As you rightly pointed out early in your post, traffic is just one indicator. What websites should care about the most is bringing high engaging traffic to the site. Clicks means nothing, conversions and engagement mean so much more, especially true for B2B sites.

The real data you need to determine who has “traction” won’t be available online.

It’s a metric that isn’t talked about enough

Not “page views”, “uniques”, “users”

Not even “revenue”

What really matters are Profits and it’s so annoying to have people repeatedly fall into the myth that some how; one day these companies will turn eye balls into dollar signs. If only they can get enough people looking at them.

The fastest growing company was groupon, because it never had to become a company.

A company makes profits. It doesn’t survive on the ignorance or stupidity of investors.

These ponzi scheme always end poorly and it sucks being the last investor at the table

This is the kind of stuff that distracts from what matters…

Creating so much value for people that they are willing to take their hard earned pay check and sign over part of it to you.

I hope you take this perspective not as a personal attack but as a comment on the industry as whole

P.S., I love that you have themed music for your posts. I’ve recently tried to gain answers to questions about this (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15870188/what-api-allows-for-playing-purchasing-of-music at first, and then https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5511180 after.) and think it’s an awesome idea. Keep up the good work.

Just 2 cents from my end.

Anyways, great job with this & other similar posts.