Alexa toolbar

[x3mario]

Originally Posted by t.analiza011885

so if alexa is not efficient and accurate in estimating our site why do we still using this toolbar?

This is for monitoring the estimated traffic but not relying on this......

[ezhel]

I dunno why people are still relying on Alexa, But I believed there's a lot of tools to check PR.

Originally Posted by x3mario

This is for monitoring the estimated traffic but not relying on this......

[Natural Elements]

LOL "we do not receive enough data from our users to make rankings over 100,000+ statistically meaningful"

So, if I understand, the Alexa toolbar is made for only for 100,000 sites basically? ahahhah this is a super joke lol

Why estimate only 100,000 sites accurately if on the web there are millions sites?

Why to give statistics if they don't receive enough data from their users?

I think they should not try to give fake statistics for the above 100,000, it would be simpler.

One more thing I removed Alexa toolbar long time ago, I am just aware by some directories who listed the Alexa ranking, with a blank graph lol how stupid is that?

[sethsark]

I've noticed a huge drop in our alexa ranking over the last 6 months, but our server site stats are showing an increase. I'm assuming this is because of the merge from xp to vista and not reinstalling the Alexa bar. So, looking around some suggested adding a widget to our site so as to collect better statistics (I assume that this would be comparable to the urchin script we installed for Google analytics). Please check our site widget at the bottom of this page eldoradoguide.com/dir
Is my understanding of the widget correct? Does it gather visit counts?

It's well known that these stats can be faked, and that is the very last thing I want to do as it would also skew my server stats. I just want to know if they offer a more accurate option.

[sethsark]

I was reffering to the local population merge to xp, not my own machine.