Originally Posted By Indigo I find these quantcast numbers to be very interesting. Based on my reading of Quantcast, Compete.com, and Alexa compared with what my stats and Google Analytics say, you should take these rankings with a sizable grain of salt. Quantcast is the best of the three, however. As for MouseInfo.com closing, I'm sad to see it go rather than merge into another site. There have been a few boards and a few disney/pixar blogs who have merged recently and I rather expected it to be the trend so communities and friendships that developed could remain. -John www.thedisneyblog.com
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x <<<I don't understand this statement at all. What constitutes "slow"?>>> Not a lot of new post. But this is just my opinion.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>...you should take these rankings with a sizable grain of salt.<< Hear, hear! I have looked at Quantcast's rather baffling analysis in the past. This is a telling comment on their LP page: >>We have sparse data about laughingplace.com, so these are rough estimates.<< Yet, they still confidently assert, >>The site caters to a fairly wealthy, slightly more female than male group.The typical visitor uses Trip Advisor, visits Michael's Stores, and shops at Barnes & Noble.<< See also the chart for JimHillMedia. It's essentially a flatline, with just two spikes. Averaged out, the numbers look a lot more respectable than they actually are. <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/jimhillmedia.com" target="_blank">http://www.quantcast.com/jimhi llmedia.com</a>
Originally Posted By ArchtMig I still don't get the numbers. Forgive me, but can someone (Jon? anyone?) please explain how "6,065" ranks number 1 while "411,243" ranks #100? What are they counting with those numbers? Also, jonvn, any insight you can share as to Marcie's future plans? Hopefully she'll find another place to post on.
Originally Posted By disney68 Goodbye to Mouseinfo. I've lurked on Laughingplace.com, as I mostly did on mouseinfo, because it's such a friendly place. So hello everyone.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer The 6,065'st GENERAL website in the world (out of over 20 Million) is the Most Popular Disney related website (based on how many DIFFERENT folks show up to view the site in a single month, based on the Quantcast numbers), that is WDWInfo. Which has over 453,000 different folks based on their numbers. Second is JimHillMedia, according to Quantcast, with about 290,000 different folks a month. Basically we are looking at the "left" number just being a Disney related site, with the second number being the OVERALL web popularity number. So basically the left number is a "secondary" grouping of the main group.
Originally Posted By Doobie DarkBeer: I'm referring to unique visitors as well. LP gets far more unique visitors than the store and while we never give out specific numbers, both of those numbers are very far off. Doobie.
Originally Posted By jonvn OK, near as I can figure it, the first number, like 1 to 100 is the rank of disney related websites. The second higher number is that position among ALL different websites. Don't worry about the unique visitor thing. It is just the ranking of the website amongst all websites, disney or not. As to Marcie, I have no idea. I don't know her, or who she is (I've asked. You might as well ask about nuclear launch codes). So I don't know what her plans are. Right now, we're just trying to pick it back up off the ground. We do have an intermediate site running if you want to look. Everyone is welcome to come. The main Mouseinfo web site page has been rewritten and pretty much has the entire story, and the link to where the temp site currently is. Go take a look and see. I can try to answer any other questions...it's not really any big secret or complicated matter. Or sign up at the temp site and ask there if you want. Either way. So it's not really goodbye. It's going to take a few days for us to figure out what we can do as fast as we can do it. And I'm going to WDW on Saturday! So hopefully by the time I get back things will have firmed up a lot more.
Originally Posted By jonvn BTW, there are other lists that show Mouseinfo a bit higher up on the amount of usage it has...
Originally Posted By onlyme Of course, a popular, FREE, website that gets lots of hits, is not a guarantee of anything. That's why we need to keep those ads and 'hit' on them. I believe this will keep the site in the black. I know there's not much of a profit, but, hopefully, just enough to keep this place going. A 'labor of love' only goes so far.
Originally Posted By JeffG >> "The 6,065'st GENERAL website in the world (out of over 20 Million) is the Most Popular Disney related website (based on how many DIFFERENT folks show up to view the site in a single month, based on the Quantcast numbers), that is WDWInfo. Which has over 453,000 different folks based on their numbers." << Technically, the #1 Disney-related website on Quantcast is "Disney.go.com", which is ranked at #63 with a reach of 12,306,385... -Jeff
