It’s finally here… the new and improved compete.com!
Written by Compete (contact - e-mail) -- April 15th, 2009 |
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You’ve been waiting for it, and it’s finally here. Today, Compete and the compete.com team are excited to announce the unveiling of our new and improved site! Are we fired up? You bet we are! Here’s what we’re saying loud and clear with the brand new compete.com:
We’re changing the game!
Compete continues to take web analytics to new levels with innovative new products – the latest: User Generated Tags for sites. An industry first, we’ve rolled out user generated tags for sites on compete.com, giving you a window into the collective mind of the market.
Helpful Tip: As a registered MyCompete member, navigate to the sites that interest you and on the lower right corner of the page, add your tags or vote up community tags. It is that simple - share and benefit from the entire compete.com community.
It’s all about you!
We’ve listened, observed, and even spoken to you on the phone - you are our #1 priority. The new compete.com interface was designed to get you the important data that you need to quickly and easily make decisions.
Helpful Tip: Site Analytics is now named Site Profiles! Find detailed data on a single domain or use the Compare Sites report to benchmark across multiple domains. Search Analytics, Referral Analytics and Ranked Lists are all updated as well!
A little sizzle makes the data taste that much better!
Dynamic flash graphs, drill-down date selection, multiple axes, and a smooth new user interface brings Compete’s powerful data to life. We’ve added the ability to look at traffic and engagement data on the same graph, such as unique visitors and pages per visit.
Helpful Tip: Compare myspace.com’s UV’s to Pages per Visit. It is a great example of traffic trending downward for MySpace, but visitors looking at more pages per visit – looks like the core audience is hanging around longer than ever.
Data rocks!
We love tracking our competitors, and you do too – with our new daily digests (available to Compete PRO subscribers), you can get daily share-based data delivered to your desktop every morning. Just create portfolios of the sites that you want to track, and we’ll deliver a daily update of the most important metrics directly to your inbox.
Helpful Tip: If you are a PRO subscriber, run a Site Comparison report. Just below the “Compare” button click on “Add to Portfolio.” Once created, make sure that your email preferences for “compete.com Portfolio Digest” are turned on to receive Daily Digests. That’s it!
And we’re just getting started!
2009 is shaping up to be a big year for people who need data to identify opportunities in a tight market, and Compete is breaking down those walls for you. We have already begun working on the next BIG release (which of course you will see first) and it is another doozy. In the meantime, we invite you to dig into the new compete.com, and send along any feedback that you have on the new site.
Best wishes,
The Compete team
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April 15th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Though I like the new interface, I am COMPLETELY disappointed that you have decided to make more of your metrics only available to PRO users. I feel you’ve made the site almost useless to smaller sites that cannot afford to upgrade, but which might have in the future with the intelligence you had been providing,
Visits are useless without things like Page Views and Average Stay, especially when looking at competitors.
Disappointing decision, but not unexpected since you obviously felt that you had to monetize your service at some point. However, masking the reduction in data to free users by implementing it during a change in the look and feel of your site is a trick that won’t fool many, and does paint you as untrustworthy.
You’re still the best game in town, but I believe you should have reduced data offered separately from the redesign and explained why you had to do it.
April 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
I love the new site. I never knew that the other data was available - paid or not - I don’t care since people pay comscore $50,000 for what the people view at questionable data at best. (not to mention Hitwise shady data for $30k)
What I don’t understand is how you can give most of the top level metrics away for free….why? When all your competitors charge crazy money.
I totally disagree with Mark - at some point you have to get serious and make an investment in your online efforts. Free is Free but if you want the data you can make decisions on you can either pay compete $499 or comscore/hitwise $30,000.
Rock on Compete. just don’t make everything paid…..
April 16th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Lower your ridiculous prices and I’d sign up.
April 16th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
These are good changes. Websites need to change in order to evolve.
April 17th, 2009 at 5:54 am
Wow! Even better transparency for the web. Makes me proud to be a Compete alum.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
“Ridiculous prices”? Really? Cheapest of this type of product as far as I know.
April 18th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Anstrac Paleo-ART
April 18th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
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April 20th, 2009 at 5:50 am
Ouuuuu, this is more better than ever. thanks
April 27th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
These are good changes. Websites need to change in order to evolve.
May 8th, 2009 at 6:01 am
“Compete triangulates multiple data sources, including ISP, Panel and Toolbar to estimate U.S. traffic.”
When can we expect to see more focus on non-US traffic? There is a world outside the US…
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:18 am
These are good changes
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