Facebook Sees Flood of New Traffic from Teenagers and Adults. Compete. Quantcast - Open Internet Ratings Service. 6 Key Ways to Measure Your Blog’s Success. After the official launch on Monday of yet another service which measures popularity of blogs - Spotplex - it's time to revisit this space, long ruled by Technorati. Are the new contenders strong enough, and what's the ultimate way of measuring your blog's popularity and success?
(For an extensive list of tools to measure pageviews and visitor metrics for all websites, see our recent article Analytics Toolbox: 50+ Ways to Track Website Traffic). Spotplex We're starting with the newcomer, which may be first in this list, but it has a long road ahead. Spotplex has a strikingly simple, yet effective way of measuring popularity of blogs - it tracks actual visits via a script which blog owners have to install on their blogs to be included in the list. One would say that this is the most accurate way to track blog's popularity, but Spotplex's own results don't yet indicate that - partly because many big blogs simply didn't add the Spotplex script yet. Sphere Feedburner Alexa Compete Technorati. Alexa Web Search.