Can someone explain this alexa graph :)

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by Hecky, Nov 5, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hey,

    http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=mysticky.net

    If you go to the rank tab on the graph, then go to the bottom and zoom out as far as you can..it has a very strange pattern. It says my alexa goes up to 54,000 :)D) then straight down again :)()

    Can someone explain this to me, I'm quit new to actually running a website :)

    -Hecky.
     
    Hecky, Nov 5, 2007 IP
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  2. kingfish

    kingfish Peon

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    Alexa is worthless?
     
    kingfish, Nov 6, 2007 IP
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    Kingfish that doesn't quite help him. :-P

    Hecky - Why would you ever zoom out completely on the Rank tab? You can compare any even half-big sites and realize every single one of them is completely off the chart.. over 95,000. This could have something to do with kingfish's comment, though.

    Alexa is kind of screwy - this is some proof. However, I personally still use it to compare sites.. soo.. Yeah.

    It's either that or Compete.com (I like this one better)
     
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  4. kingfish

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    Yeah sorry :)
    Alexa is mostly worthless. It is somewhat useful to compare trends between pages (only within the same niche) And somewhat useful to determine relative growth or decline of a site but that's about it.
     
    kingfish, Nov 6, 2007 IP
  5. Funster

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    Choose the 3 month Large view. But really, your site is too young to get meaningful info here yet. It doesn't take a big drop to go to 0 because you're not getting much traffic yet. Keep working on your site (which is cute BTW) and check back in a couple months.
     
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    yeah i agree. also focus on making $ since alexa is not to be trusted a whole lot
     
    caustictruths, Nov 9, 2007 IP