Another enhancement to online website metrics from Compete presents an Attention Rank, rating the consumer attention paid to a given domain.
It's probably instructive to consider what by Compete, Attention Rank became part of what they report for a website.
As an example of the potential for existing metrics to miss out on a website and its value, Compete cited the site for online adventure game
The top six sites by page view rank were similarly ranked by attention. MySpace led the way, followed respectively by Yahoo, eBay, MSN, Google, and AOL. EA-owned Pogo.com, an online game site, merited 7th place in attention despits being 152nd in unique visitors and 10th in page views. "Where we spend our time is where we find the most value," Mahony wrote. Other new features announced by Compete today include daily data, embeddable graphs, and popularity by visits. A new feature called Velocity allows visitors to compare the relative growth of one site to another, in terms of visitor attention.
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