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		abstractbill on Feb 9, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spolksy and Atwood's StackOver is a huge success Compete tends to be fairly good at viewing the traffic trends for a site No it doesn't. Their graphs for Justin.TV traffic aren't even usually the same shape as the real thing.

defunkt on Feb 9, 2009 [–]

Same with GitHub.

jim-greer on Feb 10, 2009 | [–]

Same with Kongregate. Alexa is somewhat better. We use Quantcast's tracking pixel so you can see the real numbers.

dshah on Feb 10, 2009 | | [–]

The shape of the graph for grader.com is pretty close to the real thing (and eerily the same as Stackoverflow.com).

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/stackoverflow.com+grader.co...

(Which is surprising. Grader.com is nowhere near as useful).

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