Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 by Andy Beal

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Web Site Attention is the New Page View

R/WW takes a look at Compete’s attempt to track the engagement level of web sites by looking at more than just visitors and page views.

With increasing use of Flash and Ajax, using page views as a measure of a site’s popularity becomes more redundant (since only one page actually loads). To help marketers better research the popularity of web sites, they’ve introduced two new metrics:

  • Attention: The total time spent on a site as a percentage of the total time spent online by all U.S. internet users
  • Velocity: The relative change in daily Attention; velocity is used to determine the relative growth of a website compared to other sites

Here are the top 20 web sites in February, ranked by consumer attention, according to Compete.


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5 comments on “Web Site Attention is the New Page View”

  1. Brian Chappell Says:

    April 3rd, 2007 at 10:22 am

    I think compete.com is great. It seems to be much better at ranking sites then Alexa. As we all know Alexa can be gamed is is inherently flawed, I have been waiting for years to find an alternative. I find there firefox toolbar plugin to be pretty handy as well.

  2. Drew Stauffer Says:

    April 3rd, 2007 at 11:23 am

    This should help out so much with flash and ajax sites.

  3. Andy Beard Says:

    April 3rd, 2007 at 11:47 am

    Someone from Compete actually came knocking on my inbox to write something, and I suggested I would if they created a toolbar that worked in Firefox and didn’t kill Google Reader.
    I didn’t receive a reply.

  4. Friday Tea Time - 4/6/07 » TheMadHat Says:

    April 6th, 2007 at 1:26 pm

    [...] * Analytics time folks. Since Google released their Website Optimizer to the world, here are 64 things to test that will get you started. Go create some linkbait but remember it is as useful as a pitchfork in a space battle without analytics. Forget the page view though, since attention seems to be the word of the day. I don’t buy it. Revenue is my word of the day. [...]

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    April 11th, 2007 at 10:53 am

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