I got advanced notice yesterday afternoon that Compete was releasing new enhancements related to Attention Metrics - I was not able to write about it yesterday (their request) and today I was too busy till now to post.
I think the interface has gotten a lot better - take a look:
You can now Embed charts (very Viral…good idea!) - I compared my blog to Webanalyticsbook and webanalyticsdemystified - the numbers have to be way off to be way off though…..but we already know that - I had at least 3.5 times as many unique "people" come to my site in March 2007 as Compete shows. For Visits, Compete shows about 1/3 of my actual visits. But if the same bias apply to other sites I'm comparing against, it doesn't matter that much if the numbers are off.
There was not enough information for Engagement Metrics (Attention Daily) but it does seem as if Webanalyticsdemystified is more engaging than my or Sebastian's blog.
On the other hand, I'm in a neck to neck race with Eric on how many pages (posts) people read (I guess on my site - people read faster)!
A lot of good stuff in this update - too bad the Engagement parts don't work on smaller sites like ours. Even when I compared Apple, Dell, HP and IBM, thinking I'd get something - I got nothing.
But it's a good improvement for Compete.com's interface nonetheless - I'm hoping to meet Compete next week at SES, and maybe we can go over further improvements they have in the pipeline.
