Does this mean compared to or via, or both? I had previously thought it meant via, until coming onto LingQ to see it, and now it tells me it’s ‘compared to’, but from context I thought it’s sometimes ‘via’?

Does this mean compared to or via, or both? I had previously thought it meant via, until coming onto LingQ to see it, and now it tells me it’s ‘compared to’, but from context I thought it’s sometimes ‘via’?