Thanks for the information. I followed the link, and immediately recognized Quantcast’s web site. I wander over there infrequently, and keep thinking that I should make better use of this information. Next week is blog maintenance week, so I’ll put this on my list.

Love the blog – keep up the great work.

Interesting article. You’re very right on the inflexible y-axis offered by many of these tracking services – effectively renders the data next-to-impossible to read.

If you’re interested in going further with this, I am thinking that to support your traffic analysis rather than looking at page views and visitor comparisons would be to take a peek at the US demographics offered by Quantcast (see: http://www.quantcast.com/peltiertech.com) – this provides you with a much richer audience profile than Google Analytics or traffic trackers like Alexa will supply. You’ll get much more valid audience data if your quantify your site (adding tags like with GA). I’ve always found (I’m a web analytics consultant) that the audience data offered by such services is generally – at a high level – much more interesting than the traffic data from Google for clients. You’ll see that you appear to index well for males, no kids and grad school education.

Note – I don’t work for Quantcast, although it sounds like I work for their sales team!

Cheers, James.