Playing w/ a new ranking system. Folks are saying that their data is more consistant then alexa and hitwise ..
take a peek here.
http://snapshot.compete.com/blog.outer-court.com/
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It's way, way off for unique visitors to one of the sites I manage.
Maybe it's just *consistently* wrong...? |
It seems to be complete guesswork right (and does it analyze blog.outer-court.comr or *outer-court.com* as it says)? But it worked with Alexa, maybe other companies are jumping on the same train ;)
If I want to give someone good numbers to base some assumptions on I'll give them a Google Analytics read-only invite for the blog. This way they get some real numbers, and they can also compare with other Analytics-measured sites. |
Compete claims to only count unique US visitors. Though even then it's been said to be wildly inaccurate (there was a discussion on digg yesterday). |
readwriteweb has a more detailed posting today :)-
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/compete_takes_on_alexa.php |
Here's a good point regarding rankings and traffic estimates from John Battelle – one that I've thought about many, many times before:
<< I've been at both Google and Yahoo in the past ten days, and privately, folks there both told me that they had the data and the wherewithal to blow Alexa out of the water. They have relationships with tens of millions of customers, and access to billions of clickstreams. Why not create, if only for the PR rub off, a solid estimator of web traffic? >>
From: http://battellemedia.com/archives/003038.php
So why don't they do this? Any ideas? |
Tony, thats so so correct. John B, clearly articualtes the space and clickstream data!!
If GYM actually collobrate on data , it would really helpfull for ALL!! |
