My Alexa rating

[se4b4ss]

i've read here that this means nothing, but i hope it at least means general progress: alexa link. Take a look at the number of spots i went up.

regards,
steve

[Shawn]

It's great that you're getting more visitors,but honestly a change from a very low traffic rating to the 200's could very well be just one person who recently installed the toolbar, ie the webmaster. Whereas a change from the 5000's to the 500's would mean alot more. Does that make sense?

[dcristo]

It's an inaccurate measurement because it's really only webmasters who have the alexa toolbar installed.

[thebassman]

I don't think it's only webmasters that have it... people that have older computers (like my parents for instance), who had it installed from 4 years ago still have it... it's not super accurate, but still worth keeping in mind.

[avaden]

I had a new website put together for a client and they wanted the traffic rating on their site so they can see if it grew. Funny thing is...the first day we installed it, which was the 12th day of the site itself, it had a Alexa traffic rating of just under 10,000!!! I was shocked...since my high traffic site was around 200k. So since then, I've felt it was a joke. Maybe it watches something....but it's all over the board.

[se4b4ss]

thanks for the responses. i suppose it's a better indicator to baseline my unique ip address hits, etc. than to rely on alexa's raitng system.

thanks again,
steve

[Brian911]

Originally Posted by se4b4ss

thanks for the responses. i suppose it's a better indicator to baseline my unique ip address hits, etc. than to rely on alexa's raitng system.

thanks again,
steve

it certainly is. try using a log analyzer like webalizer or analog, they are both great at visualizing your traffic and main traffic sources.

[Papadoc]

Not unique IP hits either. There are many shared IP addresses and one AOL user could give you several IP addresses loading just one page. For a few businesses, unique visitors is the critical measurement. But for most sites, the only thing that counts is conversion.

All other things being equal, a site that has 100 visitors per month and converts 25% is far more valuable in my book than one that has a 100,000 visitors per month and only converts 0.5%, even though it is a larger gross number.

The first one doesn't have traffic, but the owner has a killer conversion method. I can get traffic in the door and if I do, that site is a goldmine. The second site has much traffic but has no idea how to convert their prospects into clients.

The only people that should be getting any real satisfaction out of an increasing number of visitors are ad-dependent publishers and the only reason that is, is because that's where THEIR money is.

[jwalsh]

I believe it's inaccurate overall. However, it does seem to be fairly accurate below 2,000.

Josh

[Johan007]

Its hard to believe (though probably true) that the toolbar users are what makes up the stats. There are services (at cost) that have web stats of most of the web by analysing ISP web logs very accurately.

[John Scott]

http://www.v7n.com/alexa.php

[OptWizard]

Alex=Waste of time

[LuckyPimp]

Alexa holds some value, like when a marketing company comes around telling me they can send me "millions of visitors" and yet they have no Alexa ranking. I always ask them why is that, and they don't even know what Alexa is.