It is pretty easy to celebrate success (or sometimes failure) of our websites based on just our numbers (Omniture, ClickTracks, WebTrends, HBX etc), true delight comes knowing how you are doing vis a vis your competitors or industry as a whole.
Hitwise: biased towards users at home (they get their logs from consumer ISPs) Comscore: biased towards people that click on ads to ‘speed up their internet’ or ‘protect your computer from email viruses’ Alexa: biased towards people that install t
And I'd like to encourage everyone out there to sit down and understand third party measurement services before calling them "flaky". My bet is they are more accurate than internal analytics numbers a lot of the time.
Der comScore CEO erklärt sehr ausführlich die verschiedenen Messmethoden für PV und Hits usw. und die Probleme der Serverlogs sowie die seines Panels. Außerdem seien die TV-Ratings inakurrat, weil nur einer misst.