What happens in your first 48 hours
Vyera starts collecting data as soon as you add a competitor, but a fuller picture can take up to 48 hours.
Once you add your first competitors, Vyera begins collecting data straight away, but different parts of your workspace fill in at different speeds over the first 48 hours.
Note
If you are on the free plan, this article does not apply to you. The free plan is a single analysis run rather than ongoing monitoring, so there is no 48-hour build-up. See What is included on the free plan.
What starts immediately
Adding a competitor creates a starting source from their homepage, and that source runs within a few minutes. Once it finishes, the competitor appears in your workspace with its first snapshot of data.
What takes longer
Each source has its own run frequency, so a pricing source might refresh daily while a careers source refreshes weekly. Competitors with more pages tracked take longer to build a full picture than one tracked from a single page. Features that summarise activity across your competitors, such as the weekly briefing, need at least one full cycle of runs before there is enough to summarise, so they will look thin or empty until then.
What it does not do
A sparse dashboard in the first day or two does not mean something is broken, and it does not mean Vyera failed to add a competitor correctly. It also does not mean historical data is missing: tracking only begins from the point a source was added, so there is genuinely no earlier history to show yet, rather than history that has been lost.
If it still looks empty after 48 hours
Open the competitor's source and check its status and last run. A source that has run and shows no change simply means nothing has changed since it was added. A source that has not run at all, or shows as paused or failed, is worth a closer look.
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Related articles
- What Vyera does
Vyera tracks your competitors and turns what changes into a weekly briefing you can act on.
- Reading your dashboard
Your dashboard lists the competitors you track, shows recent changes, and flags each source's status at a glance.
- Why your data can look stale
Vyera refreshes competitor data on a schedule, so a short delay between a change and it appearing is expected.
- Backfill explained
Backfill means filling in historical data, and Vyera does not do this automatically for newly added sources.
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