Somehow I stumbled across StatBrain recently which at one time in history maybe, possibly had some point, but currently it seems completely useless. So what is StatBrain? Here’s what the site says:
“Statbrain uses different resources on the web combined with mathematical and statistical methods to estimate how many visits a website has.”
OK, StatBrain…let’s see how you do.
The way StatBrain works is you enter a website into their box and it returns an estimate of how many visitors per day the website gets based on “offsite factors like backlinks, Alexa Rank etc. Statbrain does not have access to log files or any counter information. The number of visits that Statbrain estimates gives you an idea of the number of visits that a website has, but not the exact visitor number.”
OK, let’s see how it does with WorkAtHomeTruth which gets anywhere from 1,500 to 3,000 unique visitors per day:
Estimated number of visits for www.workathometruth.com
Less than 10 visits per day
FAIL!
(Ironically I got an ad for BradsMoney in my results. LOL).
How about a big site like myspace?
Estimated number of visits for www.myspace.com
23,653,442 visits per day
OK. That would be 709,603,260 visits per month.
Now, StatBrain does remind us that “The number that Statbrain estimates is visits. It is also known as visitor sessions and indicates the number of visits that a website has. The number is not the same as unique visitors which usually is a bit lower.”
So, let’s see what a “bit lower” would be. Quantcast and Compete tend to be the more accurate sites for measuring unique visitors. So how does myspace.com fair with those website measurement services?
Quantcast shows myspace at 68.4 Million U.S. people per month. I’d say that’s “a bit” lower than 709,603,260 visis per month – unless the majority of their visitors are coming from other countries, planets, and galaxies (I don’t see how else StatBrain could even come close to 709,603,260.
The graph for myspace.com from Compete.com is shown below:
So we have one word for StatBrain’s myspace results:
FAIL!
How about if I just make up some website that doesn’t even exist and put it into StatBrain?
Let’s try globmonkeybeergrabberflapjack.com:
Estimated number of visits for www.globmonkeybeergrabberflapjack.com
Less than 10 visits per day
Success!
Check out http://www.webinfostats.com which displays unique visitor numbers.
Hmmm. Maybe.
Is 7.020
7 thousand and 20 visitors?
G’day
Statbrain might be wrong like you say, but you have to submit your url to it, like you did, then go back later. The first time you check it every ‘new’ url says less than 10 users. I just checked yours again and it was:
7,157 visits per day
Have you found any others since that you think are more accurate?
Regards
Glenn
Thanks for that explanation, Glenn.
Quantcast is the most accurate one I’ve seen and the one the ones that most large, commercial sites rely on.
I agree, this is ridiculous, Shatbrain.
I was hoping someone else found this site as lame as I did. It had our site saying 10 visits a day when we have 800-900 a day. I also tried emailing them to ask about it and have yet to hear from them or see a change and that was a month ago.
I think that most accurate predictor is http://www.webtraffic24.com. It also estimates your website value
I think statbrain is reliable enough because they provide information based on statistics gathered by sites such as Alexa.com and compete.
Information from statbrain is so inaccurate, it’s hard to be taken seriously, even with rough estimates. Its nothing more than a toy.
http://www.webtraffic24.com is wrong. My site has between 150 and 200 per day, but it wrote only 74
Hi! You should also consider http://www.estimix.com They provide a nice summary of the website performance. I trust that you’ll find this very useful cause it seems to use the Alexa traffic information quite well and provides much better traffic information.
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Above all, http://www.cubestat.com gives me the most accurate numbers.
What do you guys think of webstatshq.com ?
Here’s a report for workathometruth.com : http://www.webstatshq.com/www.workathometruth.com
Try a site called, http://www.sitelogr.com. That site is very correct for our site.
Sitelogr is awesome.
Hvae you tried reports from http://www.siteluck.com ?
Yeh, it’s a decent aggregator.
It’s IP2Location is pretty weak and easily fooled is the only downside I’ve seen on it.
I`m trying to try statbrain at least a week. It says that I must wai for max 60seconds. after 3h still the same. dunno. maybe they so popular nowadays?
I think they’ve gotten better over time.
Hi I found by way of HowIsMySite.com which seems like it has some cool links.
Keep trying statbrain but way too slow …
Keep trying but forever in a queue . Results seem off too .
Just cant use this . Way too slow , makes no sense.
I found too slow , in a queue and then a strange result.
I found Statbrain is completely dead. Which is a shame because I liked it. I found a good new replacement though: http://www.calcustat.com which calculates the number of visitors, the number of visits, pageviews and even estimates the sites worth. You can also see similar sites.