Wednesday, 1 November 2006
Alexa Gets Competition 
Frequent readers of this blog know I have a penchant for traffic graphs. Until recently, Alexa was the only (free) game in town for that, so I often embeded its (or Alexaholic's) charts in my posts. Since Alexa is not often reliable (its data for Simpy doesn't always reflect what I see in Simpy's logs), I've often wondered when somebody's going to build a BetterAlexa.
Apparently, that time has come! I just learned about two sites that offer data similar to that offered by Alexa: Compete and Quantcase. I've played with both of them, and they give some interesting data. For example, here is information about Simpy.com from Compete and from Quantcast. One major drawback that both of these services have is their focus on the U.S. I imagine this limitation will go away eventually, and data plus reports will start reflecting the picture of the whole world. In the mean time, I'm continuing with Simpy Internationalization. I hear German, Chinese, and Portuguese might be coming soon.
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