DISQUS

the MARTINI SHAKER: Why are we still using Alexa Rankings?

  • seth · 2 years ago
    I use Alexa purely for an idea of what a popular site might be generating traffic-wise.

    Nice job on the CSS Mania post!
  • Jeremy Fuksa: Creative Genera · 2 years ago
    But even then, surely you have to agree that you take that information with a grain of salt... that is to say that you would assume that the actual traffic would potentially be far greater than what it's measuring.

    I think that Alexa would be far more successful if they went with a Javascript include so that the responsibility falls on site owners instead of asking their visitors to install some toolbar that most people would associate with spyware in the first place.