FOT (Forex On Top) use metrics provided by Compete.com to estimate the rankings of forex websites.

How are Compete metrics different compared to Alexa, comScore, Hitwise, Nielsen//NetRatings?

Compete estimates site traffic and engagement metrics based on the daily browsing activity of over 2,000,000 U.S. Internet users. Compete applies a rigorous normalization methodology, leveraging scientific multi-dimensional scaling (by age, income, gender and geography) to ensure metrics are representative of the U.S. Internet population. Compete members are recruited through multiple sources, including ISPs, the Compete Toolbar and additional opt-in panels to ensure a diverse distribution of user types and to facilitate de-biasing across the data sources.

How does Compete estimate site traffic and Internet rank?

Compete has developed a unique methodology created by experts in the fields of mathematics, statistics and the data sciences to aggregate, transform, enhance and normalize data in order to estimate U.S. Internet traffic.

Based on the daily web usage of more than two million members (and growing!) of the Compete community, Compete calculates and estimates total traffic and rank for nearly every site on the web. We use rigorous statistics to make sure our estimates balance demographic and connection factors that match the entire U.S. Internet population. Currently, we're calculating the number of people in the U.S. that visit any given Web site each month (international usage calculations are in development).

Compete online metrics are leveraged by some of the largest companies in the U.S. and often cited in publications like USA Today, Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

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