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Old 03-08-2015, 09:14 PM  
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You clearly don't understand that firstly most sites keep their own traffic numbers secret, secondly that Alexa, Compete and services like them use figures based on sampling and the more traffic a site gets, the less accurate such samples are because a small skew in the sampled data can translate to a enormous skew in the interpolated result.
But if real traffic increase, doesn't sample size also increase then? In statistics, its more accurate the bigger sample. Only quality of the sample can change this.
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