Can someone tell me what they use to directly measure their traffic? When I approach an advertiser, or when an advertiser approaches me - I want to be able to send them to a page where they can see how much traffic my site gets. I DO NOT WANT SITES THAT GIVE ESTIMATES!!!!! Websites like Alexa promote spyware and are not accurate. Right now I am using 2 different ways to directly measure traffic on my site. Google analytics - The public can not view these charts. Quantcast - For the second time in about 8 months quantcast has changed my account ID. This caused the traffic from my sites to look like it had dropped off. The first time they did this I stopped using them for about 4 months. And dang it they did it again after only 3 months of measurements. For those of you that dont know what quantcast is, here is a link - http://www.quantcast.com/ Whats really bad - if you get over a million page views a month, Quantcast can take 4 - 6 weeks to show your real traffic. I dont have time to play with these people. It takes 4 - 6 weeks to show my real traffic, then they change my account ID every 3 - 4 months. I am sick and tired of these games. If you directly measure your traffic - what website are you using? Keep in mind I will be showing these pages to potential advertisers. So I need something that is professional looking, and shows the difference between International and USA traffic. If you are directly measuring your traffic, can also you provide a link to your profile on the tracking site? I want to see what the actual charts and graphs look like.
Thank you, that is perfect. I wish I would have found that tracking tool before quancast. Now I have lost several months of tracking because my account number got changed. The last time I checked my quantcast account, one of my forums was getting almost 1.9 million page views a month and still going up. And now, I do not have anything to show advertisers. I will NEVER recommend quantcast to anyone ever again!!!!!