Compete.com had the wrong website statistics

I’m sure most of the web masters love their website stats, I check them regularly and find how my traffic is doing. Aside from Google Analytics, another website I regularly go to to check my stats is Compete.com. But recently, my stats in Compete.com has dropped crazily, from a 4000+ traffic monthly to a whopping 190+ last month!…

… Compete.com has been my favorite place to not only check my own traffic but if I was scouting other websites’ or competitors’ traffic. The best thing about it was that there’s no installation involved of any kind, it just measures all websites it indexes.It used to be very reliable and was really helpful for me to see how well I’m doing. But something in their system is wrong.

– Compete dropped my traffic to 190+ monthly! –

I’m not really sure as to how they calculate the traffic on a given website, I’m not sure whether it is like Alexa where you need a toolbar or plugin to be counted as a traffic but it sure can be demotivating. What’s worse is that how can you attract potential advertisers to advertise if they’re showing a record that’s way off. Last month it showed 190+ visitors only, but as I checked my Google Analytics reports, I got 2500+ visitors. I’m not so sure as to why that has happened but that seriously isn’t right.

I’m really starting to hate these type of analytics which expects people to install their toolbar or plugin to count traffic, with billions of people around the world still getting accustomed to the idea of the internet, how are you going to measure the visitors without counting those without the toolbar? I’ll be ignoring these type of stats from now on.