Comments on: What is Wrong With Alexa Traffic Ranking?

By: Manisha

Manisha — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:04:54 +0000

Recently I started working on Alexa rankings. From your blog i m thinking i have to study more about that..thanks friend for sharing this information.

By: John Wepakati

John Wepakati — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:22:26 +0000

I would not defend alexa at all. Their data is flowed. Our website according to google webmaster tools has more than 500 incoming links but according to alexa, it has 54. I can trust google on this because I followed most of the links and I could see our site linked. The numbers of visitors to http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/ alexa gives is very much different to what all the analytics tools we have running. I have lost faith in Alexa as it is very unreliable.

By: greentea

greentea — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:42:16 +0000

First of all, you need to understand that, there’s no anybody own the whole Internet. So it is impossible for other website to get your website traffic unless he or she is a illegal hacker.

Alexa traffic is based on it’s own toolbar traffic and made estimation, so it would have biased if your country doesn’t like Alexa toolbar.

If Microsoft and Mozilla would release the Internet traffic report, the data would be much more accurate because most Internet users use MS Internet Explorer and Firefox browser, but it would draw a security and privacy problems.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:32:34 +0000

Bravo! Well said!

Alexa.com should put a disclaimer on its website warning people that their data is “For Amusement / Entertainment Use Only” as Alexa rankings CAN be easily manipulated.

By: Foam Roofing

Foam Roofing — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:02:18 +0000

How can I say this plainly.

As a student of statistics, it’s simple.

Bad sample = Bad Data.

Period.

If that’s too hard to understand, then maybe even finger painting, explaining it really slow still wont help.

Alexa has a biased sample, so the results are biased. Period.

Alexa data is only valid for the alexa community. They clearly have a data sample that does NOT match the rest of the world.

The author of this blog is right. The data they present is no good, unless you’re just interested in analyzing the Alexa community, or getting ranked high in their community. You can be #1 on google, but no where to be seen on Alexa. It happened to me with serveral of my own sites. These are big businesses, with big traffic, and millions in revenue.

Anyway, I’m making this comment because the author’s statement is astute, and poignant. You people that claim Alexa is accurate as a representation of the world need to pull your head out of whatever hole you’re stuck in….