Alexa stats (WAS RE: Killing caches)

From: Petteri Pyyny <webmaster_at_afterdawn.com>
Date: Tue 05 Jun 2001 15:37:15 -0500

JUSTIN W. HITT <Justin.Hitt_at_hittpansophism.com> WROTE:

> My site is
>ranked 28,710 with Alexa, but my logs say it only
>receives 25,000 unique visitors a month.

TO WHICH ALEX CHUDNOVSKY <alexc_at_jungle.com> REPLIED:

>I consider Alexa's stats being very very questionable.

TO WHICH RON SHERIDAN <ron_at_ronsheridan.com> ADDED:

>I've always found Alexa numbers to very reliable.
>Accuracy is another thing.


We have a statistics site and we have limited the
access to that stats server so there are only _two_
IPs that can access to that server -- other one is
our tech administrator's and other one is mine. And
as we both have Alexa installed on our computers,
we've been very happy to see that our stats server
with 2 unique users is currently ranked by Alexa to
be the number 25,000 site in the world in terms of
traffic... So, sites that have few really active users
that have Alexa installed on their machines, get way
too high ranking.

-Petteri Pyyny
http://AfterDawn.com



Received on Tue Jun 05 2001 - 15:37:15 CDT