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An alternative to Alexa - Quantcast
Does anyone use Quantcast to measure traffic for websites? Blogs? 
 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. "Using Alexa to Compare Traffic Across Sites" Dustin Luther of Rain City Guide, June 7, 2006.
Little itty biitty brand new Localism's Audience vs. the lots of things - Alexa graphs!
Active Rain vs. other social networking sites, incl. Dogster.com, Catster.com, etc. - Alexa graph!
Active Rain vs. MyBlogLog.com and others -Alexa graph!
Active Rain vs. other real estate blogging such as RealTown Blogs -Alexa  graph!
The problem is Alexa is skewed. Dustin Luther of Rain City Guide described it:
"All good stuff, but remember to take these statistics with a grain of salt. As Matt Cutts of Google discussed a while back, the type of people visiting a site can definitely skew these results greatly and considering Rain City Guide is in Amazon's backyard, we're more likely than most to have traffic from people with the Alexa toolbar installed. "
Much more eloquent than 'Alexa sucks.' Alexa tells you on their site why the numbers are skewed.
My fairy blogmother Fran Flynn Thorsen who is a big fan of RTBlogs (my other ... more

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