfeedback(c). 

Daniel Liebhart, founder and proprietor of IBL, estimates that 5
working years were spent creating and developing this new software
product.

IBL have recognised the problem that webmasters and company managers
often talk in contrasting languages.

Fully platform independent, webfeedback(c) has been created to enable
the webmaster and the manager to finally understand each
other. webfeedback(c) allows webmaster and manager alike to obtain a
clear 3D overview of the whole website, that both can use as a basis
for making the website a commercial success. 

webfeedback(c) combines an analysis of the website link structure
(structure analysis) and visitor traffic information (log file
analysis) and presents the results in a form that can be taken in at a
single glance. In other words, you can obtain a bird's eye view of
your website and simultaneously follow the progress of your website
directly on the screen without having to fight through mountains of
statistics. 

Okay, but how does it work?

You simply enter the www-address and the desired link depth, click on
the run button and, hey presto, the entire website structure is
displayed as a 3D tree graphic on your screen.

webfeedback(c) scans every HTML document and follows it to the chosen
depth and notes down the size, title and URL. The individual webpages
are represented as nodes and the links as branches.

webfeedback's(c) other main component is the analysis tool, which
allows you to analyse log files quickly and efficiently. It also shows
you the number of visitors and how they navigate around the
webpages. This information, which is particularly useful for banner
advertisers, is often not provided by other web analysing tools.

How does this particular software differ from other leading web
decision support systems?

Unlike other web decision support systems on the market,
webfeedback(c) combines structure and log file analysis to provide you
with a complete graphical overview of your site. 

In addition, webfeedback(c) shows you the strengths and weaknesses of
your website by visualising the statistical analysis of the routes, or
navigation paths, taken by a visitor to the website, enabling you to
view your site from the user's point of view.

The statistics provided also tabulate the number of visits to your
site and the time spent viewing each individual page, with all results
exportable in XML format.

The major new webfeedback(c) update has additional features such as
visualisation of broken links, which are now highlighted in red for
easy identification, as well as an improved printing facility and a
fully revised user manual.

All these improvements make it even easier for you to assess and
control the functionality of your entire website.

Furthermore, even without access to the logfiles, webfeedback(c)
allows you to analyse the websites of your competition.

webfeedback(c) is only available over the Internet, which makes IBL AG
the first computer company in Switzerland to distribute a product
exclusively on the Internet.

Despite the innovative nature of the product, webfeedback(c) has been
thrown into an extremely competitive and fast moving market, where it
is very hard for a product to stand out from the crowd. With the
average full version price of $298 and in the context of a multitude
of other web analysis tools, webfeedback(c) has a tough road ahead.

It will take time and, in particular, effective promotion for
webfeedback(c) to truly make a name for itself in the Internet
software market. Nevertheless, webfeedback's(c) user friendliness and
its capacity to unite webmasters and managers by unwrapping and
providing a clear, yet detailed overview of even the most extensive
websites, promises to set this software product that little bit apart
from the rest. 

webfeedback(c) really does what our slogan says and allows you to see
your website in a new light.

To find out more, visit our homepage: www.cyberware-neotek.com, where
you can also download the latest full version of webfeedback(c) and
try the software out for yourself for a free 30 day trial period.