Alexa is WRONG!!!

I thought that Title might catch your attention...

I use AWStats and Google Analytics website statistics.

My main directory thegreatdirectory.org (alexa rank ~200000) received 5200 unique visitors last month and another one of my sites (alexa rank ~530000) got 9000 unique visitors.

So a site with almost double the amount of visitors has an alexa traffic rank 330000 less, make sense? Nope, it doesn't!

Anyone seen similar things?

 

That's quite interesting really. I always thought Alexa was a touch "behind".

 

How does this relate to what the topic is???

 

You are right - Alexa is wrong.

 

Weird... alexa is usually never wrong

 

alexa is usually wrong! I never trust their ranking.

 

Alexa calculate the traffic rank from the users who are using their toolbar. That means the sites view by the users who don't have alexa toolbar installed will be excluded from their rank.

Kailash

 

To a certain extent you are right but recently they changed it so that they get their traffic source information from "other sources" as well, which they didn't mention what they were but hey it's obviously not working for 'em!

 

ye of course there are niches and groups where you cant know for example hiphop addicts that hate toolbars and cant get reached by other alexa sources. its just statistics...

 

lol, that is true though...

 

I thought everyone knew Alexa was useless already?

 

It's easy to change Alexa's result. that the reason alexa it not belivable

 

alexa is RIGHT - YOU are WRONG
you failed to READ alexa info !!!
read what alexa says about traffic accuracy for LOW traffic sites / site ranking BELOW 100'000
see
http://www.alexa.com/site/help/?index=84

FYI
the new Google feauture about websites traffic is as much wrong as alexa is ! = up to 200+% off the real traffic data!!!

 

Trust Google Analytics figure. I wonder why people are so particular with Alexa ranking. Alexa is an antiquated tool.

 

Alexa gets their info by doing a port scan.If someone have an Anti-virus/Spyware software it will block the port scan.
I also think that Alexa is wrong.

Trust Google Analytics.

 

I recently checked the Google data for websites traffic
it was FAR off the true data - far more than alexa!
but of course the published alexa rules apply to ALL

no accuracy for ranks higher than 100'000
the better the rank the more accurate the data

Google data were off by some 300%!!

 

Alexa is not meant to be correct for sites with traffic in lower numbers. Since Alexa uses a partially random statistical sample to build their data, they cannot provide accuate details for sites which they have a tiny sample. It is nearly impossible for them to track your site unless your site itself is teamed up with Alexa and sending data to them.

 

Indeed. Alexa can only get traffic data from those people who actually use their toolbar, if people don't visit your site and use Alexa's toolbar, it won't be accounted for... Alexa is very inaccurate, and should never really be relied on. Most people use Alexa merely to give advertisers a faint idea of how much traffic the site gives.

However, supposedly from what I hear some say that the more traffic your site gets, the more accurate it gets, like Google and Yahoo! but yeah, don't really rely on Alexa

 

Alexa also gathers data from webmasters who elect to include an Alexa widget on their site. I added the widget and my ranking jumped about a million spots in a period of about two days. Obviously not accurate, but I thought it was interesting.

 

Maybe it then uses traffic data it gets from the images traffic? Which would make it a heck of a lot more accurate... but still kind of a joke