Is the alexa data corract?

Discussion in 'Products & Tools' started by dongbotang, Apr 22, 2009.

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    alexa data shows that 36.0% visitors are from India, 17.1% from US. And others takes 46.9%. But in google analytics it shows 90% visitors are come from US. Why this thusness? :confused:
     
    dongbotang, Apr 22, 2009 IP
  2. Vekseid

    Vekseid Peon

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    I just made a new site, I'm the only person in the world aware of its existence. Because I'm doing a lot of updating to it and such, it is apparently now the ~400,000th most popular website in the world.

    Was funnier a few years back when Alexa claimed that 90% of my forum members came from Australia. I knew from my own server logs that ~70% came from the US...

    Alexa simply can't be trusted below ~250k period. And then all that range tells you is "This site is big enough that it's highly probable that more than one webmaster type makes use of it." Compete is a superior solution, though I wish it tracked by day instead of month.
     
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  3. GMBRDILOS

    GMBRDILOS Well-Known Member

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    I do not believe in Alexa. Maybe they updates later or not correctly I cantn say exactly but in fact they are wrong.Analytics is better but the host server is the exact.
     
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    Samker Well-Known Member

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    Alexa "receive" data "only" from Alexa Toolbars, since they aren't distributed very well we have this diferences... Don't lose to much time on Alexa ranking. ;)
     
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    Seems normal to me.
     
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    then how come been indexed into alexa, just curious...
     
    thesamemanhal, Apr 23, 2009 IP
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    Alexa only counts visits to your site by users of the Alexa Toolbar. In my research a great percentage of installed Alexa Toolbar Users come from India and non-usa users.
     
    SCLocal, Apr 23, 2009 IP
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    Alexa shows my site has 1/3 users in Iran and 1/4 in Algeria :D
    In GA, about 90%+ is US :)
     
    thuankkk, Apr 25, 2009 IP
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    Alexa is highly inaccurate.
    It is absolutely worthless if your rank is more than 100,000.
    Pretty much junk if your rank is 10,000 - 100,000.
    Just inaccurate if your rank is 1,000 - 10,000.
    And not bad if your rank is 1,000 or less.

    The reason is purely mathematical: very few % of the web users have their stupid toolbar.
     
    ChaosTrivia, Apr 25, 2009 IP