Alexa is WRONG!!!

i think its ok ?

 

I believe that's why your site with more traffic actually has lower Alexa rankings.

 

Yes. I posted a thread about this a few weeks ago and what I found out is that they only count the traffic from people who have the alexa toolbar installed.

 

This "Teamed" thing you said at the end, I understand what you mean.
Does Alexa offer this? That would seem to me a better way to get your site ranked then rely on toolbar users who are far and inbetween.

Generaly though I can gather from experince a site that is near the 100K rank or so get probably 30K+ visitors a month. Most of which only a handful will actually have the toolbar.

 

i have already mashed up thread "How does alexa track statistics" - the results i got is they track with their toolbar.
quite annoying thing tracking website with toolbar.
i dont trust alexa ranking i prefer google analytics

 

But whether you have Alexa or Google rankings, the figures can be used for analysis. If you don't rank high with Google, something must be wrong with your keywords and you've got to do something about it knowing that more people use Google.

 

Stick and Alexa widget on your site and you will get more consistant results.

 

Alexa is not 100% correct ofcourse. For my country statistics I find some good popular site missing. And also some site that cannot be in top 100. And ofcourse, howmany people install alexa toolbar?

 

Alexa has its own ranking algo. its not similar to the google or yahoo. Its estimate the rank according to sites visitors

 

I think Alexa's stats are 2 weeks behind.

 

Well yeah, sorta, the stats aren't live, they are probably compiled every 3-5 days from what I notice, because if they were live, that would be a lot of data to be constantly processing

 

It caught mine. I found myself thinking "There's no need to be like that about it"

 

It can only be wrong if they claimed 100% accuracy. They don't. It's their own ranking system. You might as well say Google results are wrong too.

 

Not really, Google is not incorrect, they depend on something they can create and monitor themselves, unlike Alexa where they depend on other people to give them their data

 

As i know that alexa only collect the data with those visitor who using alexa tool, therefore the data is lesser than the actual

 

Thread is about alexa, started by alexme, one replyer alex_s. Lots of 'alex's all around!

 

I am having a similar problem with a couple of sites, I knew alexa can't tell who visits the site without that computer having their toolbar.

Anyway, if you have wordpress I recommend using a tool called "wassup". I use it on all my installs and it provides instant tracking, as well as spiders and a ton of other important features google analytics does not offer.

 

Looks really strange to me...but then again I don't really trust alexa...give it some time and maybe it'll stabilize a little...

 

I have the same view. Alexa stats confuse me also. Is there any other way to find out the popularity of your blog. Regarding number of page clicks.. histats looks alright..

 

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.
----your directory gets mostly webmaster traffic (installed Alexa toolbar) while the other does not.
Even though the latest change in Alexa algorithm minimizes the effect of their toolbar, sites with webmaster traffic still has a slight better advantage.
DP is a webmaster forum. See their Alexa rank. Drop a bit due to the change but still in the top 3K.
I have seen sites a lot bigger than DP but only under 5K. What does that mean?