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Alexa doesn't seem to be much help. Can someone else help me?

         

dogsnoop

7:47 pm on Mar 25, 2005 (gmt 0)



I have been using Alexa.com to compare my site statistics with others, but I noticed that their stats really don't mean much. If you look at my stats according to them, and look at my actual stats, they don't compare.

Reach per Million Users (explained by Alexa: "Reach is typically expressed as the percentage of all Internet users who visit a given site. So, for example, if a site like yahoo.com has a reach of 28%, this means that if you took random samples of one million Internet users, you would on average find that 280,000 of them visit yahoo.com").

My reach according to Alexa: 1 week average = 7.5, so I should have gotten 75,000 visits in the past week, or 7.5% of a million, right?

Wrong... I get between 30 and 60 visits per day, or 210 to 420 visitors in the last week.

Also, their traffic rank... I noticed that some sites ranked around 200,000 get a ton of visitors. Well, my Alexa.com traffic rank for the past 1 week is now at 198,508 (from 1,089,518 yesterday). I don't get it. I didn't get a windfall of visitors today.

Does anyone know of anything that lets you see the stats of "any" website like Alexa, but provide better results?

cgrantski

9:41 pm on Mar 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



For free? Never have seen decent stats for free. This is how companies like Comscore make their money, so it's pricey.

DerekH

10:25 pm on Mar 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Welcome to WebmasterWorld dogsnoop...

I have been using Alexa.com to compare my site statistics with others

Yes, but with every respect, that's a waste of time...

Compare your own statistics with yours for last month - that's ALL that matters - if it's better - good - if it's not - problem.

Make your stats become better each month and ignore Alexa - free fluff is worthless!

To rank well in Alexa, you have to have visitors who browse using Alexa above all other engines.

I don't need to say more!
DerekH

Wlauzon

5:51 am on Mar 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Alexa results for sites that rank under 25k or so are pretty useless. And they can be spammed.

We have one kind of orphan site that we use mostly for file storage, and I got it from rank of under 500k to over 90k just by installing Alexa and spam hitting the site many times a day for a couple weeks.