Comments on: Compete.com’s Margin of Error http://blog.normalkid.com/2008/03/15/competecoms-margin-of-error/ I'm Arnold Kim, I run websites. Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: paketresor http://blog.normalkid.com/2008/03/15/competecoms-margin-of-error/#comment-1486 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 06:36:19 +0000 http://normalkid.com/2008/03/15/competecoms-margin-of-error/#comment-1486 keep up the nice work on the site. I kinda like it! :) Could use some more frequent updates, but i’m quite sure you got better things to do like we all do. =p

]]> By: Gary Granneman http://blog.normalkid.com/2008/03/15/competecoms-margin-of-error/#comment-1485 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:51:36 +0000 http://normalkid.com/2008/03/15/competecoms-margin-of-error/#comment-1485 We monitor our visitors’ IP addresses, operating systems, city, state, country, time of visit, and more. We see visitors in real time. We know how many visitors we have. According to Compete.com our website had 179 visitors. We actually had 3,103 unique visitors, which are documented. Obviously, compete.com’s margin of error is as much as 94%. What is the point of Compete?

]]> By: Normalkid:Arnold Kim » Blog Archive » Engadget vs Gizmodo Stats http://blog.normalkid.com/2008/03/15/competecoms-margin-of-error/#comment-1484 Thu, 15 May 2008 23:28:14 +0000 http://normalkid.com/2008/03/15/competecoms-margin-of-error/#comment-1484 [...] Compete’s records show that they have roughly the same amount of traffic, but their methodology is also subject to error. [...]

]]> By: Hi5 in Alexa http://blog.normalkid.com/2008/03/15/competecoms-margin-of-error/#comment-1483 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:27:27 +0000 http://normalkid.com/2008/03/15/competecoms-margin-of-error/#comment-1483 While hi5 maintains its strong hold in Central America, it faces tough competition in Asia from many social networking sites. Hi5.com comes in first ten ranking in Alexa.com. You can see ranking of Fortune Park Hotels Ltd in http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/fortunehotels.in Alexa.

]]> By: Arnold Kim http://blog.normalkid.com/2008/03/15/competecoms-margin-of-error/#comment-1482 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:05:55 +0000 http://normalkid.com/2008/03/15/competecoms-margin-of-error/#comment-1482 actual traffic is measured based on javascript placed on the site itself. It’s the same method as Google Analytics. It’s probably based on unique IPs, not cookies.

It’s as accurate a measure there is.

arn

]]> By: Get Smart http://blog.normalkid.com/2008/03/15/competecoms-margin-of-error/#comment-1481 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:15:02 +0000 http://normalkid.com/2008/03/15/competecoms-margin-of-error/#comment-1481 this is the stupidest thing i have ever read. what is “actual” traffic. cookie counts from server logs? cookie counts notoriously undercount traffic. idiot.

]]> By: Arnold Kim http://blog.normalkid.com/2008/03/15/competecoms-margin-of-error/#comment-1480 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:49:10 +0000 http://normalkid.com/2008/03/15/competecoms-margin-of-error/#comment-1480 Alexa doesn’t report in “uniques per month” so it’s not directly comparable.

arn

]]> By: Outofscope http://blog.normalkid.com/2008/03/15/competecoms-margin-of-error/#comment-1479 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:40:08 +0000 http://normalkid.com/2008/03/15/competecoms-margin-of-error/#comment-1479 Did You try to compare these figures with Alexa’s estimations?
It seems to me that Alexa has more significant toolbar installation base.
My site is in Alexa’s top 100k for a certain period, but neither Compete nor Quantcast have got any data regarding it.

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