"SnapShot: A Better Version Of Alexa"
- Greg Sterling, SearchEngineWatch.com
"New FREE ranking system better then Alexa by far."
- Markus Frind, CEO of Plentyoffish.com
"I forget what life was like before the Compete toolbar! As a publicist, the web is one of the most important tools I have to spread the word for my clients, and now I don't waste my time on sites with low traffic. With a quick click on the Profile button I can determine the top sites on which to advertise and promote...and skip the ones that don't reach enough consumers."
- Kate K., Boston, MA
"Compete.com is an extraordinarily valuable insight into "web" businesses - I must say - I hadn't used it much before today, but it is now indispensable. The epiphany for me was that there are SO many companies doing business on the web, and SnapShot is a great way to start with any of them with respect to financial, investment-driven analysis. Thank you very much."
- Peter Homans, Hedge Fund Manager
"They seem to get it quite right."
- Jason Baptiste, Publictivity.com
"Your graph is quite accurate and certainly far better than Alexa that fails to capture the massively growing popularity of MyHeritage.com"
- G. Japhet, Founder and CEO of MyHeritage.com
"As the online media planner's world becomes more and more complex, this is a nice simple tool and a good, additional touch point to use in the site selection process. Compete Snapshot also serves as a useful barometer for tracking the health of brand.coms."
- Greg Verdino, VP/Emerging Channels at Digitas, Greg Verdino's Marketing Blog
"The Compete Toolbar is fascinating. It's truly remarkable to have instant access to this information as I browse the internet and obtain automatic safety and savings checks on all my searches."
- Michael M., Orange County, CA
"The accuracy of Compete vs Alexa has convinced me to switch."
- Rogelio Choy, Let me be blunt
A brilliant tool for webmasters, SEOs and search engine marketing professionals.
- Eric V. Melin - SpiderSplat Consulting, Inc.
"I love its Engagement, Growth and Visitors views, the latter of which offers a concrete estimate of the number of visitors to any site (and its competitors), as opposed to Alexa's mystifying Daily Reach and Rank."
- Simon Dumenco, Advertising Age
"Compete Blog makes Stockpickr's Top 100 Favorite Finance and Investing Blogs list."
"To be quite honest, there are just too many benefits to the Compete Toolbar to squeeze into a measly 3 lines. What can I say about the toolbar with ease and confidence? It's absolutely amazing! My family only started surfing the web a few months ago. After quickly picking up not 1 but 2 computer viruses in a matter of 6 weeks, we were getting quite discouraged. But then I found and loaded the Compete toolbar, and in no time I was feeling more confident and surfing with ease! Anyone who loads and uses the toolbar will find in no time that it is a Trusted Friend. What more could you ask for from an internet tool?"
- Gail S., Ontario, Canada
"Their traffic curves seem to be dead on, and less herky-jerky than even Nielsen for smaller sites."
- Overclocked - The Tech Blog
"Finally, Competition for Alexa"
- Liz Gannes, GigaOm.com
"Compete - Can Bill Gross and Co. Answer My Last Question?"
- John Battelle, John Battelle's Searchblog
"First of, the interface is cleaner, simpler and faster than the one offered by Alexa."
- Alex Iskold, Regular writer for Read/WriteWeb and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AdaptiveBlue, ReadWriteWeb.com
"I find them more accurate for US sites than Alexa, and a lot easier to read."
- Howard Morgan, First Round Capital, WayTooEarly
"A quick, informal survey of consumer Internet VCs suggests that those that had heard of Compete.com were including its stats in their due diligence. So I pass it on to you."
- Alexander Haislip, peHUB.com
"Overall Compete's feature set is impressive. Also the shopping component seems to me to be a potentially very compelling part of their search site."
- Richard MacManus, Compete Takes On Alexa - Launches SnapShot and Social Search
"For web-marketing purposes, the Snapshot Profile instantly answers the two most important questions you can ask before spending any money for advertising: Where does this site rank among similar sites? And what does that rank mean in actual site visits? With a tight advertising budget, it's nice peace of mind. And when a client asks why we choose one site over the next, the peace of mind is passed on."
- Sean M., Cambridge, MA
"I'm always reluctant to download anything new to my computer, but the Compete toolbar is well worth it! On my first day using the Toolbar, I saved 20% at one of my favorite clothing stores and received free shipping on my order. From now on, whether I'm booking a hotel or buying a new pair of jeans, I'll check the Compete Toolbar first to make sure I'm getting the best deal possible."
- Anne, Boston, MA
"Compete.com Awarded for Best Community/ Blogs at the 2006 MITX Awards"
"I’ve done a little comparison with the results on it versus Alexa and actually think Competes are pretty similar - although in a couple of cases I’d say Compete is even more accurate."
- Darren Rowse, Problogger.net
"I look up traffic stats for startups on Compete daily."
- Michael Arrington, 2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn'?t Live Without - TechCrunch
"Of all the companies present, I was impressed by two. The first, Compete..."
- Stephen Wellman, InformationWeek
"I asked the question in my last post, “Will Compete’s toolbar become an essential tool for internet marketers.” After 15 minutes with the tool, and after watching the excellent Flash presentation about what this service aims to do, I answer with a resounding, Yes!"
- Paul Allen, Paul Allen (the lesser)
"I played with compete.com this morning and to be honest, its results better conform to my gut check and what I know from some of my companies than Alexa does."
- Michael Eisenberg, Partner at Benchmark Capital, Six Kids and a Full Time Job
"The importance of the web is increasing by the day. We are increasingly dependent on it, but there is one aspect that is missing -- a critical evaluation of consumer and non-consumer internet services. The market needs better information to measure the impact of this evolution and Compete.com offers a comprehensive, and more importantly openly available tool to help those involved make critical and important decisions. Compete.com has become a barometer for us at GigaOm when evaluating consumer-related web services."
- Om Malik, Business 2.0 Magazine columnist and executive editor of popular technology blog GigaOM.com
"Compete.com rules. They made a TechCrunch bobblehead."
- Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.com
"One of the most incredible things that the Internet has the potential to offer is increased marketing efficiency. Compete.com is making a breakthrough in transparency with its new tools that can finally deliver more on that promise than ever before. With transparency, everyone wins and I am excited about how great this will be for both consumers and marketers."
- Bill Gross, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Idealab
"For free data, compete, snapshot.compete.com, is the best..."
- Fred Wilson, A VC
"According to our analysis of data from Compete (www.compete.com), which provides more accurate user and page view data for small websites like TheStreet.com than comScore does, in our opinion, page views at TheStreet were up 20% from October to November and 70% from November 2005."
