What happened to the original post in this thread?
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Originally Posted by NothingButNet
mmm... what are you talking about?
Why do you say that Alexa is meaningless? I mean... I agree, because it shows only stats from people who have the Alexa toolbar installed. But is there something else you mean?
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There doesn't need to be anything else. The problem with Alexa ranks is that they are derived from an invalid and hopelessly skewed sample. Due to that significant sampling error, it is not possible to draw any meaningful conclusions whatsoever from the data.