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Probably because most of the data comes from comScore who, like Alexa, gets their data from a self-selected sample size. We're ever going to get truly accurate
by Dirlewanger 12y ago
Probably because most of the data comes from comScore who, like Alexa, gets their data from a self-selected sample size. We're ever going to get truly accurate results this way.
Of course, I'm sure if the NSA put its mind to it (not happening), they could get a fairly accurate readout of the most popular sites for the US...
- angersock 12y agoI wonder how you'd collect that...log every DNS lookup at the ISP level? Surely they already do this.
- evandena 12y agoI don't have an answer for you, but a simple DNS lookup at the ISP wouldn't get you the whole picture. Lot's of local/LAN DNS caching.
- pkhagah 12y agoProbably count tcp/http connection to sites at ISP? Of course it's not easy or accurate for us. Not NSA ;) Another option for conspiracy theorists is to just get data from apache logs etc., because, you know, NSA has access to everything.
- blumkvist 12y agoYou don't need the NSA to get that info. There are plenty of companies who aggregate data from ISPs.
- new299 12y agoReally? Does that data get made available in market reports?