Post your alexa ranking!

Post your sites alexa rankings!

I currently have one at 218k one at 550k and another at 600k..

What's yours?

 

Teenforumz = 187,507

 

AA: 81,642

 

Walt Disney Boards is at 487k

 

Got like no where to go but up

2,101,616

 

Is it the Traffic Rank you look at? What does that number mean anyway? Ours certainly seems to go up and down a lot so I'm really not sure what good that number is.

47,873 for TTD

 

Now does this number really mean anything? My site is dead most of the time but my rating is pushing a million?

992,938

 

The lower the rating, the better.

And no, it doesn't mean anything because Alexa's statistics are flawed.

 

oh well, at least I'm doing great in other countries it's only 200k

 

My site has an alexa ranking of just under 700,000.

 

Debatable, as some advertisers (adtoll, adbrite etc) use alexa as a measurement of traffic, but I'm not gonna s tart the age old debate of why alexa is good in some respects and bad in others

 

Eh, its basically a rough estimate of your sites traffic, the lower the number is, the better basically, and it gets more accurate as you reach the lower numbers... the most accurate figures are at 100,000 and less, this means your particular traffic rank is quite an accurate measurement, the reason for the fluctuations could be the fact that certain members who use the toolbar lapse in and out of inactivity

 

Debatable, as some advertisers (adtoll, adbrite etc) use alexa as a measurement of traffic, but I'm not gonna s tart the age old debate of why alexa is good in some respects and bad in others

There are some threads around here that touch on the subject.

Just because advertisers use it, doesn't mean it is an accurate measurement.

It's flawed because it only counts/tracks visits from users who have the Alexa toolbar installed. I'm sure we can both agree that only a certain demographic - usually the technically inclined - are who use the toolbar. My Linnie Forum happens to attract middle-aged to elderly users; as such, hardly any of my visitors are technically inclined in the least and therefore don't use an Alexa toolbar. As far as Alexa knows, my site isn't visited often and thus has a low rating. But they're wrong.


In other words, take two sites:
-One attracts computer geeks who all use the Alexa toolbar.
-The other attracts elderly users who don't know how to send an e-mail to save their life. They obviously don't use the Alexa toolbar.

They both get the same identical amount of traffic, visits, visitors, pageviews, time spent on site, etc. The site that attracts computer geeks is going to have a much higher Alexa rating since the users actually use the toolbar. The site that attracts elderly users is going to be seen as hardly visited, by Alexa. Therefore, it's obviously an inaccurate measurement if a site with identical traffic doesn't have the same rating.

 

Now that is worthless.

Just how many people even know about Alexa? The only reason I even ran across Alexa was they showed up on my google analytics account. I got bored and figured I would check it out. That was a month ago but I've been using the internet a good 15 years before then.

 

Alexa announced that they were factoring other things in now, other than just toolbar use, which accounted for the huge jump a few sites noticed in ranking.

 

Alexa Blog: The Alexa Ranking system has been changed

Until I see where they specify what these new "multiple sources" are, I'm honestly not convinced.

 

hum...I guess I could ask all my members to sign up for the Alexa tool bar :devil:

 

Wonder if theres a way to make members auto download the toolbar as they sign up..

 

That would be fishy, and I don't think I'd ever sign up on a forum that forced any toolbar or program upon me.

What would be pretty neat is if Alexa allowed you to create your own toolbar for your site. One that contained links to important parts of your website, perhaps a search bar specifically for your site, and any other neat gizmos. You can then promote this on your site and entice your users to install/use it. Since it has Alexa's technology behind it, the traffic is measured and it's as good as using the Alexa toolbar.

How's that for innovation?

 

Well I posted a thread mentioning it to members as an experimental site helper. So who knows, maybe I can pick up some better ranks.