Comments on: Playing With Numbers http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/analytics/playing-with-numbers/ Dustin Woodard's thoughts on search, social media, web analytics and the web in general. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:05:50 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Foliovision http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/analytics/playing-with-numbers/#comment-19083 Foliovision Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:49:05 +0000 http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/search/playing-with-numbers/#comment-19083 Interesting notion, but somewhat disingenuous. What do your recommend seriously as a way to gain competitive intelligence? I've found the Alexa numbers on my client sites to bear significant relationship to the real stats (you can see it in the visitor graphs). The industry is mainly real estate. Interesting notion, but somewhat disingenuous.

What do your recommend seriously as a way to gain competitive intelligence?

I’ve found the Alexa numbers on my client sites to bear significant relationship to the real stats (you can see it in the visitor graphs).

The industry is mainly real estate.

]]> By: WebConnoisseur » Blog Archive » Please Stop Quoting Alexa Data http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/analytics/playing-with-numbers/#comment-1090 WebConnoisseur » Blog Archive » Please Stop Quoting Alexa Data Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:41:28 +0000 http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/search/playing-with-numbers/#comment-1090 [...] I touched on this in a competitive intelligence metrics post back in October, showing that Alexa’s data is less accurate to determining true site traffic then the # of characters the domain name, but now I’d like to really illustrate how far off Alexa’s data is. [...] [...] I touched on this in a competitive intelligence metrics post back in October, showing that Alexa’s data is less accurate to determining true site traffic then the # of characters the domain name, but now I’d like to really illustrate how far off Alexa’s data is. [...]

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