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Compete.com shows troughs, peaks and valleys for sites I've worked for, and the timing appears to have no relation whatsoever to real events and our own data.
by code_duck 15y ago
Compete.com shows troughs, peaks and valleys for sites I've worked for, and the timing appears to have no relation whatsoever to real events and our own data.
What it is good for is comparing similar sites.
- dennisgorelik 15y agoSuch traffic misreports on Compete are typical for low-trafficked web sites. Can you show an example of a web site that is withing top 20000 web sites on Quantcast.com, but still has an order of magnitude inaccuracies on Compete?
- code_duck 15y agoHow would I know the real measured numbers for enough sites to give examples?
- dennisgorelik 15y agoIf you specify just one example that would be good enough. I can give you my example: http://www.quantcast.com/postjobfree.com/traffic http://www.quantcast.com/postjobfree.com/traffic 355,373 visits per month reported by Quantcast is 10% less than what Google Analytics reports (272,688 Visits per Month). http://siteanalytics.compete.com/postjobfree.com/ http://siteanalytics.compete.com/postjobfree.com/ 126,069 unique visits in March 2011 reported by Compete.com is ~2 times lower than Google Analytics shows for US traffic in March 2011 (252,621 Visits). While Compete.com reports numbers that are two times lower, it shows trends correctly (overall PostJobFree.com growth; drop of PostJobFree.com traffic in December).