Orlando city officials say that the data is somewhat skewed by the number of tourists who visit the state, which inflates traffic.
Asked about Zango's potential as a tool to inflate traffic numbers, he said that publishers and measurement companies need to work out the issue themselves.
Heavy.com, a site that tries to attract young men with its irreverent video clips and animation, is also a page popper, though the company says it has taken steps to avoid inflating traffic statistics or upsetting advertisers.
He added, though, that pop-ups could be a legitimate way to reach new viewers if the publisher took certain precautions, like not using pop-ups to inflate traffic or satisfy orders from advertisers.
Back to Orlando, the region found most dangerous in the country, local officials told New York Times reporter Lizette Alvarez in 2011 that "the data is [sic] somewhat skewed by the number of tourists who visit the state, which inflates traffic".
For many rich countries, especially the United States, the reverse is true.CALL-BACK One reason for the imbalance is call-back, which artificially inflates incoming traffic for countries with high telephone costs.
Heavy.com said its advertisers were never charged for pop-up pages and that the pop-ups did not inflate its traffic because it flagged those pages so that comScore could exclude them from its statistics.
Drivers can conserve fuel by driving the speed limit, smoothing out driving to anticipate traffic stops, avoiding traffic if possible, and getting tires properly inflated while they are cold, prior to hitting the road.
If most of the traffic isn't human (this study showed 61.5% of traffic is not), then those rates may be artificially inflated.
Golden city officials said that projected traffic numbers on the parkway extension have been inflated to make the project appear more financially viable.
