The Web, Statistics, More Statistics, and Still More Statistics

"Sink or Swim? The Top Moving Sites Of 2007"
Compete (January 17, 2008)

"At Compete we frequently write about monthly traffic volume and site popularity, but the focus is usually on the ten or twenty sites that enjoy monthly visitors in the tens (or even hundreds) of millions. While it’s important to investigate these sites, massively popular domains like Google or Yahoo typically don’t change much in terms of domain-level traffic or rank. Right behind these behemoths, however, a large number of websites battle for the finite resource of consumer attention and the shifting dynamics of this group will ultimately define the future of the web.

"With 2008 now more than two weeks old, it’s a great time to look back at last year and see how the web has changed...."

There's a list of top 20 and bottom 20 growing/shrinking websites from the top 1,000 in terms of traffic. Then, there's some analysis, and finally an offer to get more data - for a price.