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[HollowOak]

Just found a site comparing site traffic. Here are some interesting statistics for a few P2P sites.

Unless that site's measuring mechanisms broke, Prosper suffered a dramatic downturn in visitors in or around September 2009. On the same scale, it seems our beloved .org is also experiencing a notable year-on-year decline in traffic.

Lendingclub, OTOH, is showing a remarkable increase in every metric.

[Urbi_et_Orbi]

It seems reasonable that there would be some relationship between traffic to Prosper and traffic to Org.

Looking at the Org site statistics, as provided by Org's on-site stats page, I am not seeing the 65% month-to-month drop (assuming it's comparing Jan 10 to Dec 09).

If the Org stats are off, the other stats may also be suspect - although the query does caution that the sample size for Org is significantly smaller.

[ira01]

The site does not seem to be accurate at all.  I checked my family's business site on it, and the data given was completely out of whack with reality.

[Fred93]

All these web statistics sites are hacks, but I think Alexa is much more likely to be meaningful.


http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/prosper.com#trafficstats

[brianguy]

yep, these are like the Zillow of internet data.  I've heard some people explain how far off they are and it can be pretty eye-opening.