Could someone explain to me why people even consider results collected via third-party browser toolbar to be relevant in any way[1]? I mean... I don't remember ever seeing anyone in IT with a browser toolbar, and I remove them on the spot from my non-IT friends' browsers. Call it selection bias, but I think that most of the time someone has a toolbar of this type is when one's IT friends haven't have time to get to ones computer and remove it.
[1] - this is a serious question that bothers me; I can't see how this kind of selection gives any kind of representative sample.
Does it matter for this purpose if there results are fairly terrible? I'd be surprised if they were so bad that the reporting off the loss of half their traffic overnight didn't at least resemble some real loss of traffic.
Really stop reading Techcrunch :)
No he's actually right, Alexa provides unbelievably bad results, completely irrelevant to anyone.
Could someone explain to me why people even consider results collected via third-party browser toolbar to be relevant in any way[1]? I mean... I don't remember ever seeing anyone in IT with a browser toolbar, and I remove them on the spot from my non-IT friends' browsers. Call it selection bias, but I think that most of the time someone has a toolbar of this type is when one's IT friends haven't have time to get to ones computer and remove it.
[1] - this is a serious question that bothers me; I can't see how this kind of selection gives any kind of representative sample.
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Does it matter for this purpose if there results are fairly terrible? I'd be surprised if they were so bad that the reporting off the loss of half their traffic overnight didn't at least resemble some real loss of traffic.
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