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A comment on Ask HN: How accurate are Alexa/Compete/Quantcast for your website(s)?.

Re:Ask HN: How accurate are Alexa/Compete/Quantcast for your... by aw3c2 on Thursday June 03, 2010 @11:53AM (#1401647)
Here are my small niche sites:

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Site #1 (classic gaming related)

April 2010 - Unique Visitors:

My server logs: 16000

Compete: 700

Quantcast: -

Alexa: -

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Site #2 (music related and random things)

April 2010 - Unique Visitors:

My server logs: 5000

Compete: 2326

Quantcast: -

Alexa: -

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Re:Ask HN: How accurate are Alexa/Compete/Quantcast for your... by skinnymuch on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @05:48PM (#1472977)
how do you find the uniques through server logs? I know software like webalizer and awstats overexxagerate quite a bit if left alone (count too many bots, extra uniques where they shouldn't be, etc).

Compete.com is US only traffic so it is pretty spot on for your second site. However it's weird that your first site with 500+ uniques/day avg. doesn't have a quantcast estimate.

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