[~mrniceguy~]

as i mention in the title, how alexa ranking work?
what is the meaning of the ranking?

[IFOR2005]

alexa ranking works on how many user that visited to your site with an alexa toolbar..
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[zenneth]

Basically, Alexa measures the amount of traffic going to your site by the number of visitors using the Alexa toolbar which is integrated to browsers. It is a ranking system that provides information on where your site stands and what it means is that the lower the number, the higher your site ranks in terms of traffic. I'm not sure exactly how the algorithm works but there has been some controversy surrounding this issue.

[jg_abad]

Alexa ranking generally working based on following things
- traffic comes to your site
- back links from highly ranked sites in alexa

[lifeplayer]

Alexa ranking is only collecting those visitor with alexa tool bar, if you do have mnay visitor do have install the alexa tool bar, then your alexa ranking will be high

[QuestBoomer]

Originally Posted by lifeplayer
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Alexa ranking is only collecting those visitor with alexa tool bar, if you do have mnay visitor do have install the alexa tool bar, then your alexa ranking will be high

Meaning that if those visitors without the toolbar will not be counted to the ranking?!

Then this isn't so accurate already, right?

[lifeplayer]

Originally Posted by QuestBoomer
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Meaning that if those visitors without the toolbar will not be counted to the ranking?!

Then this isn't so accurate already, right?

Yes, alexa are ignore those visitor without using the alexa toolbar. Anyway, alexa is still the best referance on traffic since no other better reference

[ravitejag]

Alexa toolbar is used to find out how many members are visiting a site and at the same time how frequesntly is the site being used by the members ...By gathering this data from a wide range of internet users the rank to the page is given...But mostly these ranks are based on local usage and demand rather than world wide...!

[~mrniceguy~]

i see, but even myself also not using alexa toolbar.
feel like alexa is not so accurate, but still have many people using alexa ranking as reference.

[zenneth]

That's the reason why there has been controversy surrounding the issue on how accurate their measurement is. Let's say, if site A is getting 100 visitors per day and 80% of them are using Alexa compared to site B which is getting 1000 visitors per day but only 5% are using Alexa, this means that the ranking of site A is much higher in Alexa measurement.

Although one may argue that this scenario is rather unlikely, it could still be possible if site A is a webmasters forum whereby the visitors all have strong webmasters related knowledge and knowing how to use Alexa toolbar.

Originally Posted by QuestBoomer
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Meaning that if those visitors without the toolbar will not be counted to the ranking?!

Then this isn't so accurate already, right?

[lifeplayer]

Originally Posted by ~mrniceguy~
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i see, but even myself also not using alexa toolbar.
feel like alexa is not so accurate, but still have many people using alexa ranking as reference.

Alexa ranking still the best reference on traffic compare to other, that's the reason many people still go for alexa ranking if they want to know the traffic of the website.

As i know only those work out on traffic will install the alexa tool and most of the general internet user do not install the alexa tool

[yoda]

installing toolbars is an irritating thing to most people as it interferes with the normal experience of browsing. Alexa is not really reflective or accurate in its stats due to its dependence on toolbars. But i think for blogs, izea is good. moreover the exact number of unique hits can be considered private to the site owners, else google analytics would have it out in the open.

[zenneth]

Yeah, you are right about being irritating. I did notice a slow down in browsing speed especially when displaying new web page with the toolbar installed.

Originally Posted by yoda
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installing toolbars is an irritating thing to most people as it interferes with the normal experience of browsing. Alexa is not really reflective or accurate in its stats due to its dependence on toolbars. But i think for blogs, izea is good. moreover the exact number of unique hits can be considered private to the site owners, else google analytics would have it out in the open.

[ravitejag]

I guess alexa is not a universal based ranking tool i guess ...Because it shows various ranks for the google pages with respect to its domain ... ".in" ".uk" and so on ...!

[Vastari]

Alexa serves websites geared towards web developers more. Think about it, the people more likely to download and use it would be people developing their own website, and they're going to be visiting sites targeting them. So personal sites can fall by the wayside.

Overall I don't think it's a very honest way of viewing how popular a website is, as it only counts views from people with the toolbar and not all viewers.

[marketraisecorp]

Alexa is tool which will show a statical graph.

Alexa ranking compare your website with other competitive website and show the ranking of website .

This will help you to know your website place in competition.


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