FAQ

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Frequently asked question of itsdEx!

1. What is this site?

itsdEx is the instant web stats site and fun game. You can get stats and an instant valuation on any domain, so try finding out how much Yahoo.com is worth. Then try a smaller, growing site (Mahalo.com)that you like on the front page of itsdEx. Enter their domain into that big box in the middle of the page. The next tournament is in September, when players try to turn their skills in predicting the next hottest websites into big returns. You start with $1000 in play money and try to end up with more than anyone else. Previous winners have been from Canada and Australia, so try to beat them and the rest of the world in fun competition.

2. What are instant web stats?

You may not know this, but tons of companies are working on providing stats on site viewership. This is important for things like advertisers, website owners, market analysts and bloggers. itsdEx is a web 2.0 approach, to mashup all of these stats all over the web into one fun place. So when you get a quote, itsdEx is hustling all over the place to grab these stats. Then we have built a magic valuation formula that tells you what that domain/website is worth in real time. Pretty neat.

3. How does itsdEx put a dollar value on a website so dang fast?

The power of big iron servers doing something that a human with an abacus would burn their fingers off with.

4. How does the game work?

Buy low, sell high, beat the competition. Research winning climbers on places like TechCruch, PopURLS, Slashdot, BoingBoing, del.icio.us and Go2Web2.net.

5. Do I have to play the game to get instant stats?

Nope. Use us if you’d like, we’re not shy. Just get stats on the first or any other page. Get your satisfaction and get back to your day. The game gets real social and the point of the game is it makes those numbers more meaningful and fun.

6. What is Alexa?

Alexa is a web stats mega company, the grandfather of the instant web stats industry. They gather stats from an estimated 10 million plus toolbars users and extrapolate that into usually daily updates of things like Reach per million, average number of page views and overall ranking of a site.

7. What is Compete?

Compete competes with Alexa, judging from the ads they have on TechCrunch. Compete uses their toolbar, a panel of demographically sampled users, and ISP traffic to get accurate snapshots of a sites performance. Pundits claim that for higher traffic bigger sites that they like Compete stats better. You decide!

8. What is Google?

It’s the mothership of search and keyword advertising. PageRank is a cool ranking system that Yahoo! and MSN should have in place, that essentially gives you a score card grade. Anything above 3 is respectable, 5 is lofty, 6 is maniacal, 7 and above are mints. The money kind, not the cool refreshing candy.

9. What is Yahoo!?

The number 2 search engine, Yahoo! has more registered users and site visitors than Google but Google out traffics them. Yahoo needs to wake up and smell the AdSense and start offering publishers something fun that combines MyBlogLog, ads and prepays. Anyway, the best metric for Yahoo! is backlinks, so that’s the instant stats you’ll find on itsdEx.

10. Why are you guys so obsessed with instant web stats and games? Don’t you have a real life?

We’re full time geeks. Stats are much more fun when they are in a game, and when it becomes a big popularity game. If and when we venture outside, we’ll don some dark sun glasses, squint in the shadows and spread the itsdEx word to as many disciples as we can. Like stats? itsdEx.