Is Alexa traffic report based on site traffic only?

[netprophet]

Is Alexa traffic report based on site traffic? I'm not sure that its ranking is only based on traffic. If anybody has any idea about alexa traffic rank then plz shares your views. :confused:

[mad4]

The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for all sites on the Web on a daily basis. The main Alexa traffic rank is based on the geometric mean of these two quantities averaged over time (so that the rank of a site reflects both the number of users who visit that site as well as the number of pages on the site viewed by those users). The three-month change is determined by comparing the site's current rank with its rank from three months ago. For example, on July 1, the three-month change would show the difference between the rank based on traffic during the first quarter of the year and the rank based on traffic during the second quarter.

http://www.alexa.com/site/help/traffic_learn_more

[Allen.H]

Which means, Alexa only counts IE surfers, and more - the people who have the Alexa toolbar = Biased.


Allen.H

[netprophet]

Which means, Alexa only counts IE surfers, and more - the people who have the Alexa toolbar = Biased.


Allen.H

and for firefox, netscape ,opera, sea monkey....

[sarathy]

Which means, Alexa only counts IE surfers, and more - the people who have the Alexa toolbar = Biased.


Allen.H

You are right,
Google toolbar does not allow me to search in yahoo
Yahoo toolbar does not allow me to search in google.,
Suckers, they are biased

[Freewebspace]

You are right,
Google toolbar does not allow me to search in yahoo
Yahoo toolbar does not allow me to search in google.,
Suckers, they are biased


I cannot understand your argument

how google can allow you to search in Yahoo?

[sarathy]

Actually you can, You need to download the gohoo Plugin.,
















just kidding.,

[mahmood]

One of my sites gets 1000 vistors a day at most, Alexa have 2000K for some days:eek:

[Volconvo]

Alexa users are most definitely more tech-savvy than average. I bet half of the users are web developers, themselves, checking Alexa ranks everywhere else on the net. Definitely not something reliable.