Compare Site Traffic Trends

Hot on the heels of our traffic history feature we have a new comparison tool available as of this evening. On site profile pages you'll notice a 'compare' button which will take you to a trend analysis tool capable of mapping up to five different domains side by side.

For example, here you can see a comparison of answers.google.com and answers.yahoo.com.

Its a little hard to see the Google Answers traffic here as Yahoo reaches so many more people on a daily basis. To deal with situations like this we also provide a 'Relative' check box. Check this and the traffic trends will be compared on a relative performance basis since the beginning of the period.

Together these two views provide some color on Google's recent decision to discontinue their Answers service.

Comments

[BarEditor]

This is great to compare relatively where we stand with close competitors.

Curious to know if you've considered "ordering" your Index by rank?

It would be great to see who we're next (that is rankwise).

If we're ranked 250,051, it would be great to know who's 250,050 and just how much traffic they have over us to be ranked.

Is this something in the works?

[Billy The Blogging Poet]

I was just looking through your FAQ but was unable to find the answer I was looking for. After a site owner has added your code, how long does quantification require before the facts are in?

[Konrad]

Billy, it typically takes two days before we start reporting on your traffic. We want to make sure that we represent your audience size with at least one full day of data. As we collect more data over time we will continue to add new analysis features relating to your audience. If there are specific things you'd like to see please let us know.

[Konrad]

BarEditor, good idea. Its one of the many things that we have on our todo list. We'll keep adding features, so please keep the suggestions coming.

[vipvoy]

hey great site thank for the info

[Baylink]

Typical, though not, I would have thought, of Google.

Quality of answers is -- from where I sit -- much more important than number of visitors.

[Pan_theFrog]

How are you all getting along at doing something about the sites getting very few hits, but still getting decent rankings, like betterworld.net (rank 258,369 w/ under 25 hits a day), pimpnflyguy.com (rank 257,382 w/ under 4 hits a days since Jan 23) archimedes-lab.org (rank 156,874 which has had 1 hit since Jan 24)?

I am asking as I see that my ranking changes daily, but these folks just seem to idle along at the rank they might have held in the past.

[Konrad]

Pan, we know about the problem and should have a fix soon.

[James Carney]

What does relative men? I see a comparison, but have no idea what relative means...

[Konrad]

James, relative means how one site's traffic fluctuations and growth compares to another. If two sites are approximately the same size then this can be seen without the relative option turned on, but if one site is much larger than the other it can be difficult to see the trends. By selecting the relative option, the traffic data is standardized such that each chart displays the relative traffic levels as a percentage compared to the traffic at the beginning of the period. This lets you see how one particular site is doing 'relative' to others.