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By: WebConnoisseur » Blog Archive » Please Stop Quoting Alexa Data

WebConnoisseur » Blog Archive » Please Stop Quoting Alexa Data — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:41:54 +0000

[...] I’m not the first to prove Alexa data is flawed. Here are links to other Alexa skeptics: Peter Norvig, Matt Cutts, Rand Fishkin (thanks for the data!), Greg Linden, Bruce Stewart, Alex Iskold, John Chow, and Markus Frind. [...]

By: Normalkid: Arnold Kim » » What You Have is Never Enough?

Normalkid: Arnold Kim » » What You Have is Never Enough? — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:13:57 +0000

[...] put some perspective, Markus’s dating site generates over 22 million page views/day and over $4.5 million a year (with no employees). But looking at where the trends are going is [...]

By: Markus

Markus — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:59:51 +0000

Its a hourly graph. So 1 million pageviews per hour.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:52:17 +0000

I completely get your argument, but either I’m reading the analytics wrong or your site “only” gets 1mill views per day, which of course still is 12 times more than techcrunch.

By: David

David — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:36:04 +0000

Is Alexa a for-profit organization?

Alexa aside, that’s some impressive traffic!

By: Alexa ranking wel of niet belangrijk at Enthousiasmeren

Alexa ranking wel of niet belangrijk at Enthousiasmeren — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:00:35 +0000

[...] Ook Markus van Plenty of Fish - een hele grote relatie site en top verdiener met AdSense schrijft over de Alexa ranking. Hij geeft een vergelijk tussen zijn eigen site en die van TechCrunch. En maakt een vergelijking op basis van Alexa en Sitemeter statistieken. [...]

By: Steve M

Steve M — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:57:09 +0000

So I keep seeing these comments that Alexa is total crap. And posts like this one make me believe it. But who is in a position to do better? How about Microsoft? If they added a Alexa like feature to IE they could get the vast majority of non-tech savvy users’ data. Plus the number of users giving feedback would drastically go up. Probably even if it had an opt-out.

By: Alexa Tries To Prove They Are Not Worthless « John Chow dot Com

Alexa Tries To Prove They Are Not Worthless « John Chow dot Com — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:21:58 +0000

[...] Markus at Plenty Of Fish also took a jab at Alexa in his latest blog entry. He noted that Tech Crunch gets around 85,000 page views per day according to the Sitemeter stats. His dating site, Plenty Of Fish gets over 24 million page views per day. Markus’s one day Google Analytics is below. [...]

By: Markus

Markus — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:25:07 +0000

Techcrunch and digg are more then slightly skewed. If you divide reach rank by actually visitors you get around 1 in 20 visitors to techcrunch has the alexa toolbar installed. For plentyoffish that number is way way higher then 1 in 1000.

To have your data skewed by a factor of 130:1 for 2 sites in the top .001% of your dataset is beyond laughable. Poeple then put out stories that techcrunch is beating CNET based on alexa, and digg is beating the new york times etc.

Even for dating sites that data is extremely skewed, I i see some cases where the data veries by a factor of 10 or more from other ranking systems.

The scary thing is I see emails from media buyers nearly every week saying they found the site via alexa and it looks like it has high traffic and they want to advertise.