How accurate is alexa.com?

badmaash · 05-12-2008, 03:49 PM

How accurate is alexa?

I was just looking at a site with 5000 pages in its blog and then when I looked at it through alexa it was only ranked 7,500,000 - that can't be right.

daedal · 05-12-2008, 03:53 PM

It's impossible to answer that question. Alexa only recently changed how they rank sites, so until its been active for a few months no one will know whether its accurate or not.

The old Alexa ranking system was not accurate at all.

trinityintrigue · 05-12-2008, 08:26 PM

Nope, the old alexa ranking system just used the results it gathered from those people who used it's toolbar.
Personally, I think they need to do what Compete and Quantcast have done and allow the webmaster to implement a piece of code to track the correct hits/uniques

neak · 05-12-2008, 11:33 PM

Just use it as a benchmark rather than something to rely on.

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05-12-2008, 11:33 PM	#4 (permalink)
neak hiyooooooooo Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 420 Points: 810	Just use it as a benchmark rather than something to rely on.