Quantcast

infobox Website
name = Quantcast


caption = Screen-shot of Quantcast's front page.
url = http://www.quantcast.com
type of organization = Nonprofit
location = San Francisco, California
type = Web traffic and Web ranking
language = English
registration = Optional
owner = Quantcast Corporation
author = Quantcast Corporation

Quantcast is a Web site that is based on viewing the statistics of other Web sites. Quantcast Corporation's prime focus is to analyze the Internet's Web sites in order to obtain accurate statistics. Like Alexa, Quantcast rates Web pages by ranks. However, Quantcast does not require a tool bar to be installed upon one's browser to obtain statistics. Instead participating websites voluntarily insert Quantcast HTML code inside Web pages they wish to have included in statistics. This code allows Quantcast to keep track of the traffic directed towards those Web sites. [ [http://www.quantcast.com/faq.jsp Quantcast - Frequently Asked Questions ] ] Using this mechanism Quantcast can provide thorough details about Web pages created by participating publishers. Some of this information includes, for example, whether the Web page viewer is a male or female, whether the average viewer makes $30,000 USD annually or $100,000 USD annually, the age group of the viewer and the amount of U.S. homes the Web site reaches. This information is provided by inference: comparing and correlating the information received from one participating publisher with another. The inferences are possible because the Quantcast code causes the user's browser to access Quantcast's servers, at which time they can log the user's IP address and information Quantcast places in cookies that are stored in the user's browser. The cookies significantly aid in making inferences. Quantcast also provides affinities revealing other popular sites that the average viewer browses. This is possible by tracking "referrer" information that is normally included as part of every HTTP request made by the user's browser. For instance a person browsing a page on Quantcast aimed towards music might also browse sites based on music downloads. [cite web|accessdate=2008-03-03|url=http://www.quantcast.com/faq.jsp|title=Frequently Asked Questions |publisher=Quantcast ] [cite web|accessdate=2008-03-03|url=http://www.killerstartups.com/Site-Reviews/quantcast--Internet-Ratings/|title=www.Quantcast.com - Internet Ratings |publisher=Killer Startups ]

References

* [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/quantcast.com quantcast.com] at Alexa.com