VisitorVille Tracks Users From Thousands of Companies

When I heard about VisitorVille, I was a bit surprised. How could a company be gathering information on the surfing habits of so many people? Turns out the information comes from a meta-database that VisitorVille maintains that holds visitor records generated by the several thousand Web sites that contain VisitorVille code. You can view their stat service information at http://www.visitorville.com/ , but their intelligence information is at http://intelligence.visitorville.com .

VisitorVille has information on 200,000 companies, universities, and non-profit organizations around the world and how they use the Web. There's a directory of listed companies at http://intelligence.visitorville.com/page/A -- unfortunately I got a mysql error when I tried to use it.

Start by looking up a company -- I tried Amazon. (There's also a list of the most popular companies underneath the query box.) You'll see a list of stats available for that company, including average time per visit, top search engines used, whether or not cookies are enabled, etc. The stats without a little lock beside them are free. The stats *with* a little lock beside them require registration to the service, which is either $49.95 a month or $499 a year.

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