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 …

One of the appeals of Techmeme is it’s transparent, always updated leaderboard. Techmeme ranks it’s top 100 contributors by the number of headlines each blog sends to the homepage. The ratio of overall headlines to …

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 …

One of my primary attractions to sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, etc is that they are predicated on distribution and portability. But a recent New York Times article ‘Craig Looks Beyond the Web’ made me …

A few weeks agon, I wrote about the trouble with PerezHilton.com as a business.
Since that post, Perez Hilton ‘quantified’ his popular blog with Quantcast and we have more data to look at.
It’s fascinating. Perez …

Mahalo has grown very nicely over last two quarters and, according to Quantcast, now reach over 800,000 uniques monthly. While my searching behavior still starts at Google and goes to Wikipedia for informational needs – …

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 …

Last night, I installed Mint (http://haveamint.com/) on RyanSpoon.com and am wildly impressed. It got me thinking about web analytics and my usage of various (and numerous) applications:

1) I use Google Analytics on every website… but …

Can web traffic and data determine the likely outcome of the 2008 election primaries? I put each of the major candidates through Quantcast and the results are quite revealing. The charts below are estimated ‘unique …