Comments on: Two Alternatives to Alexa http://robertbluey.com/blog/2007/09/13/two-alternatives-to-alexa/ Conservative blogger and journalist with a passion for politics, sports and family Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:39:19 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jonathan Rick http://robertbluey.com/blog/2007/09/13/two-alternatives-to-alexa/comment-page-1/#comment-1105 Jonathan Rick Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:07:35 +0000 http://robertbluey.com/blog/2007/09/13/two-alternatives-to-alexa/#comment-1105 Just last week, I expressed the same thought: Alexa is unhelpful because it focuses on Alexa-specific "reaches" and "ranks," rather than unique visitors. By contrast, Compete, which calls its unique visitor count "people count," is very helpful (I used Compete to create this chart comparing Drudge, Townhall, Free Republic and AFA: http://nostrawmen.blogspot.com/2007/09/most-trafficked-conservative-web-sites.html) The problem is, everybody crunches its numbers differently. For instance, Compete (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/redstate.com/?metric=uv) says Redstate gets 55,373 unique visitors a month, whereas Quantcast (http://www.quantcast.com/audience-search.jsp?domain=redstate.com) puts that number at 32,524. Just last week, I expressed the same thought: Alexa is unhelpful because it focuses on Alexa-specific “reaches” and “ranks,” rather than unique visitors.

By contrast, Compete, which calls its unique visitor count “people count,” is very helpful (I used Compete to create this chart comparing Drudge, Townhall, Free Republic and AFA: http://nostrawmen.blogspot.com/2007/09/most-trafficked-conservative-web-sites.html)

The problem is, everybody crunches its numbers differently. For instance, Compete (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/redstate.com/?metric=uv) says Redstate gets 55,373 unique visitors a month, whereas Quantcast (http://www.quantcast.com/audience-search.jsp?domain=redstate.com) puts that number at 32,524.

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