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Re:Ask YC: How do sites like Compete, Alexa collect traffic ... by ecaron on Thursday May 14, 2009 @01:05PM (#609152)
There's no way to them to get that interstitial data without having code analyzed/reporting per-page on the site (either backend Apache-log analysis or something like Google Analytics). Alexa did this for a while with their "embed your site's score", but that was too easily gamed so it was discontinued as a metric source.

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