Why is it that Alexa has not updated their stats since May 19th? It use to be once a week if I remember correctly.
They are busy trying to convert old data because of their recent algorithm changes. They only did 6 months of data, they need to convert the 5+ years before that.
Why does it matter? Alexa doesnt mean anything about a site. Only the users with their spyware toolbars track for them. What about the other portion of people without the toolbars. Just put regular traffic stats on your site. Just my opinion.
if google make something like alexa to compare between sites depended on GA then I will be intersted otherwise alexa is not that important for me
You'd think they'd publish something on their site about not updating after, say, the first ten days?? Alexa may be really flawed, but it's a decent way to compare sites within a niche.
And it looks better to prospective advertisers. Saying Alexa means nothing is an ignorant statement. Yeah, the data sucks, but for sites that have a higher ranking, it's fairly accurate.
It may not be that important for low traffic sites but of course you can compare sites on the basis of traffic.
ya it is unreliable. I have a site that gets 1,500+ people at day for last 2 months!. (A proxy site) and it ranks only 1,000,000 or so. It think it should actually rank like 100,000 I think!
But it's the standard measurement used by TLA (text link ads) to determine whether your site qualifies and get accepted. Either way, it's still important.