Thread: Ireland Metrix publish data for Irish website

Just wondering what anyone thought of the data published by Ireland Metrix who are part of Blue Metrix. They've data for 27 Irish sites. They included Dublinbynumbers as part of their trial and we look like pretty small fish so far, still it is nice to be included. they gave us a free three month trial but they intend to charge 350 Euros a month for their services, which means we'd need to sell some advertising fast to keep it using it.

Here is the link:

Ireland Metrix : Internet Audience Measurement : Top IRISH Sites : Ireland's Internet Usage Habits

350!! euro a month for what? To gather numbers? What?

Good luck to them. As for the top people in there - Its good to see so many keep eircom.net as their homepage!

Originally Posted by andywozhere

Just wondering what anyone thought of the data published by Ireland Metrix who are part of Blue Metrix. They've data for 27 Irish sites. They included Dublinbynumbers as part of their trial and we look like pretty small fish so far, still it is nice to be included. they gave us a free three month trial but they intend to charge 350 Euros a month for their services, which means we'd need to sell some advertising fast to keep it using it.

These lusers want money for your data? Google Analytics is free and is a far better product.

Regards...jmcc

Do they give you the numbers of the bigger sites (mind you these are probably posted for free by them anyway )

if it was €35 per annum it would be too much.

Originally Posted by jmcc

These lusers want money for your data? Google Analytics is free and is a far better product.

Regards...jmcc

GA doesn't publish data

Originally Posted by blacknight

GA doesn't publish data

True. But that list of supposedly top Irish sites is far from complete.

Regards...jmcc

Originally Posted by jmcc

True. But that list of supposedly top Irish sites is far from complete.

Regards...jmcc

I know
I have quiet blogs that get more traffic than some of those sites!

Originally Posted by jmcc

True. But that list of supposedly top Irish sites is far from complete.

Regards...jmcc

To be fair to them they only launched yesterday and they only have data for 27 sites. I think they plan to have 200+. They are also the only people publishing data of Irish sites as far as I know (other than ABC for a small number).

They said they wanted to get a spectrum of Irish sites, so technically speaking I don't think it is 'top' Irish sites. However they are not going to get a wide spectrum if they charge 350 a month. I went to the launch yesterday and the room appeared to be mainly full of advertisers and ad agency representatives.

Originally Posted by andywozhere

To be fair to them they only launched yesterday and they only have data for 27 sites. I think they plan to have 200+. They are also the only people publishing data of Irish sites as far as I know (other than ABC for a small number).

They said they wanted to get a spectrum of Irish sites, so technically speaking I don't think it is 'top' Irish sites. However they are not going to get a wide spectrum if they charge 350 a month. I went to the launch yesterday and the room appeared to be mainly full of advertisers and ad agency representatives.

350 a month is ludicrous. Im sorry - but it is. Absolutely absurd to charge a company that much to do something that a company will do for free apart from the publishing results bit. And why is that even important?

I really can't believe this madness.

How are they going to get 200+ sites if they're charging that much?