Compete: Analytics at Your Fingertips

25 January, 2010 - 07:00 AM - 15 Comments

I read about Compete.com from Web Site Magazine, and was always wondering if there was a website that gave estimates of traffic without requiring an account.Â Compete.com is such a site that will show you the estimated traffic any website gets on the web.Â I compared compete.com stats of DragonBlogger.com and found them to be within 2% of Google Analytics reports month by month which is incredible accuracy.

In fact, many people have claimed that Compete.com which doesn’t record bots can be more accurate than Google Analytics for showing you your stats and rankings.
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Compete.com is a good way for advertisers to get a feel for how much traffic your site gets and use that information to determine if they want to advertise on your site. You can also for free list up to 3 sites and compare your site against some of your fellow bloggers or competitors. If you sign up with a free account you can compare up to five sites to see traffic and how they measure up.

This is a really good tool for you to see the estimated traffic of sites you want to achieve, a quick scan of Problogger.net showed they average about 468k visits per month according to compete.com, and my site being at only around 16k unique visits by comparison still has a long way to go to catch up. I did however fare better and am now up to 10% of the traffic that ChrisBrogan.com gets according to compete.com.

With a quick free scan of my keywords and analytics, I can see the top five referrals and keywords to my site. I was suprised to see Leapfish in my top 5 referring engines, as they never showed up in my Google Analytics for some reason. Also I show Bing as one of my top five referrals according to GA, as well as Google being a much higher referral percentage, so I am not sure how it collects this data.
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Now, Compete.com for free doesn’t give you as much information as Google Analytics, but since it shows public information you should be aware of what advertisers and others can see when they run your stats on Compete.com. This gives you a fair understanding on what is publicly visible and helps you get estimated traffic on other sites so you can adjust and set your goals for your own site and blog.

Stack up, how does your site look on Compete.com? How does it compare to your Google Analytics numbers?

-Dragon Blogger

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Dennis Edell

lol Awesome, it's calling both my blogs subdomains and telling me to register.
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Google trends is a companion to Compete, Alexa, Quantcast and Comscore. We have used Google trends in compiling our directory at GHQ.com. It is an assistance to the other information available, especially when the information is conflicting.

Holly Jahangiri

compete.com does not know I exist.

I'm happily ignoring it, as well. :)
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cadilacjax

Cool thanks I didn't know this was out there. Gonna go take a look see.....
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Heather Kephart

Thanks, Justin! I'd never before heard of compete.com. I'm bad about tracking stats, but it's important for us all to have a look every now and then.
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James

I am happy enough with Google Analytics but Compete has a very nice and clean layout, I may just use it in future.

As for the results, it is a good reflection of what GA is picking up.
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dragonblogger

The free version of Compete.com doesn't compete with what Google Analytics gives you for free, but it is good to know what advertisers see when they look up information on your site.

Extreme John

I'm pretty surprised that the traffic stats that Compete puts out comes close to what Google Analytics does. Most stats programs are usually ions apart when it comes to numbers.
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Run it for your own blog, let me know how close it is to your analytics. I Google may sell its analytics to companies or something, and they can purchase analytics information of sites. They have to be getting their analytics from the search engines, or they wouldn't be this accurate.

Rob@Rockville Movers

I've compared Compete data to my Google Analytics data for a handful of my sites and for the most part Compete highly underestimates my traffic. Maybe it's more accurate for some sites than others, but I don't really trust it since it doesn't look accurate based its analysis of my own sites.

Harmony -Small Business Consultant Vancouver

Compete has been an excellent tool to use when working with small business to show them information they can readily use, and to help them see what the big guns in their industry are doing to be the big guns.

Eleanor Edwards

Hi DB,
It sounds like a great site. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with smaller sites like my own. I've bookmarked it though and will try again when we get in the top 1% ;)
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Rose

The problem with it is that it does not track sub-domains.

John Paul@MakeMoneyWithABlog

I use compete to track stats.. and some say compete gives you a better reading of your true traffic stats over Alexa.

What's more important, overall traffic or Unique traffic
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