Re:Ask HN: How accurate are Alexa/Compete/Quantcast for your...
by AmberShah on Thursday June 03, 2010 @12:27PM
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CodeAnthem.com has been up a few months, so only full month avail was April on Compete:
Google Analytics (unique visits): 77K
Compete: 20K
Quantcast: No Data
I really have no idea how to find comparable stats on Alexa (since it uses percentages) but you can check it to see.
Compete's referral data and search analytics were also way off. I might think this is due to the site being pretty new ... but I'd rather they said nothing (like Quantcast) than be way off.
Based on how wrong they are for my site, I would not put much stock in them for other people's...
Google Analytics (unique visits): 77K
Compete: 20K
Quantcast: No Data
I really have no idea how to find comparable stats on Alexa (since it uses percentages) but you can check it to see.
Compete's referral data and search analytics were also way off. I might think this is due to the site being pretty new ... but I'd rather they said nothing (like Quantcast) than be way off.
Based on how wrong they are for my site, I would not put much stock in them for other people's...