Competition is good. It spurs me on. It prevents me from becoming complacent. On the flip side, it also causes me to google obsessively and check out the trends of competitors at Alexa, among other things. As if that wasn’t bad enough, I discovered Compete, a tool that allows comparison of traffic for 3 to 5 domains. The man behind this company is Bill Gross who is also the founder GoTo which later became Overture and as we all know was acquired by Yahoo. So I reckon that the tool has to be decent.
Compete will surely ramp up my obsessiveness as I found it to be quite useful even though the source, relevancy and accuracy of the data for the traffic numbers can be disputed. I think it was Mark Twain who said “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics.” Nevertheless, Compete claims that their data comes primarily from US Internet users but that didn’t stop me from comparing three of Singapore’s meta blogs (using the term ‘meta blog’ loosely here): Tomorrow.Sg, Ping.Sg and BloggerSG. The comparison can be seen as the Singaporean meta blogs’ popularity in the US and as you can see from the diagram below, Tomorrow.Sg wins hands down.
November 15th, 2008
6 Comments at "Comparing Singaporean Meta Blogs"
Hi dude,
What are you comparing?
1) BloggerSG is a Spam content site hardly representative of Singapore filled with US blog spammers
2) Tomorrow is definitely the leader.
3) Ping.sg is not even in the radar. :)
So I find this post totally useless. :)
Dude, Not Wanker > The comparison is done just primarily to evaluate the Compete tool. In any case, I did say that I’m using the term ‘meta blogs’ loosely. Like you mentioned, tomorrow.sg is indeed the leader while ping.sg isn’t in the radar, and the results from the tool does confirm the hunch.
Cheers,
Dipankar
The Compete.com service is pretty solid, but you were right to point out that their data source is focused on the U.S.. I sent an email to the company a few weeks ago about adding an international component and they indicated ‘intl’ is on their radar. They explained that they were focused on making sure they were accurate, which is somewhat refreshing considering the random nature of Alexa.
Anyways, good stuff.
Timmy > As you rightly pointed out, Alexa seems to be erratic with its data and Compete is a good tool that can complement, if not replace, Alexa. Great to hear that they reverted back saying that International data is on the ‘radar’ (hopefully, it doesn’t take too long).
Cheers,
Dipankar
Hehehe comparing for fun, yesterday.sg, todaylonine.com.sg and tomorrow.sg http://snapshot.compete.com/yesterday.sg+todayonline.com+tomorrow.sg+
Interesting tool. Just tried it out. Data is limited to compete toolbar users.
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