Hi, I am looking for a good on line source for web traffic data on individual sites (including, but not only, weblogs). As far as I know, there is www.alexa.com, which provides rankings and users estimates based on its toolbar's users. Does anyone know of a more reliable source? Thanks, Cristian Vaccari www.cristianvaccari.it www.comunicarepolitica.it
I doubt that there is any reliable source but you can get additional information with the Google Toolbar which also rates website popularity. Charlie Balch LSU Doctoral Candidate -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Cristian Vaccari Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 12:01 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] good source for web traffic data Hi, I am looking for a good on line source for web traffic data on individual sites (including, but not only, weblogs). As far as I know, there is www.alexa.com, which provides rankings and users estimates based on its toolbar's users. Does anyone know of a more reliable source? Thanks, Cristian Vaccari www.cristianvaccari.it www.comunicarepolitica.it _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
There is an interesting tool: www.google.com/trends You can only see keywords trends and make comparissions between regions. regards, ___________________________________________ David Esteban Reina Ejecutivo de Cuenta Indexcol www.indexcol.com Nos obsesiona sorprender Certificados en Calidad ISO 9001:2000 Tel: 57-1-6362828 Ext. 110 Bogotá - Colombia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie Balch" <charlie@balch.org> To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [Air-l] good source for web traffic data
I doubt that there is any reliable source but you can get additional information with the Google Toolbar which also rates website popularity. Charlie Balch LSU Doctoral Candidate
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Hi, I am looking for a good on line source for web traffic data on individual sites (including, but not only, weblogs). As far as I know, there is www.alexa.com, which provides rankings and users estimates based on its toolbar's users. Does anyone know of a more reliable source? Thanks,
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Hello All, I was wondering if anyone knew how to ID the server or general server location (either by city, state, region, or nation) of a particular website? Server names can sometimes be found via whois, but I am looking for a way to find server locations without trying to contact admins. Thanks, -TED Ted M. Coopman Department of Communication University of Washington
Hi Ted, You could try locating a server with tracert command. In dos window (start->run->cmd->[enter]) - tracert domainname.xxx i.e. tracert www.google.com (more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traceroute) For general info on: "How to find a host's geographical location ?" go here: http://www.private.org.il/IP2geo.html You may also try this: http://kharkoma.homelinux.com/gmaps/gmaptc.html - tracert + google maps. Some other, perhaps commercial software is here: http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/routes.html Best, Maciek On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:08:13 -0700 (PDT), Ted M Coopman wrote
Hello All,
I was wondering if anyone knew how to ID the server or general server location (either by city, state, region, or nation) of a particular website? Server names can sometimes be found via whois, but I am looking for a way to find server locations without trying to contact admins.
Thanks,
-TED
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I was wondering if anyone knew how to ID the server or general server location (either by city, state, region, or nation) of a particular website? Server names can sometimes be found via whois, but I am looking for a way to find server locations without trying to contact admins.
It is very difficult to do. You can glean some of that information through careful investigation of the network backbone and where addresses seem to be (by hostname, by organization location, etc) - but not at all reliably. --elijah
usually i use netcraft.com for this. On Jun 9, 2006, at 6:08 PM, Ted M Coopman wrote:
Hello All,
I was wondering if anyone knew how to ID the server or general server location (either by city, state, region, or nation) of a particular website? Server names can sometimes be found via whois, but I am looking for a way to find server locations without trying to contact admins.
Thanks,
-TED
Ted M. Coopman Department of Communication University of Washington
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Thanks, this is a great tool. It appears to be an easy way to get the name of the server and the date first seen, which is a clue as to when the site went live. As far as location goes, it has the nameserver and the nameserver organization as well as a designated nationality. Of course the question is, is there a relationship between the server owner and the server location? -TED Ted M. Coopman Department of Communication University of Washington On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Jeremy Hunsinger wrote:
usually i use netcraft.com for this. On Jun 9, 2006, at 6:08 PM, Ted M Coopman wrote:
Hello All,
I was wondering if anyone knew how to ID the server or general server location (either by city, state, region, or nation) of a particular website? Server names can sometimes be found via whois, but I am looking for a way to find server locations without trying to contact admins.
