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Re: Alexa Toolbar for Firefox (Official)

Rob — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:53:24 -0000

Don't know why I've procrastinated using this for so long. Looks like I better join the club.

Re: Alexa Toolbar for Firefox (Official)

shreya — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:11:31 -0000

vry gud..

Re: Alexa Toolbar for Firefox (Official)

Jeremy Fuksa — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:03:19 -0000

Quite coincidentally, I wrote a post on my site about my problems with Alexa on the same day that the plugin was released.

Hasn't done anything to bring my site out of the Alexa sewer :)

http://blog.3rdmartini.com/...

Re: Alexa Toolbar for Firefox (Official)

mark — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:27:46 -0000

You're not alone. Alexa rankings don't really make sense, and a lot of people don't like it. I guess it's because a lot of people don't use their toolbar, which determines the ranks:

http://www.alexa.co/site/he...

http://www.alexa.com/site/h...

Re: Alexa Toolbar for Firefox (Official)

chris — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:15:44 -0000

I agree with Greg, use compete.com - most importantly you should only be interested in the unique users and unique visits. Alexa is useless.

chris @ www.frostfirebuzz.com - internet news

Re: Alexa Toolbar for Firefox (Official)

Otis Gospodnetic — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:30:41 -0000

I wonder what this is going to do to traffic charts for sites with a high proportion of Firefox users, such as Simpy. Here are some thoughts and a chart - http://blog.simpy.com/blojs...

Re: Alexa Toolbar for Firefox (Official)

Greg — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:17:52 -0000

I use Compete.com

Re: Alexa Toolbar for Firefox (Official)

RBA — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:04:52 -0000

One thing that "fascinates" me about Alexa...

We have a site that gets about 500-700,000 pageviews/day according to Google Analytics. The Alexa rating dances between 10,000 and 15,000. Not impressive, I know.

Now, we also have another site tha barely gets 50,000 pageviews/day. The Alexa rating? Between 12,000 and 18,000.

This means that sometimes, a site that gets 10 times less pageviews/day (same 10x-plus ratio with unique visitors) sometimes rates better in Alexa. Same goes for the Alexa "reach" stats, they just don't make sense when you're looking at the real stats of both sites.

So even for those who say that it is still a good tool to *compare* sites, please explain this to me how come a site that gets 50,000 pageviews and 15,000 uniques/day ranks better than one that gets over 100,000 visitors/day and over 500,000 pageviews/day.

Quantcast's approach seems to make a lot more sense to me.