Occasionally people ask me about Laughing Squid traffic and blog metrics, so on this post I’ve gathered the live output from the various web services that we have been using to track activity on this blog. Internally we use WordPress Stats, Google Analytics, AWStats to measure traffic and other stats.
Compete SnapShot
Quantcast
Google Trends
Laughing Squid Daily Unique Visitors
Alexa
Technorati Authority
FeedBurner FeedCount
Twitter Followers
I tried using the various Alexa embeds, but they would not work. If you know of any other tracking tools that we should check out, let us know in the comments. I’ll try to update and add to this post over time as things change and new services come out.
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So the $64,000 question – do any of these match up to your actual stats? If so, which comes the closest?
For a recent subscriber, what happened in Jun 07?
Eric: All of the services I use for stats tend to vary quite a bit. Between Compete and Quantcast, Quantcast appears to be more accurate.
James: I assume you are referring to Compete SnapShot, I have not idea what caused them to start reporting more traffic in June, maybe they changed how they measure things on their end. Laughing Squid’s traffic has been consistently growing over the years and there is not thing that happened in June to cause a sudden rise in traffic.
Hi
We are updating our publisher database and would appreciate if you could kindly send some info on advertising opportunities and audience profile? E.g. age groups.
Best regards,
Christoffer Knudsen