Thanks,
-TED
Ted M. Coopman Department of Communication University of Washington
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Hi Cristian, It depends on what countries you are looking for. For larger web sites in the United States and the United Kingdom, the most reliable I'm familiar with is data from Nielsen-Netratings or comScore (www.nielsen-netratings.com and www.comscore.com, respectively). They are commercial media measurement companies, and I'm not sure how easy it would be get the data you're looking for, but they might have it on their web sites or they may be able to provide some for academic research (not sure what their policies are on this front). In addition to traffic they would also have information describing the profiles of people who visit the web sites. Nielsen-Netratings has much data on many European and Asian countries as well, but different countries may have other sources capable of providing far better information. For example, Gemius has extensive information about many Eastern European countries (www.gemius.com - by way of disclaimer: I am the founder & majority shareholder of Gemius in my day job ;-)), while AGOF has data about Germany and Audiweb has data about Italy (www.audiweb.it - whose data is actually provided by Nielsen-Netratings). Many other countries have other organizations which collect & publish this kind of data. Many of these organizations have very detailed data, but will only publish (relatively) limited information on their web sites. Each organization may be willing to provide more information for academic research, but I'm sure each company has its own policies in that area. Which countries are you interested in? I may be able to provide a more specific list if you narrow it down (unfortunately, I cannot think of a single "global" source that would be able to provide data that is equally-reliable across all parts of the world). All the best, Chris Modzelewski Emerging Analysis Corporation / Gemius S.A. Cristian Vaccari wrote:
Hi, I am looking for a good on line source for web traffic data on individual sites (including, but not only, weblogs). As far as I know, there is www.alexa.com, which provides rankings and users estimates based on its toolbar's users. Does anyone know of a more reliable source? Thanks,
Cristian Vaccari www.cristianvaccari.it www.comunicarepolitica.it
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Hi Chris, Thanks a lot for your answer. I am interested in data about Italy and I have just written to Audiweb to see what they are up to. If you have other sources, please let me know. Best, Cristian Vaccari www.cristianvaccari.it www.comunicarepolitica.it ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Modzelewski" <chris.modzelewski@imetria.com> To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 1:29 AM Subject: Re: [Air-l] good source for web traffic data
Hi Cristian,
It depends on what countries you are looking for. For larger web sites in the United States and the United Kingdom, the most reliable I'm familiar with is data from Nielsen-Netratings or comScore (www.nielsen-netratings.com and www.comscore.com, respectively). They are commercial media measurement companies, and I'm not sure how easy it would be get the data you're looking for, but they might have it on their web sites or they may be able to provide some for academic research (not sure what their policies are on this front). In addition to traffic they would also have information describing the profiles of people who visit the web sites.
Nielsen-Netratings has much data on many European and Asian countries as well, but different countries may have other sources capable of providing far better information. For example, Gemius has extensive information about many Eastern European countries (www.gemius.com - by way of disclaimer: I am the founder & majority shareholder of Gemius in my day job ;-)), while AGOF has data about Germany and Audiweb has data about Italy (www.audiweb.it - whose data is actually provided by Nielsen-Netratings).
Many other countries have other organizations which collect & publish this kind of data. Many of these organizations have very detailed data, but will only publish (relatively) limited information on their web sites. Each organization may be willing to provide more information for academic research, but I'm sure each company has its own policies in that area.
Which countries are you interested in? I may be able to provide a more specific list if you narrow it down (unfortunately, I cannot think of a single "global" source that would be able to provide data that is equally-reliable across all parts of the world).
All the best, Chris Modzelewski Emerging Analysis Corporation / Gemius S.A.
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Hi, I am looking for a good on line source for web traffic data on individual sites (including, but not only, weblogs). As far as I know, there is www.alexa.com, which provides rankings and users estimates based on its toolbar's users. Does anyone know of a more reliable source? Thanks,
Cristian Vaccari www.cristianvaccari.it www.comunicarepolitica.it
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