The other day I posted about the claim of blogger Michael Arrington of Crunchnotes that we at JupiterWeb (comprised of the networks internet.com, earthweb.com, devx.com and graphics.com) were being effected by the growth of tech oriented blogs. I questioned Arrington about his metrics and wanted to compare them to JupiterWeb. Nothing came in from Arrington.

Another blog has done this work. A recent post provides some good details. You can read it but the analysis shows that Crunchnotes is doing fine, but to paraphrase the late Lloyd Bentsen's remarks in his Vice Presidential debate against Dan Quayle in 1998: "Crunchnotes is no Jupiterweb."

In fact Crunchnotes has 3.4 million page views per month - JupiterWeb has 240 million.

Crossnotes also points out that reliance on Alexa rankings (one has to presume that Crunchnotes relies on such rankings) to compare sites is not wise (about 1 in 5000 Net users have downloaded Alexa).

By the way, do check out the Crisscross.com Web site (a companion to the Crossnotes blog. This is put together by an American living in Japan.