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My guess would be on their measurement methodology. The about page reads: "We have a diverse sample of 2,000,000+ U.S. Internet users that have given us permiss
by alanstorm 17y ago
My guess would be on their measurement methodology. The about page reads: "We have a diverse sample of 2,000,000+ U.S. Internet users that have given us permission to analyze the web pages they visit and ask them questions via surveys." That translates as sketchy toolbar/shareware installs and checkboxes that are checked by default.
- iron_ball 17y agoAnd that means this stat likely does not reflect the usage habits of technically proficient users, because they are the least likely to have allowed those grayware installs.
- aaronbrethorst 17y agoWhich would imply SO's traffic is dramatically under-reported. In fact, August they had a blog post that indicates Compete's data is off by a factor of 15, and this was 7 months ago! http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/one-year-of-stack-overflow/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/one-year-of-stack-over...