Internet & Tech: Alexa Rankings

Posted By: KMulligan

My personal finance blog is now being tracked in Alexa, woohoo!

Now I don't mean in the top 100k, but my 1 week average ranked 451,406. A couple of weeks ago I wasn't even being tracked. No info.

In contrast, YGG ranks 53,596 as the 1 week average.

My Personal Finance Blog

Coolness. Yeah YGG has really shot up there, neat stuff.

they say that alexa only counts visitors who have alexa toolbars installed, so sites for seo, programming, etc may rank higher because a lot of the techie people who visit these sites probably have alexa toolbars.

http://www.e-consultancy.com/forum/101280-how-accurate-is-alexa-for-traffic-measurement.html

not sure, but that makes sense.

by the way, does your site have to be at least thee months old to even rank?

according to alexa:
The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for all sites on the Web on a daily basis. The main Alexa traffic rank is based on the geometric mean of these two quantities averaged over time (so that the rank of a site reflects both the number of users who visit that site as well as the number of pages on the site viewed by those users). The three-month change is determined by comparing the site's current rank with its rank from three months ago. For example, on July 1, the three-month change would show the difference between the rank based on traffic during the first quarter of the year and the rank based on traffic during the second quarter.