Comments on: You Want Some Love, Yahoo (or AOL, or Google, or…)? Please, Please Give Us An Alexa We Can Trust

By: dobata

dobata — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:13:43 +0000

I’d bet on Google acquiring another company to do the service for them, when when they decide to splash some money to get the headlines. The death of Alexa is in my opinion inevitable and is just a matter of time, as dumbfounder many will suffer but we need something a lot more accurate that what we have now

By: Mike Levin of HitTail

Mike Levin of HitTail — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:50:54 +0000

Alexa shows what sites are visited in relative terms. Alexa is able to get away with it because all measurements are relative and nearly impossible to confirm (parts-per-million). Through Google Trends, Google while not showing what sites are visited, is already showing what keywords are searched on–and again, is able to get away with it unchallenged because they’re showing it in relative terms. It’s only natural that they would take the next step.

By: Cristian Mezei

Cristian Mezei — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:14:27 +0000

John, What do you think of Quantcast ?

By: Howard Owens

Howard Owens — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:17:07 +0000

Love the idea!

By: ~ SearcH EngineS WeB ~

~ SearcH EngineS WeB ~ — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:58:03 +0000

It is really not important how many generic visitors a site gets…..

What is more important are the common elements/interests among the majority of visitors

Some sites may attract mostly Geeks – others Entertaiment – others Scientists – others Academics…etc etc.

Digg users Statistics and Trackers like most every other high profile site.

They are more than welcomed to publically display them – like TECHCRUNCH and GIZMODO and Instpundit and Lifehacker Does and Michelle Malkin….etc etc

http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s26techcrunch

http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=sm7gizmodous

http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s11instapundit

http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=sm3lifehacker

http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s10michellemalkin

They have chosen NOT to – and that is their right……But may others ARE doing just that – What some feel they should hide this info is anyone’s guess

By: Pascal

Pascal — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:04:13 +0000

There is only actually, and it is called Nielsen Net Ratings/TnS Net Ratings. The problem is that it costs $40K per year!!!! But it is pretty accurate and is used by most large Internet companies.

By: Lars Koudal

Lars Koudal — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:50:52 +0000

I agree, we sure need it. But one thing might be a problem. I think there are quite a few businesses out there who will have a problem with this..

I for one have an unreasonable high Alexa ranking (although fading now) which helped me gain some sponsors through the ad networks i am participating in, and I gather I am not the only one.

Although, in the long run, I do believe that if Google or Yahoo decides to blow Alexa out of the water, it would be a great benefit to users and advertisers out there, giving a better and more realistic impression of web trends as well as traffic.

Now, who would do it? I would like to bet Google, but then again...??

By: dumbfounder

dumbfounder — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:16:23 +0000

they don’t want to do it because in the even that their stats are off, they are afraid of the bad PR that comes with it. If a big site comes out and says that Google’s stats are wrong, then that looks very bad for Google. As much as I hate to say it, because I would LOVE to see good stats out there, there really isn’t a lot in it for them to offer stats to the public.

By: Joseph Hunkins

Joseph Hunkins — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:49:35 +0000

Yes! Needed badly. I’m floored how much credence is given to Alexa. e.g. My blog with under 300 readers beats my Airport Code site with about 3,000. Silly Alexa!

By: TJ Mahony

TJ Mahony — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:27:22 +0000

Love the timing of this issue. Last week Compete silently launched SnapShot - a new, bigger and more diverse metrics service available to the public. Visit Compete's website, enter a website and hit the SnapShot button.

Note: Compete's numbers are US based and will not capture international traffic.

Compete is posting a tutorial movie on its blog later this afternoon for more information.