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Comparing traffic on websites interests me. Until recently Alexa was the only site I was aware of to compare for example Active Rain and other sites. 
realtownblogs.com (rank 273,018)
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11 Comments on An alternative to Alexa - Quantcast
Maureen :: I had never heard of it so, I checked it out. It had us (realestateshows.com) listed at a rank of 12,598 out of 20,084,980 sites. But the data was so far off. They had our estimated monthly unique visitors for November at around 90,000. Our actual unique visitors for November was over 500,000. The problem with these sites is that they require a special javas cript to track your pages accurately. There are too many of these places for people to populate their code with every java script just so you can show up on the latest ranking accurately.
I't's hard to compare traffic on these sites when the numbers are so skewed.
I have the Javascript on my Discover Columbus Blog.. hey MY Fairy Blogmother Frances Flynn Thorsen wrote about it on BlogTalk... I am not sure if she said "add the javascript..." but I know she had a link (which I can not locate) that convinced me via her favorite techno guru to go to the site. Once I got to the site I know I was convinced to add the javascript...I could not get into my account last night (password?) Is it anywonder I lost my WP blog?
So Alexa sucks (but I love it) and Quantcast sucks (they've got pie charts!!! graphs...lotsa graphs.) I found Alexa thanks to reading Dustin Luther on Rain City Guide... found Quantcast thanks to reading something on BlogTalk (RTBlogs) from my Fairy Blogmother... a real smart cookie when it comes to blogging...
Just don't think of these things?
I signed up a few months ago with these guys and inserted the appropriate tracking code on Rain City Guide... It is interesting stuff and their demographic data is top notch!
About the only other site I'm aware of with free demographic data is the Microsoft AdCenter labs... Less demogrpahic information, but probably even higher quality.
-Dustin
I signed up with them and have been very impressed. Simple pixel in the footer. Great service, great data, and free.
If you don't like the numbers you see with Alexa, you can't do anything about it. If you don't like the numbers in Quantcast, you can provide feedback and correct them,
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Thanks Dustin. I looked at the Microspft AdCenter link briefly
M thanks for the input. I need to go find my password for Quantcast and get into my account.
Another alternative is http://snapshot.compete.com from the market research firm Compete. We have been around for six years and what is considered the best data in the online research space. We have a representative panel of 2 million consumers versus the pixel approach that Quantcast uses. Its proven to be much more accuratre. Here is a link to Active Rain with traffic statistics: http://snapshot.compete.com/activerain.com+
Thanks Stephen.
Interesting stats for Active Rain fom Compete:
people 32,004
104.0%
The number of people in the U.S. estimated to have visited a domain. People counts are also known as unique visitors - they only count a person once no matter how many times they visit a site in a given month.
Rank 49,728
Compete ranks the top one million domains based on the number of People in the U.S. they attract in a given month. The Compete Rank currently does not consider page views or number of visits made to the site.
Avg. Stay 21:54
The factors that are determinant in a website's http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=www.fortunehotels.in Alexa rankings apart from the data collected from the users of the Alexa toolbar are no where clearly mentioned. This somehow brings in a question of doubt and credibility issues as far as the Alexa rankings are concerned. However, even today the Alexa toolbar has the largest chunk in determining the ranking of a website.
OK
Thanks