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Heysan (YC 07) - 100 million monthly page views and 600,000 users

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Re: Heysan (YC 07) - 100 million monthly page views and 600,000 users

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From panels/ISPs, -OR- You insert some js in your pages, and it's "quantified". They actually have some pretty cool stats, and exact numbers unlike alexa.

problem 1: phones don't do js problem 2: phones don't have panels problem 3: phones don't connect to isp's they connect to carrier wap gateways. One attempt to track mobile is from Opera but it's highly skewed to the type of people that have Opera on their phones and the activity that's significant for them: http://www.opera.com/mobile_report/

Old phones. iPhone, Android -- these are the phones of the future. In three years, most people will probably have WebKit or Gecko running on their phone.

The iPhone is already the best selling phone in the US.

Re: Heysan (YC 07) - 100 million monthly page views and 600,000 users

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"Every single mobile web service should be looking at these guys to see how they are doing things. The site is also beautifully designed with a really clean UI. The proof that Heysan is onto something interesting is in the stats which are absolutely jaw dropping - and remind me of the kind of figures facebook used to pump out after they started which made everyone sit up and take notice. The average user spends over…

Take a look on these "markets": India 82.0% United States 8.4% United Kingdom 1.3% Germany 0.6% Indonesia 0.4% Obtained from Alexa.

You missed the other thread about Alexa. Alexa do not measure mobile traffic so Alexa numbers are very to irrelevant for any mobile services

Re: Heysan (YC 07) - 100 million monthly page views and 600,000 users

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how does quantcast get their data?

From panels/ISPs, -OR- You insert some js in your pages, and it's "quantified". They actually have some pretty cool stats, and exact numbers unlike alexa.

So, for quantified sites, audience composition is extrapolated from ISP data based on what? The Quantcast provided explanation (http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/info/Next+page4) is pretty light on concrete details of how it extrapolate demographic data from cookie info.

Would love to hear a straight forward answer for this one. My clients love the data available, but give it low validity because not clear how its derived.

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