Alexa Vs Compete

[dailypress]

I checked out a site example.com on both Alexa and Compete and Compete shows over 80,000 visitors/day while Alexa shows the site having less traffic than a site that I know has 30,000 visitors/day.

Which do you think shows a more accurate estimate of the daily traffic?

[woop01]

Add quantcast to the comparison and take the two of three that are closest to each other.

[dailypress]

Quantcast: horrible data for one of the sites. it shows 3K/day when I know the site has anywhere between 40-80K/day

on the other hand it shows better results than compete for one of the other websites I know of.

I guess you cant really rely on any of those mentioned sites.

[woop01]

No, you can't, but that's a given.

Just take them as a group of datapoints that give you a slightly better guess than a magic 8-ball as to what ballpark of traffic you are talking about.

[badbadmonkey]

Use Google Ad Planner, it's scarily accurate.

[goodsite]

Why 'Bing' is doing nothing?

[JohnRoy]

it's (scarily) accurate

On some, but not on all sites.

[janharders]

Yeah, it's pretty much niche-specific from what I've seen. I've made some checks for one specific niche where I knew the rough stats for quite a few sites and correlated that to alexa's data. That made it possible to predict stats for that niche (and country), but not necessarily for other niches or countries.

[Justin billy]

Thanks for sharing!