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Re:Ask YC: How do sites like Compete, Alexa collect traffic ... by pearlS on Thursday May 14, 2009 @02:00PM (#609257)
They get a lot of their data by purchasing ISP traffic logs and parsing it. The browser data only serves as a much smaller "focus group" pool of users.
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