Getting Quantified
I’ve signed Blogdigger up for Quantcast, an Alexa-like service that offers the option of directly contributing stats to their system via a Javascript tracker. Before adding their bits-o-Javascript to a few of our pages, we were languishing in the rankings around the 50K mark; after a few days we’re up in the 15Ks (although the monthly visitors and other stats haven’t visibly updated as of yet), and I suspect we’ll go a bit higher before all is said and done. I’m not sure how much the ranking will mean (as most other sites aren’t using their code directly), but at least it gives a better picture of monthly visitors and some basic demographic information that can be useful.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
[…] In stark contrast to Quantcast, which, when you add their tracking code to your site, gives you more information about your site, Alexa, well, doesn’t. I added their traffic rank widget to a podcast site of mine, which gets around 100 unique visitors a day. We were at around a 2 million rank before adding the widget. For a while, we went up a bit, then plummeted down to the 5 million range…and then we disappeared. Now all I get from Alex is “No Data” and a suggestion to add their widget to my site…which, of course, I had already done. Ugh. […]