Comments on: Compete Statistics as a Measure of ChemSpider Traffic http://www.chemspider.com/blog/compete-statistics-as-a-measure-of-chemspider-traffic.html Building Community for Chemists Tue, 21 May 2013 16:16:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Jane Savoie http://www.chemspider.com/blog/compete-statistics-as-a-measure-of-chemspider-traffic.html/comment-page-1#comment-195338 Jane Savoie Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:57:59 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=1156#comment-195338 In reply to Rich

I personaly refuse to use Google analytics as I don’t want them knowing my business, by installing their analytics you are giving them a huge amount of information that they may use to determine your search ranking

let’s say for example that you have a large bounce rate… Google could use that information agains you whe determining search engine position

Or lets say that you have an affiliate site that is designed to quickly funnel your traffic towards a merchant page, once again Google will be able to see that your visitors left your site in a hurry (which would not reresent a good user experience in the eyes og Google)

I prefer Statcounter.com… it’s awesome and was aroung long before google analytics… it’s Free!

]]> By: Antony Williams http://www.chemspider.com/blog/compete-statistics-as-a-measure-of-chemspider-traffic.html/comment-page-1#comment-140577 Antony Williams Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:44:38 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=1156#comment-140577 Rich….we use other tools for measuring our traffic as I have commented elsewhere on this blog. I’m not saying that Compete is a good or accurate measure but it had been suggested, on numerous occasions, as something to watch. It’s difficult to get accurate statistics from anywhere regarding how many people are visiting our site. How many people behind a single IP address visit a site for example? What’s good to see is the trend..

]]> By: Rich Apodaca http://www.chemspider.com/blog/compete-statistics-as-a-measure-of-chemspider-traffic.html/comment-page-1#comment-140450 Rich Apodaca Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:50:27 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=1156#comment-140450 I’ve never understood the appeal of using statistics from services like Alexa and Compete. Possibly to augment more direct measurement approaches – but as the primary measure – why?

What’s the advantage over Google Analytics, which is trivial to install, measures actual hits by only user agents capable of JavaScript (i.e., mostly browsers), doesn’t rely on extrapolated statistics from volunteers installing a plugin (who by definition aren’t representative), and is completely free?

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