Ha. Quantcast is definitely the most "accurate", no doubt about it! ;)
Josh
· 2 years ago
Man, I just wish people would realize what a joke Alexa is to begin with and start using something like Compete.
Stat Head
· 2 years ago
I like Compete stats. I also like Attentionmeter.
Josh D
· 2 years ago
@Josh: Compete only estimates US traffic. That makes it completely worthless for most people.
One of the sites I work on has a rank of under 300 for Alexa, but above 20,000 for Compete. I know for a fact that the Alexa stats are fairly accurate, but because our audience is primarily European Compete sees us as insignificant.
Huw Leslie
· 2 years ago
It's working for me - the stats graphs are showing up on statsaholic.
Maybe Alexa/Amazon have decided to let it go.
Ted
· 2 years ago
This is an object lesson in when an open API really isn't open. If you're basing a site or business model on someone else's content or services, you have got to be prepared for it to be taken away.
Webanalyticsbook
· 2 years ago
Thanks for the update Pete. I noticed it yesterday as well. I wonder why it took Alexa so long to block Alexaholic. The service is out there for a long time
Christian DeVera
· 2 years ago
Too bad, that's why never base your business(if it is) on someone's API.I can see this happening to Twitter.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Huw,
Yup, looks like the graphs are working, although the letter of complaint is still on every page of the site. We'll see if it gets updated.
Jason
· 2 years ago
Nobody seems to be touching on the real issue.
Amazon has this whole initiative around web services where they are trying to court developers to build applications using these APIs. Now, they are trying to crush some little guy who actually built something that turned out to be really popular.
So, if I use AWIS, S3, EC2, or some other Amazon service, I'm helping out a company that is going to turn around and compete with me once I show some success.
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One of the sites I work on has a rank of under 300 for Alexa, but above 20,000 for Compete. I know for a fact that the Alexa stats are fairly accurate, but because our audience is primarily European Compete sees us as insignificant.
Maybe Alexa/Amazon have decided to let it go.
Yup, looks like the graphs are working, although the letter of complaint is still on every page of the site. We'll see if it gets updated.
Amazon has this whole initiative around web services where they are trying to court developers to build applications using these APIs. Now, they are trying to crush some little guy who actually built something that turned out to be really popular.
So, if I use AWIS, S3, EC2, or some other Amazon service, I'm helping out a company that is going to turn around and compete with me once I show some success.
Lame.