Comments on: Engadget vs Gizmodo Stats http://normalkid.com/2008/05/15/engadget-vs-gizmodo-stats/ macrumors.com and the web Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:05:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Aviv http://normalkid.com/2008/05/15/engadget-vs-gizmodo-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-34155 Aviv Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:34:43 +0000 http://normalkid.com/?p=89#comment-34155 A few months ago I personally spoke with a ComScore rep who attempted to break it down for me. Even though he worked for ComScore he had nothing but solid things to say about Quantcast. Once a site/publisher signs up with QC, the direct measuring is based on pure data x traffic. Not only do they ignore repeat visits, but the rep even said that some of the other traffic measuring companies can illogically count visits via FTP, which would of course mean image uploading, saving, publishing. Actually, every read/write action done on the sever would be counted as a "visit." For the sake of clarity, Hitwise's data is simply inaccurate. There's no doubt that Engadget's site gets a little bit more traffic. But, that's for reasons besides reach. The site recently underwent a redesign, it's snappy, it scales nicely and the infrastructure has clearly been smoothed out. While Gizmodo is my "read-of-choice" between the two, in order to be fair, Gawker could use a back-end overhaul, with some UI refinement for sure. They are quickly becoming an extremely premium "online magazine" of sorts and they deserve the facelift. Denton and Gawker would benefit from this substantially. A few months ago I personally spoke with a ComScore rep who attempted to break it down for me. Even though he worked for ComScore he had nothing but solid things to say about Quantcast. Once a site/publisher signs up with QC, the direct measuring is based on pure data x traffic. Not only do they ignore repeat visits, but the rep even said that some of the other traffic measuring companies can illogically count visits via FTP, which would of course mean image uploading, saving, publishing. Actually, every read/write action done on the sever would be counted as a “visit.”

For the sake of clarity, Hitwise’s data is simply inaccurate. There’s no doubt that Engadget’s site gets a little bit more traffic. But, that’s for reasons besides reach.

The site recently underwent a redesign, it’s snappy, it scales nicely and the infrastructure has clearly been smoothed out.

While Gizmodo is my “read-of-choice” between the two, in order to be fair, Gawker could use a back-end overhaul, with some UI refinement for sure. They are quickly becoming an extremely premium “online magazine” of sorts and they deserve the facelift.

Denton and Gawker would benefit from this substantially.

]]> By: iSmahPhone http://normalkid.com/2008/05/15/engadget-vs-gizmodo-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-17643 iSmahPhone Sat, 17 May 2008 19:59:46 +0000 http://normalkid.com/?p=89#comment-17643 Hi Arn Gizmodo is using sitemeeer, they have link on the site http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s15gizmodo&r=25 The link attached is to traffic predictor, which shows 50+mil visitors, I assume it is global number and not just uniques. Still this number will not go to 5mil unique visitors. Agree 6x is not accurate. Hi Arn
Gizmodo is using sitemeeer, they have link on the site
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s15gizmodo&r=25
The link attached is to traffic predictor, which shows 50+mil visitors, I assume it is global number and not just uniques. Still this number will not go to 5mil unique visitors.
Agree 6x is not accurate.

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