Comments on: Did Facebook Traffic Outgrow MySpace Last Year?

By: Facebook Traffic Higher than MySpace Last Year? | Central Myspace Source

Facebook Traffic Higher than MySpace Last Year? | Central Myspace Source — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:28:31 +0000

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By: Social Media North

Social Media North — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:17:36 +0000

Wow – that kind of a level playing field and transparency would be great wouldn’t it? I guess we can hope…

By: Dave Fleet

Dave Fleet — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:52:55 +0000

Jenn is right – which is part of the problem here. Which metric is the most relevant? On the flip side, perhaps it only matters to those companies, depending on their strategies. Are they looking for the most people or the most traffic? Then again, those companies don’t need to look at Comscore or Google Trends – they have their own analytics (as Jenn rightly points out on her own post on this).

Facebook and Myspace aside, the most interesting thing here for me is which of these tools is most reliable. It would be great to see a side-by-side analysis of the services and sample figures from each of these services so we can compare for ourselves.

By: Jenn Mattern

Jenn Mattern — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:18:00 +0000

Woah, I need to proofread! I meant “Google Trends isn’t accurate either.”

By: Jenn Mattern

Jenn Mattern — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:16:38 +0000

Lisa, actually Google Trends is accurate either. Aside from not measuring traffic (unique visitors aren’t the same thing as “traffic”), their results’ accuracy is at least somewhat dependent on whether or not the sites allow Google to access their analytics data, as well as whether or not pages are being indexed in Google (where in this example, each site will have a lot of pages not being indexed).

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:45:18 +0000

This is interesting. From my experience one of the most reliable source is Comscore and Google Trends. As for Alexa, the rankings are not accurate at all because it only tracks visits from browsers or users that installed their Alexa toolbar.

Just my 2 cents

By: Myspace vs Facebook Traffic Reality Check

Myspace vs Facebook Traffic Reality Check — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:10:35 +0000

[...] Judy Gombita of PR Conversations forwarded me a link to a post by Dave Fleet, looking at Google Trends statistics for Myspace and Facebook. The chart makes it appear that Facebook is getting more traffic than Myspace, as Dave’s title suggests: Did Facebook Traffic Outgrow Myspace Traffic Last Year? [...]