Rightmove - Unseasonal Downward Trend

[porca misèria]

That won't change these stats. because they are UNIQUE visits, so you will just be counted once per day regardless of page views.

You can't actually measure that. You can get trails for users with no privacy settings, but for the rest any talk of UNIQUE visits is ********.

A change in someone's network that affects the snake-oil could cause the measure of UNIQUE visits to rise or fall, even if there's no change in reality. An ISP would probably be marginal (though AOL changing its configuration has had some substantial effects in the past), but an infrastructure provider comparable to akamai could do it at a stroke.

[porca misèria]

I may be wrong, but didn't Rightmove put their fees up, which means fewer agents are using them?

Could the househunters therefore be moving to another site, eg Home.co.uk?

I don't believe any of the agents has abandoned rightmove. That would pretty-much have to be a coordinated effort.

But Zoopla is now a capable rival, and is now also a must-have for agents. So if one big agent were to drop rightmove and others were to follow, they have somewhere to go. That should put a brake on RM's price rises.

[The Eye Of Sauron]

I don't believe any of the agents has abandoned rightmove. That would pretty-much have to be a coordinated effort.

But Zoopla is now a capable rival, and is now also a must-have for agents. So if one big agent were to drop rightmove and others were to follow, they have somewhere to go. That should put a brake on RM's price rises.

Could it be that people aren't clicking on agents' own homepages, but merely on Rightzoopla's spin off pages?

[porca misèria]

Could it be that people aren't clicking on agents' own homepages, but merely on Rightzoopla's spin off pages?

I'd presume almost all web traffic goes to the portals, not the individual agents.

But I don't think that's actually the point in this thread.