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Here's the problem: the site isn't listed in any search engine (the links to it are private and maintained by our clients) and I was wondering if there is some way to determine where the above volume puts our site in the web world overall. I know we're in the top 1%, but only because most web sites get almost no traffic at all.
Any help putting some meaning into our statistics would be much appreciated.
You can also check you site on [ranking.com...]
Both services are not accurate and you have to assess which one apply to your situation.
for some reason it is not returning any result at this moment in time but was quite reliable last week on the sites I checked with the results it gave
ncw164x
It said webmasterworld.com got 8 million visits last month and xbox.com got about 2 million. No way that is accurate.
The estimate for one of my sites is 3 times the actual figure.
Scott
Methodology is proprietary information and a closely guarded secret at this time until we have completed investigations into protection and copyright. Information is gathered from a large segment of Internet users
Never-ever trust any measurement that says "Methodology is proprietary information". If they won't tell you how they do it, you have no chance of knowing if the figures are right or not. Or rather, how wrong they are and in which cases. This goes no matter if they are called Nielsen or Doe.
>> WebmasterWorld vs xbox
Well, i could believe that - not the numbers, but that WebmasterWorld had more sessions. Still, if you know the facts, the numbers from the abovementioned service do not seem reliable. Not that i know the figures from these two specific sites though. Traffic figures are publicly available for the largest commercial sites in Denmark, Sweden and Norway measured using cookie data and consistent methodology, which also is publicly available.
Comparing the known (public figures) to the estimate (above mentioned service) yields great differences, not even ranking order is right.
/claus
No, not four times, on second thought i might be wrong. If you include the very young then xbox will probably see more sessions, and there's no real way of not including them as long as it's raw traffic. For some reason i did not think about kids, that was a big error, sorry about that.
I'll add that Alexa isn't ideal at all. Do read all the disclaimers and use it as a rough guide - provided you are not based in Korea and are not visited by a disproportionately large number of webmasters (or people with Alexa toolbar), or disproportionately large number of newbie internet users who are less likely to know about Alexa or .... you get the picture.
Never-ever trust any measurement that says "Methodology is proprietary information".
Agreed. Hitwise does disclose methods but it costs big money.
