Transparency and Analytics
October 31, 2007
As I was reading the post Ten Questions with Compete on Guy Kawasaki’s blog, I was reminded of a recent conversation I had on StartupNation with a designer named Paula about what kind of site information is proprietary, and if website traffic data should be considered proprietary information.
To get to the point, Compete collects information from web users and gives it away for free. It basically estimates the traffic information for comparative purposes in a more detailed fashion than Alexa, and displays this information for free on its website. But why should we go through the trouble? Why not give away the actual data as well?









