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

Re:Ask HN: How accurate are Alexa/Compete/Quantcast for your... by snewe on Thursday June 03, 2010 @01:14PM (#1401870)

Somewhat random fact: comment solutions like IntenseDebate and Disqus incorporate Quantcast into their js, so you are indirectly getting counted by such services if you use IntenseDebate, etc. I searched for an out-clause, but found none.

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Re:Ask HN: How accurate are Alexa/Compete/Quantcast for your... by michaelbuckbee on Thursday June 03, 2010 @02:03PM (#1401984)

Could you please expand upon the implications of this? It is unclear to me whether this is positive or negative aspect for the different entities involved: the commenting apps, Quantcast and the website they are embedded on.

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Re:Ask HN: How accurate are Alexa/Compete/Quantcast for your... by snewe on Thursday June 03, 2010 @05:04PM (#1402550)

I checked my quantcast stats a few weeks back after taking off their js months ago. I noticed that they still had a good picture of views/etc and wondered why. It appears that they were getting info from Intense Debate.

I originally took the Quantcast code off my site b/c it slowed things down and despite having fairly accurate counts, it had skewed demographics. I didn't want to encourage them, so I took off the script. However, my use of IntenseDebate meant that I was still using it.

I don't think IntenseDebate is doing anything wrong, but I would like an opt-out.

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