Comments on: Why You Should Completely Ignore Alexa Stats

By: Prafuldass

Prafuldass — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:51:01 +0000

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By: Quarkbase: Almost Everything About a Website - PlagiarismToday

Quarkbase: Almost Everything About a Website - PlagiarismToday — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:13:40 +0000

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By: Envirogle

Envirogle — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:49:32 +0000

Alexa is not a great provider in website traffic statistics, because it only gets its statistics from users with the alexa toolbar, that is true, but still heaps of webmasters check it out before purchasing any site, it is reassuring to them.

By: Amin TLICH

Amin TLICH — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:39:04 +0000

Hello,
Just wanted to add an information. The official addon for Alexa on Firefox is called Sparky
I don’t fully rely on Alexa rankings, but nobody can deny it reflects in some way a website’s popularity. It is not the global ranking that interests me, it is by country ranking.
Regards

By: bwl zwei null » Zoomer kommt (wenn man Alexa trauen darf)

bwl zwei null » Zoomer kommt (wenn man Alexa trauen darf) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:01:20 +0000

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Who Drinks More Kool-Aid? SEO Experts or the People that Hire them? — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:53:09 +0000

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By: Alexa - traffic ranking | Jason Slater Weblog

Alexa - traffic ranking | Jason Slater Weblog — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:26:08 +0000

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By: What happened to the good bloggers? (Internet traffic) - Personal Development for Smart People Forums

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:53:43 +0000

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By: Sneezy Melon

Sneezy Melon — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:47:58 +0000

I completely agree with you here. Alexa ratings are generally unreliable.

By: -Paul

-Paul — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:52:00 +0000

Agreed, but I still get annoyed with it regardless of how useless its results are to me.

By: Michael Woo

Michael Woo — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:03:29 +0000

Yeah I totally agree with you .. sometime I just don’t understand why with more traffic it goes down.. I don’t think it’s accurate but some advertisers still use it to judge whether your blog has good enough exposure or not using alexa..

By: BlogRodent

BlogRodent — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:41:02 +0000

Blog Stats: Get your info-jones on with weblog traffic metrics…

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By: BlogRodent

BlogRodent — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:41:02 +0000

Blog Stats: Get your info-jones on with weblog traffic metrics…

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By: constructicle boy

constructicle boy — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:35:11 +0000

well,in a way,alexa is one of the better way to judge the billions of websites out there.so alexa is still the preferred ranking system for me

By: Rob O.

Rob O. — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:31:11 +0000

I’m kinda late to this discussion, but I’ve about decided that Alexa ranking is a bit like those cheesy late-night infomercials that hawk those “available for a limited time” Nascar plates (with the 24-karat gold rim, of course) in that what makes those “collectable” is that someone declared them to be so.

In other words, Alexa rank (along with Google PageRank, IMO) is a self-propagating – almost viral – hoax. Alexa-originated hits are mostly important because, well, Alexa says they are. And since so many other bloggers have bought into the it, well, it must be true.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:15:48 +0000

@geoff – What does Alexa consider a unique visitor?

By: geoff

geoff — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:26:50 +0000

You appeared to have ignored the last sentence by Kyle:

…If I changed my assumption of a visitor to a unique IP per 10 hours, I
could more than double my traffic. Think about it…

What was your assumption when you counted your visitors? What was John Chow’s? It is 99% likely that you two are using very different methods to count your users. If you had used the exact same method to count your pageviews and visitors his traffic might actually be a lot higher than yours, as reported by Alexa, and in fact, I’d bet it is. Your critique of Alexa is based on a HUGE assumption and is probably bogus.

By: The Chitika Blog » Blog Archive » Are Alexa Stats Messed Up?

The Chitika Blog » Blog Archive » Are Alexa Stats Messed Up? — Tue, 22 May 2007 15:33:59 +0000

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By: Wink Traffic Growth » TechAddress

Wink Traffic Growth » TechAddress — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:25:03 +0000

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By: Free Website Traffic

Free Website Traffic — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:31:44 +0000

As I mentioned in my blog, Alexa is NOT completely worthless. Even steaming piles of turd can be utilized as fertilizer :) It has value if you are going to SELL your site or sell advertising. Sure, refering to Alexa stats is like a Penis Enlargement site referring to dubious anatomic measurements. The bottomline is people give it credence so…. there’s definitely sales and marketing mileage off Alexa. Does it yield helpful info to grow your site? No. Does it increase site sales and advertising prices? Yes.

By: The Failure of Alexa Rank at Timothy’s Burden

The Failure of Alexa Rank at Timothy’s Burden — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:16:49 +0000

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By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:42:39 +0000

Alexa is not just for IE. I have the SearchStatus extension installed for a few weeks. I just found out that I also contribute to Alexa’s user base.

However, either Alexa or SearchStatus is not working properly, in my opinion. I am developing/running a relatively low-traffic site (Alexa: 657,000, Quantcast: 2,030,000). I check the stat of the site through out the day (via the admin site in the same domain). I am currently living outside US. From Google Analytics and Quantcast scripts, I know that most of the traffic are NOT from the country where I am in. But Alexa currently shows that most of the traffic to my site IS from the country that I am!

I am not sure if the culprit is the SearchStatus or Alexa. Since then I have removed SearchStatus extension and block the cookies from Alexa (not sure if it does anything).

What do you guys think?

By: Brian Heys

Brian Heys — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:36:44 +0000

I haven’t used Alexa for a long time. I remember trying to use it about four years ago for research purposes, but I always used to wonder about the reliability of the figures even then.

By: WebConnoisseur » Blog Archive » Please Stop Quoting Alexa Data

WebConnoisseur » Blog Archive » Please Stop Quoting Alexa Data — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:31:44 +0000

[...] not the first to prove Alexa data is flawed. Here are links to other Alexa skeptics: Peter Norvig, Paul Stamatiou, Josh Pigford, Matt Cutts, Rand Fishkin (thanks for the data!), Greg Linden, Bruce Stewart, Alex [...]

By: Wink Blog » Blog Archive » Wink Traffic Growth

Wink Blog » Blog Archive » Wink Traffic Growth — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:07:06 +0000

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