Compete.com: How does your site measure up?

Ever wonder how well your site compares to another? Ladies and Gents I give you Compete.com! Ok, so I’m going a little over the top, but only because I think Compete.com is a really cool (and best of all, FREE) web application.

What’s it do?

Compete allows you to get site statistics on any Website, (this parts the kicker) even if it’s NOT YOUR OWN. Although the statistics you can see on any website are limited in the free version, I still think the information you can get is pretty powerful:

• The number of unique visitors for the last year available in 3 month view, 6 month view, and 1 year view
• All the sites you looked up nicely displayed on the same graph
• The percent monthly and yearly change in unique visitors for each site
• The ability to download the data in CSV format so you can run your own analysis
• The top search terms for each site
• The top referral sites
• The top sites visited from this site
• And then you can embed these cool graphs anywhere! Check it out:

Is that not cool?

How to Use it

My favorite part of Compete.com is how EASY it is to use. Anyone who knows how to get on the internet can figure this out. Here are the “complicated” steps to use it:

1. Go to Compete.com
2. Enter the web addresses you want to compare metrics for.
3. Click Compare

That’s it! No really, that’s all. Pretty quick and dirty, huh? But effective. The possibilities for this are endless…

There are also plenty of other services that do this (both free and paid). Which one are you using? Are you using one at all? Let me know in the comments.