Alexa Box Good Thing to Have on the Homepage

Hi,
I have seen some directories with the Alexa box, so I installed one at my Ask Directory, do you think it’s a good thing to have on the homepage?
The design of the box is not very sexy in my opinion.
Cheers

 

Not sure if it's a good thing to have on your directory or not. I do agree that it is not very sexy. Is there a smaller option to let users know about your Alexa Ranking?

 

The problem is - it slows loading time down a great deal - it is a pox on your home page.

 

The other option is half the size but on my design I think this one blends best, I must search for a really small one if available.
By the way you are very sexy on that picture

 

Hey, thanks. You don't think my butt is too big, do you?

 

Negatory

reasons:
1. major slowdowns
2. unattractiveness
3. reminds me of link farms

 

Maybe try the smaller button that I see many use:

 

I have to agree with you in all points; I must find a better way to display Alexa.

 

Definitely not recommended for circa 2006 sites, they had there day years ago and they have not moved forward progessively and have wild inaccuracies in data

Not appropriate for new protocols of data transfer and monitoring if you cannot provide AJAX or similar real time data then don't put it on your site

imho

 

I removed the Alexa box, just to big to ugly to slow… and all people that are interested in Alexa have it already installed so it’s useless.

 

Just so you know I am working on a script for acquiring the Alexa Rank (e.g. 10,111,888) info, but it's being a real pain in the a$$ for me at the moment.

Of course it'll be integrated into phpLD and most importantly it'll look clean.
It's on dump, but i'm returning a zero value atm)

Rob

 

It looks dumb IMO. Those who care about Alexa enough to deface their directory are likely using one of those booster applications to game the numbers anyway. It offers no value to the site's visitors IMO.

 

No need to deface. I finished up the script.

http://www.directorydump.com/fetchalexa.php

try it

 

You do good work Rob.

 

Thanks man. unfortunately it took me 3hrs to complete the task. Sooooo frustrating. I was helping others while working too, which I don't mind, but it does slow down the train of thought

 

Ok, I have it functional on 1 section of Directory Dump

 

Really a good thing to have this Alexa mod, thanks an0n will it be available for download?
In the end I think everyone that is interested in Alexa already as the Alexa toolbar installed, but always good to have.

Your Halloween skin on directorydump looks kind of …… scary

 

OMG it's blinking
Nice mod

 

If there is one toolbar I refuse religiously to NOT install, it's that alexa crap.
However, I see the trival importance quite a few people tend to put into it.

I just wanted to experiement, and it actually cost me more time that anticipated *ugh*

But anywho, eventually when I have my own site up and running (good one) I'll have all of my MODs readily available to download via a fee, because we all know time is money.

Rob

 

Yo anon, is there a place that I can get that "live stats" box, or is it proprietarily yours?

Your layout is nice.