Recently, there has been a proliferation of automated “website value” estimators. These sites claim to be able to compute the cash value of your website given only its URL. I like this idea of course (who doesn’t like to punch in their URL and see the results?). The problem of course, is that it doesn’t work very well. I started with the popular “Website Value Calculator” (located here) and tried entering a few different sites.
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How Much is Your Website Worth?
January 8th, 2008 Roven Posted in mathematical models, website stats 1 Comment »
Why Alexa is Broken (and basically useless)
January 8th, 2008 Roven Posted in mathematical models, quantcast, website stats 2 Comments »
I can’t tell you the number of conversations I’ve had with fellow web publishers who cite their Alexa ranking with pride. I usually make a bet with them that I can start a site with any random name, and break into the top 10,000 ranks within 1 week. Not that this is a practice I engage in — I’m merely saying this to illustrate my point: that Alexa is severely broken, and will never be an accurate source of web traffic information.
Google Analytics vs. AWstats - Why are the numbers different?
January 5th, 2008 Roven Posted in mathematical models, website stats 1 Comment »
Google Analytics and AWstats were both reporting data on the same website. The numbers should have looked the same, but they couldn’t have been more different.
Not too long ago I made the switch from AWstats to Google Analytics. I was stunned to see a vast difference in the data reported by the two statistical packages. AWstats was reporting nearly three times the number of pageviews that Analytics was reporting. What was going on?
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How long does it take to build web traffic?
January 5th, 2008 Roven Posted in mathematical models, quantcast, repeat visits, tips, website stats, website traffic 1 Comment »
How fast does web traffic grow? (And how to grow your monthly visitors quickly!)
Most bloggers, developers and webmasters will look at the stats of competing sites and say “I can do that too”. And yes, you probably can. And while much has already been written about “how” you can create compelling web content, and “how” you can grow your traffic — in this post we’ll talk a little bit about “how long” it takes to grow your web traffic, and how to accelerate your traffic growth.
For starters, there’s no simple answer to this question because there’s no simple answer to “What is content”? There are hundreds of different types of content from blogs, to online applications to social networking sites, etc. But there are some truths that are widely understood:
