Comments on: Alexa is Becoming Completely Worthless

By: Fruit

Fruit — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:38:31 +0000

Hi, everybody.

Can anybody of you, professionals, tell me exactly how Alexa calculates the TOTAL number of Internet users?

Any kind of official info? or some trustworthy description of their algorithm?

Do they rely only on their Toolbar? Or count any other stat sources?

Thanks a lot in advance!

By: getrising.com

getrising.com — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:26:40 +0000

As mentioned on their site i.e.
“Alexa’s traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users and data collected from other, diverse sources over a rolling 3 month period.
A site’s ranking is based on a combined measure of reach and pageviews.
Reach is determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site on a given day.
Pageviews are the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site.
However, multiple requests for the same URL on the same day by the same user are counted as a single pageview”.

I don’t think there is any rocket science. If someone wants to boost his alexa rank, he must increase his technology oriented visitors base like webmasters, technology geeks etc. Because these are the people who certainly have the alexa toolbar installed….

By: Ange Gothi

Ange Gothi — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:38:11 +0000

Alexa do see many factors

I guess !!!

Even my Google Analytic’s & Alexa Traffic don’t match anymore

By: Source Blogger

Source Blogger — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:58:34 +0000

For something perceived to be so worthless, there sure is a lot of heated discussion about Alexa Rank.

Do we need a refresher course on how Alexa Rank data is calculated?

Are you losing money when your site’s Alexa Rank declines for a week or two?

Let’s return our focus back to content and not obsess over stats and analytics.

Source Blogger

By: estherrosieuk

estherrosieuk — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:49:01 +0000

My 7 day Alexa ranking has just gone from 325,000 to over 5 million and my traffic is steadily the same.

I work on this website for a client who DOES take notice of alexa.

Not good when it comes to a weekly report.

Any ideas.