2007-05-15: ver 1.19 - Compete.com added! Compete ranking for the current domain now appears in a new bar alongside PageRank and Alexa Rank, with estimated visitors in the menu (can be disabled if not desired). Alexa queries improved to ensure inclusion into Alexa's toolbar users panel.

Search Status FireFox Plugin Now Shows Compete

Published May 18th, 2007 in Internet.
Search Status, a FireFox plugin, has just integrated Compete.com metrics.
Search Status lets you view the Google PageRank and Alexa Traffic Rank for any given site you are visiting in FireFox. Any visits you make to a site with the plugin enabled will record it in Alexa’s ranking system and give a site that extra boost in the Alexa graph. Think of it as an alternative to Alexa’s toolbar for IE.
Now with the latest release they have added Compete.com’s ranking. I hope that with this inclusion people will stop relying so heavily on Alexa’s traffic stats and start looking at more traffic analytic services. I admit that most of them are known to have skewed results and do not show a true metric of traffic. But until we have a better solution I guess we have no choice but to rely on them.
Advertisers rarely ask for personal traffic graphs and even if we provide them, they don’t seem to believe it.