Howdy, Stranger!

It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!


New on LowEndTalk? Please Register and read our Community Rules.

All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.

How websites like similarweb.com know the traffic ?

How websites like similarweb.com know the traffic website gets ? How much Visit Duration/ Pages per Visit /Visitors country ?

Comments

  • HarambeHarambe Member, Host Rep

    They pull the numbers out of their ass.

  • @Harambe said:
    They pull the numbers out of their ass.

    Ta-Daa

  • RadWebHostingRadWebHosting Member, Host Rep

    @webclouddev said:

    @Harambe said:
    They pull the numbers out of their ass.

    Ta-Daa

    There’s probably some level of ass-pulling involved. It’s far from a perfect science, I would venture to guess.

    Thanked by 1Amitz
  • ...Our approach to data is guided by the principle of “methodological pluralism” – a tenet in the philosophy of science that all methodologies have strengths and weakness, and the best approach to “triangulating the truth” is to use multiple algorithms and data sources... (similarweb.com/corp/ourdata/)

    Thanked by 1Amitz
  • Their data was never inline with my own metrics. They guess.

    Thanked by 1ITLabs
  • @ITLabs said:
    ...Our approach to data is guided by the principle of “methodological pluralism” – a tenet in the philosophy of science that all methodologies have strengths and weakness, and the best approach to “triangulating the truth” is to use multiple algorithms and data sources... (similarweb.com/corp/ourdata/)

    In other words "snake oil bullshit".

    Thanked by 1ITLabs
  • AFAIK, they bought data from many analytics services, ads services.

Sign In or Register to comment.