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How close are Alexa traffic estimates to the actual traffic volumes? I've heard from numerous people that Alexa is almost always wrong and wrong by several orde
by nickb 18y ago
How close are Alexa traffic estimates to the actual traffic volumes? I've heard from numerous people that Alexa is almost always wrong and wrong by several orders of magnitude. It could be better for big sites, not sure. Just wondering what you guys see..
- jamesjyu 18y agoI've always found quantcast to be much more accurate, although their number for justin.tv looks low: http://www.quantcast.com/justin.tv http://www.quantcast.com/justin.tv
- emmett 18y agoAlexa's numbers are crap. Total crap. They only reflect your traffic in the loosest way. There was a period of time where our traffic doubled and the alexa actually declined. It eventually catches up though....think of a random distribution around the true value. Just so you don't get the idea I'm picking on Alexa, estimating this stuff is hard (or the people doing it are incompetent, but that seems unlikely with so many entrants). Quantcast and Compete.com are even worse, and ComScore is expensive but no better than Alexa.