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Re:Techcrunch visitors halve in 12 months by pitdesi on Saturday April 02, 2011 @06:05PM (#2401102)
I like Google Trends much better than compete and alexa... to borrow a term - they have more bars in more places

http://trends.google.com

Only good for larger sites, as it doesn't cover smaller ones

Here is TC http://trends.google.com/websites?q=techcrunch.com&geo=a...

Here is HN http://trends.google.com/websites?q=news.ycombinator.com&...

PG - how accurate is it? Suggests ~20k daily uniques to ~50k now

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Re:Techcrunch visitors halve in 12 months by pg on Saturday April 02, 2011 @06:16PM (#2401123)
Here are our actual numbers:

http://www.ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic-2apr11.png

Pageviews are thrown off somewhat by crawlers, but unique ips shouldn't be.

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Re:Techcrunch visitors halve in 12 months by drpancake on Saturday April 02, 2011 @07:42PM (#2401294)
Looks a bit like a seismograph readout. Are the troughs caused by weekends?
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Re:Techcrunch visitors halve in 12 months by pg on Saturday April 02, 2011 @07:53PM (#2401310)
Yes; most sites' traffic looks like this.
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