Web 2.0 news not on TechCrunch: Compete tracks attention data

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I just did an interview with Compete’s David Cancel, CTO, and Donald Mclagan, CEO who showed me their new features, just turned on today.

First, Compete is a site where you can see metrics from the million largest Web sites. Sorta like Alexa, but different.

Here’s how to use it. First, let’s look at traffic of Techcrunch.com. Yowza, Mike is up, way up!

Now, the new features: Attention. That shows how often people click on TechCrunch and how long they stick around. Clicks are up, average stay is down (Click on Engagement and select attention).

Finally, click on “Growth” and select “Velocity.” This shows you how fast traffic is going up, or down.

Oh, and you can compare big sites to each other. Here’s TechCrunch compared with CNET’s News.com compared with Om Malik’s GigaOm.

How does your site compare?

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9 thoughts on “Web 2.0 news not on TechCrunch: Compete tracks attention data”

  1. So is this the death of Alexa? Hitwise and ComScore? This is the slickest free tool offered to date.

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  2. So is this the death of Alexa? Hitwise and ComScore? This is the slickest free tool offered to date.

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  7. Robert,

    Yesterday was the very first time “Attention” and “Velocity” metrics were freely made available on SnapShot for over 1 million of the largest domains.

    The feature is indeed brand spanking new 🙂

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  8. Robert,

    Yesterday was the very first time “Attention” and “Velocity” metrics were freely made available on SnapShot for over 1 million of the largest domains.

    The feature is indeed brand spanking new 🙂

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