Compete results for May 2009 are out and we are showing our continued progress.

Compete.com is a good tool that measures traffic using a variety of information sources including data purchased from ISPs.

It has a number of limitations, but it is good for making a comparision between websites to see their relative levels of traffic.

I check monthly to see our progress.

The compete website says “Compete is a new breed of web analytics company. We have a diverse sample of 2,000,000+ U.S. Internet users that have given us permission to analyze the web pages they visit and ask them questions via surveys.

We’re betting that the insights we create from consumers’ online behavior - whether they’re watching, searching, shopping or socializing - is valuable for companies who are looking to radically improve their marketing.

We think that web analytics means analyzing what consumers do across the entire web, not just what they do within a particular site, and that marketers can use this rich information across the entire company, not just for online media planning or site design decisions”

Compete the popular web traffic comparision site has updated with April 2009 data, we are pleased to see that our traffic continues to growth, albeit at a slower pace than in recent months.

Compete is useful in that it shows your performance relative to your competitors, as with all 3rd party tools though it uses a sample of data from its sources and extrapolates results.

All the same its encouraging that the trend continues on an upward direction, it certainly compares well with the data we get from Google Analytics, which is our own site based tool which has access to the real site traffic.

Our competitiors appear to be experiencing similar growth rates, some we are ahead of others we are still lagging.  Rest assured we continue to market Article Alley night and day to get the best traffic and exposure for our authors and their work.

We are committed to getting Article Alley back to the very top performing site in the Article Marketing niche.

Compete the popular web traffic analysis site - shows our steady upward progression. This trend very much agrees to our internal stats.

What is pleasing is that we have moved ahead of some of our competitors such as isnare and goarticles, though there is still much to be done to catch back up to the likes of buzzle and searchwarp.

We are getting there and will keep plugging away!

Compete the popular traffic analysis website also shows traffic rising nicely.

Compete draws its figures from several 100 sources so it tends to be a little more representative than Alexa. Good progress is clear which is great for our users and authors.

Compete.com has just published their November data, traffic is showing as 2.7% up on the month, which is pretty close to our own Analytic stats.

Third party results are a useful benchmark as we can track how our traffic is growing compared to our competitors. Every year since launch we have managed a compound increase in traffic of over 100%, we are hoping that 2009 will see a continuation of this trend.

A lot of new features are under development and next year will be exciting for our Authors and our Team.