[Air-l] social networking sites ranked by traffic [methods question]

[Paul DiPerna]

For anyone interested in Web usage surveys and sampling/methods
procedures, I have a quick question..

  Do you see any particular methods "leader" among various website
traffic monitoring services?

The field that comes to mind consists of Hitwise (used in the O'Hear
blog post), comScore Media Metrix, Nielsen NetRatings, and Alexa.

My understanding is that comScore is generally the most valid and
reliable service.  I'm not a methodologist by any stretch of the
imagination, and so I'm be very interested to hear what people on our
list might say. 
 

Here are some supporting URLs:

Hitwise:
http://www.hitwise.co.uk/products-services/how-we-do-it.php

comScore Media Metrix (I've used comScore stats for a previous
conference paper):
http://www.comscore.com/method/method.asp

Nielsen//NetRatings:
http://www.netratings.com/downloads/us/NetView_US.pdf

Alexa:
https://websearch.alexa.com/static.html?show=webtour/start


It would be interesting to see social network site rankings based on
international usage..  I suspect market shares for MySpace and Facebook
would decrease when compared to US-based stats, but I'm not sure by how
much.  Cyworld, Bebo, orkut, and even Friendster have had considerable
penetration outside the United States.  


  - Paul


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> Subject: [Air-l] social networking sites ranked by  traffic
> From: Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu>
> Date: Sat, March 17, 2007 12:38 pm
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