How does Alexa rankink works?

[Bambr]

I have a website that has around 1,000 visitors/day with 5000 page views per day and it is ranked 400K in Alexa.
I have another website that has only around 100 visitors a day and around 300 page views and it is already ranked in the top 100K (95k)
How is this possible?
thank you beforehand

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[chandan123]

second site visitors might have alexa tool bar so it went high in ranking

[Jectillplum]

yes if you download Alexa Toolbar on PC or some of user of sites whose visits your sites regularly and they download Alexa Toolbar on their pc so it's might be happen that your Alexa Ranked went up high for that site.

[~kev~]

The alexa spyware tool bar monitors where you go on the internet, and then reports your activities back to the alexa server. The spyware rankings are NOT accurate, at all.

[Bambr]

The alexa spyware tool bar monitors where you go on the internet, and then reports your activities back to the alexa server. The spyware rankings are NOT accurate, at all.
Why do people are so cocky about their Alexa rank then?
they always, hey advertise with us, we have an Alexa rank of 90K

[suganindia]

I have a website that has around 1,000 visitors/day with 5000 page views per day and it is ranked 400K in Alexa.
I have another website that has only around 100 visitors a day and around 300 page views and it is already ranked in the top 100K (95k)
How is this possible?
thank you beforehand

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alexa is crap from the start, it continues to be so with some minor changes

use the bloody toolbar they provide to increase your rankings which is of no use !

[Tim Gross]

So is there any value in it at all, any point to look at Alexa stats?

[AutoTerminal]

It always depends on the country origin of the visitors. if the traffics are coming from US more likely the estimate is near while if the traffics come from ASIA which use pirated software, the traffics are more likely inaccurate

[miles2go]

Even i have the same problem i had got only 20 vistor and 50 pageview my site rank was went upto 296000 i don't how does it possible. They are some problem in alexa algorithm they should rectify this

[Bambr]

Even i have the same problem i had got only 20 vistor and 50 pageview my site rank was went upto 296000 i don't how does it possible. They are some problem in alexa algorithm they should rectify this

Yeah agreed,
It is just total useless tool,
I have only 50 visitors with 200 page views and my ranking is now 70,000
I was like really.
I always wanted my site to be on top 100,000 but now I am like "it doesn't even mean anything"
I still don't understand why people brag about their alexa ranking... "hey, my site is ranked 50,000 on Alexa"
so what

[SEO2]

my site has 7,80,182 alexa rank. But it have only 10-12 unique visitors hardly a day.

[arslan2201]

i have heard that Alexa pulls off data from servers which have the data of the websites.

[zachatus]

i have heard that Alexa pulls off data from servers which have the data of the websites.


will further explain this one? thanks

[thinkfast]

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. The site with the highest combination of users and pageviews is ranked #1.

Alexa's traffic rankings are for top level domains only (e.g. domain.com). We do not provide separate rankings for subpages within a domain (e.g. http://www.domain.com/subpage.html) or subdomains (e.g. subdomain.domain.com) unless we are able to automatically identify them as personal home pages or blogs, like those hosted on Geocities and Tripod. If a site is identified as a personal home page or blog, its traffic ranking will have an asterisk (*) next to it: Personal Page Avg. Traffic Rank: 3,456*. Personal pages are ranked on the same scale as a regular domain, so a personal page ranked 3,456* is the 3,456th most popular page among Alexa users.

http://www.alexa.com/help/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=17&sid=0a023897aba8bc5559d5796b64640e9a

[Tauqeer]

The alexa redirect didn’t work ever. It was only a myth for those who were desperate to improve their ranking. The tool bar does work to some extend.

[ramysarwat]

i think alexa depend on its tool bar for collecting this informations

[smiles]

if your first site bouncing clicks more than second site.its one fact of not ranking in Alexa. and other one unique visitors also matter of them.

[Afqam]

Time is money, don't waist your time to increase your alexa rank