Statbrain.com : traffic estimates for those with no brain

by Lee Mathews Nov 19th 2008

During my morning browsing today I came across Statbrain - a web service that "uses different resources on the web combined with mathematical and statistical methods to estimate how many visits a website has."

I hate to break it to you, fellas, but you need to re-work your math ever-so-slightly.

According to Statbrain, things don't look good for us: Download Squad's estimation was less than ten visits per day. That's a pretty poor showing for a site in the top 6,000 according to Alexa. Better still, the list of similar sites returned a slew of gibberish domains including a pair of NSFW Blogspot blogs.

Yet somehow Statbrain was apparently worthy of a mention in the list of "Cool Websites" from a fairly well-known blog whose RSS feed I read regularly. I may miss the mark from time to time with my recommendations, but please call the Spanish Inquisition on me if I ever sing the praises of a failure like Statbrain.

If you're looking for a tool like this, check out Quarkbase instead - it actually provides some useful information and stats.

Tags: stats, web-analytics

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Compulsivo said 1:48PM on 11-19-2008

Try this URL:
http://www.statbrain.com/downloadsquad.com/

Estimated number of visits for downloadsquad.com
128,737 visits per day

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Compulsivo

kaly said 7:30PM on 11-19-2008

Mathews

I do not know what you meant with ''those with no brain''. I hope it is not what I think.

Anyways, the application worked fairly well for me for at least 5 -6 sites, and by the way there is an option to send feedback if you see that the stats are way off.

Kaly

Aibek said 4:23PM on 11-20-2008

While stats are obviously wrong for DS I found the estimates rather good for other sites. Better then waht I get Alexa, Compete or Quantcast.

Josh said 9:27PM on 11-20-2008

While Statbrain may not be accurate... proving so by using Alexo is equally so... that service is as notorious for innacuracy.

Shuaib said 4:07AM on 1-29-2009

I would like to know traffic stats for my website www.edeal.in

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