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Why are we still using Alexa Rankings?

Started by 3rdmartini · 10 months ago

I went to text-link-ads.com to add Hide This Thing to my available inventory of site space, and it would not accept the site because its Alexa Ranking was not high enough. This got me to thinking “why is anyone still using Alexa Ranking as a proper metric for anything?”% ... Continue reading »

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

    Nice job on the CSS Mania post!
  • 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.

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