As a web guy, I spend quite a bit of time surfing the tubes. Today I found this interesting bit over at compete.com:

According to their website, compete.com “triangulates multiple data sources, including ISP, Panel & Toolbar to estimate U.S. traffic.” Basically, they follow network traffic to provide usage reports.

The “Visits” chart above shows a steady climb in Baynote’s traffic over the past year — a 2290% increase, while other recommendation vendors’ traffic has remained static or even dipped. (Note: this isn’t the main baynote.com website, but rather the data we deliver to our customers’ sites. Our product model is SaaS, so each search result or recommendation gets tallied in this chart.)

This steady climb can be attributed to the increase in Baynote’s customer-base. Even though the global economy continues to melt, businesses are finding that the conversion increase and revenue life Baynote provides is still justified in their budget.