I think it's time we should make all our facts very straight. Alexa is Bogus, totally bogus. Try Quantcast instead. they are more accurate. If we look at quantcast or in fact Alexa also. we see Google as no. 1, then Yahoo, then MSN. But friends lets look a bit lower down the list. you will find live.com and microsoft.com also. if we add all three sites of microsoft they beat both google + youtube combined. It is MSN not Yahoo not Google. Quantcast: http://www.quantcast.com/
I think No one can replace Google in terms of search engine traffic. Alexa for me is the most accurate company if you want to know traffic details of your site.
I don't really trust Alexa, I heard that they only get traffic information from people who use the toolbar, if majority of the users aren't web savvy they simple don't have the toolbar then your info is wrong. I also don't trust that Mirosoft leads Google in ranking, even tho few of my websites are 7th on Google for a phrase and 1st on MSN, I never got any traffic from msn live search (or whatever they're called now).
Well i agree to an extent.... Stats below are for a new site 3 months old Links from an Internet Search Engine - Full list - Google 5596 22107 - Unknown SEs 245 245 - Yahoo 162 162 - MSN 80 80 - AOL 38 38 - Google (Images) 26 41 - Ask Jeeves 8 8 - Tiscali 4 4 Yet we are also advertising on 2 different forums that combined send over 60,000 monthly hits so there are other options for traffic but when it comes to SE traffic google is the king. Alexa only measures webmasters that have toolbar installed so its limited to its reach thx malcolm
Are you referring to me? If so yes they are accurate and i just got from awstats a few minutes ago... @Thakursahib Thanks for sharing this tool as its more accurate i think then most others thx malcolm
Alexa tells me that I get 20% of my traffic from India. Google Analytics tells me it is 2%. Who ya gonna believe? This tells me that people in India are waaaay heavy into the Alexa Toolbar. And that people in the USA are - not so much! Alexa also tells me that my traffic varies by a factor of 5 from day to day. Google tells me that my traffic NEVER varies by as much as a factor of 2 from day to day. Alexa stats are wacko. Period. Alexa data is a small sample size, and it is VERY skewed. Compete gives me a rank of 13,000. Quantcast gives me a rank of 17,000. Alexa gives me a rank of 39,000. They waaaaay underestimate my traffic. By a large factor. Back to the original subject. Google sends me almost ALL of my traffic. Get this - Google Images ALONE, sends me more traffic than Yahoo and MS COMBINED! MS gives me good ranking, but precious little traffic results from it. Have you ever heard anyone say, "I am going to MSN it"? How about, "I am going to Live it"? Nope. The vast majority "Google it"! So, if MS comes up #1 in "Ranking", I wonder what they are measuring? . .
Hold on for a sec. the post was not about, which site is giving us more traffic. it was about, which site is more popular. which site have more unique visitors coming to them. and as such microsoft (micro + MSN +live) have more traffic then Google+youtube combined.
Quantcast and Compete are lending more quality to the traffic stats data but they do not have a wide coverage. That is where Alexa wins!
If you want to know that MSN is more popular than google then just go through your analytics tools; just try your self buddy; and see recent visitor came from; you will came to know how much visitor you are getting from MSN Then again see through statcounter search engine war;
Alexa relies on toolbar, my 40% traffic on my blog is from US according to Google analytics. But according to Alexa is 15%. Alexa can't be trusted for sure..
Alexa also tells that most of my traffic comes from India. From other sources, I see that most of my traffic comes from the US.