Sitebrain tells me I have 2,462 visits a day, where my stat says 120 per day. As flattering as it might seem, I prefer to belief my own stat calculation rather than sitebrain’s.

The likely reason why I get higher hits at sitebrain (even than Unspun’s) is because I have higher Alexa ranking.

That can’t be right! LOL.

And the minute I typed my URL it took less than a second to come up with the numbers, I wonder how the site does it.

They are anyway more subjective methods, as long there isn’t any transparency or even a voting process on how the factors should factor in the mix. Otherwise you could always tailor-made those benchmarks according to your current need. For instance, measuring Bloglines (does somebody still use that?) subscribers instead of RSS, or giving overly weight to PageRank or Delicious.

So Patung has to be given credit, that he took up the work to compare all those Indonesia-centric sites regularly and that he put this benchmark initially up. Which brought his own site more traffic and reputation also. Nobody else did that so far, so no need for us to question his methods.

As well, websites come and go. My site nomad4ever.com was just removed from the index, as I moved on to Goa/India, so I’m not based in Indonesia anymore. Another subjective criteria, but I won’t complain or design another benchmark site.

It all depends on what you want to achieve with your site anyway. Your content matters!

Patung’s criteria are not solely based on one source, but include rankings for links in and out, plus blogroll entries, which may account for my high ranking.

BTW. Thanks for the mention; it’s always nice to get a circulation boost.

uh well, never mind, i was just saying i’ve posted on my blog. as if anybody really gives a shit.

http://treeatwork.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-indonesiamatters-blog-rank-and.html

thanks