Comments on: Traffic stats via compete.com http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2008/10/traffic-stats-via-competecom/ a group discussion about the future of student media Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:45:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Greg Menkedick http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2008/10/traffic-stats-via-competecom/comment-page-1/#comment-382590 Greg Menkedick Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:53:43 +0000 http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2008/10/22/traffic-stats-via-competecom/#comment-382590 I'm always leary of these graphs as well. The only sure fire way to record accurate data is on the server hosting your website. Something very similar to this website is <a href="http://www.alexa.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.alexa.com</a> Google also offers the bechmarking data, which doesn't specify an exact site, but a group or genre of websites for comparison data. I'm always leary of these graphs as well. The only sure fire way to record accurate data is on the server hosting your website.

Something very similar to this website is http://www.alexa.com

Google also offers the bechmarking data, which doesn't specify an exact site, but a group or genre of websites for comparison data.

]]> By: albert http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2008/10/traffic-stats-via-competecom/comment-page-1/#comment-380490 albert Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:17:48 +0000 http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2008/10/22/traffic-stats-via-competecom/#comment-380490 Well, I don't know how compete.com compiles and it's statistics, and I can't speak for the other sites shown in that graph, but the line for dailypennsylvanian.com doesn't seem to correspond at all to our own google analytics data in either scale or shape. Maybe the relative comparisons are accurate though, no way to know. Well, I don't know how compete.com compiles and it's statistics, and I can't speak for the other sites shown in that graph, but the line for dailypennsylvanian.com doesn't seem to correspond at all to our own google analytics data in either scale or shape.

Maybe the relative comparisons are accurate though, no way to know.

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