Apr 05
Compete
Compete claims to be the, “first social search solution leveraging community click-stream information to enhance search results.â€
What does that mean?
Well, they say that they “provide free information for every site on the Internet including site traffic history and competitive analytics; a list of available promotional codes across thousands of online retailers; and site-specific trust scores based on up-to-the-minute data from Compete and third party security services.”
Why didn’t they say that to begin with?
I keep reading a lot about Compete, so thought I’d check it out. I typed in the url of this site… and got this message, “Sorry, there is insufficent data to graph this metric. Please try again with a different domain.”
OK, I thought, it’s a new site, fair enough, so I entered the url of a domain six months old. Again, same message.
Head scratch. This hardly fulfills their promise of being able to, “provide free information for every site on the Internet.”
I know of a webmaster who boasts of 100,000 plus unique visitors a month. I checked his stats on Compete for last month - 13,798. I was going to email him a snapshot of the graph and stats, but having looked at forums and blog comments others are saying that the stats for their sites are also well off.
For now, I’ll be sticking with Alexa. Although Alexa is open to manipulation it updates regularly, and I found it has all the traffic rankings of a domain within a month of being online.
Related posts:
