Siliconbeat “beats” webanalytics industry
August 10, 2006
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Today Matt Marshall at Siliconbeat …
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August 11, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Excellent insightful objective comparison. Now, would you have any tips on how to explain these technically nuanced differences to those non-techies, as often vendors and executives alike would rely on Alexa ranking, when in fact, those numbers are only valid as a comparative trend to other websites, and not very valid for websites not in the top 150,000 trafficked?
August 12, 2006 at 2:53 pm
[…] Stagnating, doubling — tomato, tomahto, right? To his credit, Marshall goes out of his way to note that while Hitwise is a “respected” traffic analysis firm, numbers are all over the map — and he links to the other Marshall’s critique of the field. The simple fact is that Hitwise, Comscore, Nielsen and Alexa all use different methodologies (a good description here) and as a result they are not just talking about apples and oranges, they are talking about apples and oranges and plums and peaches. […]
August 13, 2006 at 6:38 pm
[…] Auch ganz beeindruckend ist die Tatsache, dass der Serverpark seit der Übernahme durch Yahoo von 20 auf 100 Maschinen erweitert wurde. Einen genaueren Blick in die verschiedenen Zahlen und zählweisen kann man bei webanalytics werfen. […]
August 26, 2006 at 2:51 pm
[…] Webanalyticsbook added some graphs and a good summary of the main companies that guess traffic. Alexa: Alexa data is collected via the Alexa browser toolbar, which is obviously more often installed on tech interested users, than on average Joe’s computer. This means that more tech relevant users on your site increase the chance that your Alexa rank increases. Also software programmes like Alexabooster can easily “boost” your rank . Alexa only gives you an idea or a trend, but will never be accurate. […]
September 8, 2006 at 10:52 am
[…] As mentioned before Alexa has the problem, that it collects traffic with the Alexa toolbar, which is usually used by webmasters or technical interested users. This obviously caused technical related websites to rank higher than non-technical websites (Just google NYTimes vs. Digg.com). […]
September 24, 2006 at 10:44 pm
I was involved with another web analytics company you don’t mention (funny, since I believe it’s larger than the three you do mention). The biggest problem is that even with huge sample sizes, for sites below the top few thousand, you’re still dealing with a very small numbers of accesses among your sample, so it’s impossible to accurately extrapolate to the whole population with any confidence, even if you’re statistically tweaking the results based on demographics as Comscore does.
October 3, 2009 at 3:02 pm
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October 18, 2009 at 12:32 pm
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November 18, 2009 at 11:48 am
this is great info! i don’t find alexa significant at all
January 27, 2010 at 4:10 pm
i agree…forget alexa
June 28, 2010 at 5:35 pm
great information. I agree as well.
January 13, 2011 at 5:43 pm
excellent info. thanks alot!
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September 13, 2013 at 4:33 pm
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