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I wonder why github's US traffic numbers go down? http://siteanalytics.compete.com/github.com/ http://siteanalytics.compete.com/github.com/
by dennisgorelik 14y ago
I wonder why github's US traffic numbers go down?
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/github.com/ http://siteanalytics.compete.com/github.com/
- citricsquid 14y agobecause those analytics are (most likely) not accurate, github doesn't have the compete tracking installed.
- dennisgorelik 14y agoExact traffic numbers might be not accurate, but traffic trend in the course of full year at that traffic volume is generally pretty accurate.
- cobychapple 14y agoThose analytics bear very little resemblance to our actual traffic both in terms of volume and overall trend.
- dennisgorelik 14y agoYou are right, Quantcast shows different trend: http://www.quantcast.com/github.com http://www.quantcast.com/github.com
- ig1 14y agoCompete is often wildly off. Compare the different services that offer similar analytics and you'll see how often they disagree.
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- clobber 14y agoWhy do people still think compete, quantcast, alexa, etc are accurate when they don't have tracking pixels installed on the sites they're showing traffic for?
- citricsquid 14y agoThere was an interesting comment recently on this topic, someone explained that some of the larger tracking companies purchase traffic logs from American ISPs and although their traffic reports aren't necessarily accurate (because they don't have all the data -- as shown by the github employee below) it's not complete guess work and they can be considered representative for sites used by the average internet user.
- JonnieCache 14y agoThe rise of the official and unofficial non-browser clients have a hand in it I imagine. Or those numbers could just be bollocks.
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