Comments on: Compete Reports Fastest Moving Sites 2006-2007 — Are the Numbers Correct? http://www.centernetworks.com/compete-reports-fastest-growth-in-2007 Web 2 and Social Media News and Reviews Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:50:56 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Paul Bannister http://www.centernetworks.com/compete-reports-fastest-growth-in-2007/comment-page-#comment-14459 Paul Bannister Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-14459 Well, either way we're happy to be on the list, but at the end of the day, all of the aggregated statistics sites/services (Compete, Alexa, Comscore, whatever) are going to be very inaccurate at the low-end and get more accurate the larger the site is. If you compare the services you'll see pretty huge swings in differences, as so much of it comes down to their methodology for counting and measurement. Even at the scale we're at now, Compete is about 10-15% off actual numbers, but that isn't so bad - our 2006 number is off by 100%. So based on our numbers we're up over 4,000% by visits. But like I said, either way it's great to be on the list! Well, either way we’re happy to be on the list, but at the end of the day, all of the aggregated statistics sites/services (Compete, Alexa, Comscore, whatever) are going to be very inaccurate at the low-end and get more accurate the larger the site is. If you compare the services you’ll see pretty huge swings in differences, as so much of it comes down to their methodology for counting and measurement.

Even at the scale we’re at now, Compete is about 10-15% off actual numbers, but that isn’t so bad – our 2006 number is off by 100%. So based on our numbers we’re up over 4,000% by visits.

But like I said, either way it’s great to be on the list!

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