1- "Webalizer" generates statistics that do not differentiate between human visitors and robots. As a result all reported metrics are much higher than those due to people alone. Read by going to:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webalizer#Criticism.

2- The creators of "Webalizer”  state clearly their program drawbacks and write that “Their products are not designed to publicly report a site in comparison to others”.

For a full explanation of website traffic, read: “What Some website Owners Don’t Want You to Know” at: http://www.cyrilhuzeblog.com/2008/02/11/website-traffic-what-some-motorcycle-website-owners-dont-want-you-to-know/

Since "Beach" and "Train" have been advised at least by me (email 01/30/07) and are already perfectly aware that these statistics are of no value from the point of view of advertisers and of readers, their statements have for objective to mislead people.( "Beach" states that "Train" is an IT expert). These people refuse to let me comment in their website. It says a lot. 

In addition, the 2 same individuals posted:

On Saturday March 29 at 8.22 PM:

"We DON’T fabricate numbers. We are truthful to the best of our knowledge. You can see (no source mentioned) that our numbers (number of what?) are over 17,000 for march 08. with the month not yet over. We projected about a week ago that the hits (what is the definition of a hit?) should approach 20,000 for the month. We will see how close that estimate was at month end.

On Sunday March 30 at 8.53 AM, they posted again:

Publishing Webalizer Data showing no more 17,000 or 20,000 visitors (hits?) for March 08 as stated the evening before, but a whopping 85,212 visitors. Conclusion: Miraculously, in less than 12 hours, their data went from 17,000 for the month to 85,212 visitors!!! So, while they were sleeping, 68,212 new visitors arrived!!! (85,212 - 17,000). More new visitors (hits?) than what they pretend to get in 4 months!!! Very credible.

Now they have a change of mind. 17,000 is the number of hits on the banners. What means "hits". Viewed? (How do they know the banners were viewed 17,000 times? So, 68,212 would not have seen anything? Why?). Or does it mean "clicks" (How do they know how many clicks on the banners?). Any tangible proof to all these statements? None to this day.

“Jeff. You are absolutely right”.
Cyril, I appreciate your response and had no doubt you would understand my input. With internet traffic being such a complex platform, it is very easy for a company trying to attract advertiser to mislead them. The majority of people have no clue and take their word. I for one pride myself in being truthful with my numbers and with hard work know there will be an eventual pay off.
Your posting of this blog will help educate people and make them aware.

C-

Bikerdata.com has a traffic rank of: 993,079
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/bikerdata.com

Cyril:

By far you offer a great product, I actually catch myself wondering where the daily blog from you is if I have not gotten it by 7:30 am each day. I enjoy reading the info and comments, keep up the great work.

In regards to Alexa, you are so on target about miss representation of the numbers. I pulled my current rating as an FYI. (POSTED AT THE TOP OF THIS COMMENT) On of my pet pev’s is when someone states they receive one million HITS a day. Hits mean nothing, when a single page loads such as a home page that within its self could generate 45 to 100 hits based on the content of the home page. The key number that most website owns should be quoting is UNIGUE visitors per day and then how long did the stayed there and how many pages where viewed during that particular visit. That is value to an advertiser.

I base my sites value on the “call to action and click thru” that the motorcycle enthusiast take when they receive my VTwin E-News newsletter that goes out to a registered database of over 40,000 monthly subscribers. Instead of generating traffic to my site, I reach out to the motorcycle enthusiast through my Emailed VTwin E-NEWS monthly newsletter. Once the newsletter is received, I can actually see the amount of people that read the content, click the advertiser link to their site, and post a report to that advertiser.

Thanks!