Statsaholic Now Features Compete and Quantcast Graphs
Posted at 3:13 pm on August 10th, 2007 by Ron in Statsaholic |I made some changes on Statsaholic today, adding Compete and Quantcast graphs (two very cool companies, who have generously given me permission to hotlink their graph images). It’s nice to see both graphs side-by-side:
The two companies use slightly different representations of data on their respective graphs–Compete shows monthly unique visitors on the Y axis, while Quantcast shows daily uniques. They differ also in the color scheme, unfortunately, with Compete using blue, red and green for the first, second and third domain, and Quantcast using blue, green and red. It’d be nice to have some config options for these items, but the comparisons are still useful I think.
If a domain is a “quantified publisher” on Quantcast, you’ll see a breakdown of U.S. and Global traffic on the Quantcast chart, and you can trust those numbers more since they’re a direct measurement of site traffic. Otherwise, Quantcast numbers are U.S. only.
Statsaholic still gets crazy traffic, currently over 1 million page views from 550,000 uniques/month and rising. Funny how little hobby sites can just take off.
October 15th, 2007 at 9:56 am
[…] In February 2006, Ron Hornbaker created a tool that used the Alexa engine (owned by Amazon) that compared and ranked the traffic patterns of up to 5 different websites . The site was called Alexaholics.com and it became an overnight sensation among people that practiced Search Engine Optimization (SEO). While the initial relationship was warm, the situation turned sour in March 2007 when Alexa tried to shutdown Ron’s tool by demanding back the domain name through ICANN and blocking the graphs from appearing on his website. At the end of the day, Amazon/Alexa won and Alexaholics (now known as Statsaholics.com) shifted to using the graphing engine of alternate companies. […]