GoogleTrends announces that they can now track website analytics.  From what I can tell and testing some of my sites, it’s not accurate at all (at least not yet) and I believe that’s because they are only using opt-in data.  None of my websites use any opt-in stats so we will still have to rely on other sources such as Alexa for now.

The service in turn competes with established public traffic tracking services like Alexa, Compete, and Quantcast, all of which have often been criticized for being fairly inaccurate. Will Google, with its mounds of search and clickthru data be able to do better? Maybe, or maybe not. According to the product’s FAQ, “all results from Trends for Websites are estimated” and “anonymous opt-in data sharing setting in Google Analytics.”

via mashable alexa, clickthru, google, google trends, Launched, mounds, public traffic

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