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I think this is an important point. As much as it's nice to think that SO is destroying EE. There's no evidence that compete.com's numbers are anything but fiction.

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Yes, but Alexa says the same thing and has for a while.

So Alex is correlated with Compete.com in this case. I'm still not convinced they represent actual reality though.

But I guess that is a bit more convincing than just the one.

I really wouldn't trust Alexa on that either. As far as I know, their sole source of data is a toolbar.

Traffic reporting companies are, more or less, the credit ratings agencies of the web. Their numbers tell you something, but never what they claim to.

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