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Facebook: 2.8 Billion Visits, 21.9 Visits / Unique in February
March 18, 2010 – 9:33 am | 295 Comments
Facebook: 2.8 Billion Visits, 21.9 Visits / Unique in February

January marked the month where Facebook passed Google in visits and Yahoo in Uniques. Today, Compete released their February 2010 numbers and the trends continued:
1. Google remains the largest by reach (with 141m uniques) and …

Facebook Represents 7% of all Internet Visits
March 15, 2010 – 1:03 pm | 272 Comments
Facebook Represents 7% of all Internet Visits

According to new Hitwise data, 7.07% of all internet visits go to Facebook.
Google is the second largest at 7.03%.
And Yahoo is a distant third at 3.67%.

January 2010: Facebook Passes Google in Visits; Yahoo in Uniques
February 24, 2010 – 4:06 pm | 623 Comments
January 2010: Facebook Passes Google in Visits; Yahoo in Uniques

According to Compete, January marked the month where Facebook passed Google in visits and Yahoo in Uniques… both are major accomplishments. Even if Compete’s data is not directly tracked – this is important directionally. In …

ComScore Announces Self Service Model – Coming After Quantcast?
September 9, 2008 – 7:43 am | 766 Comments

At the poorly-attended breakfast session at TechCrunch 50 (maybe because its 8am) – ComScore has announced quietly that they are releasing a self-service model “in the next few days”. A publisher will be able to …

Dunkin’ Donuts Aren’t in California… Yet?
July 5, 2008 – 2:30 pm | 698 Comments

It’s July 4th weekend and I’m in Cape Cod… which means that I’ve now enjoyed several Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffees and wondered why the only DD coffee I can enjoy in California is brewed at …

Long Tail Analytics with Quantcast, Google Trends & Compete – Who Wins?
June 21, 2008 – 11:28 pm | 322 Comments

Google entered the public web analytics game yesterday by expanding Google Trends beyond search queries and into web traffic. Just a couple years ago, we had two options for web data:
- Comscore provided detailed analytics …

Google Trends Launches – Apparently I’m Techmeme’s 3rd Most Overlapped Site? (No Way!)
June 20, 2008 – 12:45 pm | 652 Comments

Google today announced that they are moving Google Trends closer towards Quantcast and Compete’s territories… This is potentially big news – but it depends on how transparent Google decides to be and how well integrated …

Using Compete.com to ‘Understand’ Techmeme and Its Audience
May 19, 2008 – 9:48 pm | 3 Comments

If you’ve read this blog often enough, you’re aware that I’m a big fan of Quantcast. I’m also a fan of analytics software / providers and was excited to try out Compete’s new pay-per-usage analytics …

Ron Paul Dominating the Web According to Compete.com
January 29, 2008 – 10:38 pm | One Comment

Last week I posted about using Quantcast to predict the 2008 election – and suggested that Obama and Romney were favorites based on a combination of aggregate numbers and acceleration of traffic.
That post resulted in …