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Re:Ask YC: How do sites like Compete, Alexa collect traffic ... by HouseTrip on Thursday May 14, 2009 @01:30PM (#609205)
A good way of understanding the popularity of a website is google trend. This article on Techcrunch shows an example of obvious bad data with Hitwise (which can be applied to Alexa and Compete as well): http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/20/new-hitwise-stats-show-...

At the end of the day, everyone who owns a blog or a website (myself included) has been able to experience first hand how flawed the data from such companies are by simply comparing them with their own google analytics data :-)

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Re:Ask YC: How do sites like Compete, Alexa collect traffic ... by mg1313 on Thursday May 14, 2009 @02:00PM (#609256)
Every web hosting company offers analytics software. Beside having Google Analytics you can use that too in your comparation.
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Re:Ask YC: How do sites like Compete, Alexa collect traffic ... by ecaron on Thursday May 14, 2009 @02:01PM (#609260)
But the point of these services is so that you can know how your competition is doing.
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