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Are Alexa Ratings pretty accurate ?
Old 07-06-2009, 11:59 PM Are Alexa Ratings pretty accurate ?
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Lately I have been watching Alexa rankings of some sites.

Do you think they are fairly accurate ?

Does a website have to have the Alexa Toolbar in it to get rated ? or do they just go on hits by some other means ?
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Old 07-07-2009, 05:34 AM Re: Are Alexa Ratings pretty accurate ?
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Do you think they are fairly accurate ?
They're accurate for measuring what they do. Sadly, what they're measuring is useless .
  1. Only users with the Alexa toolbar record visits
  2. Only a small proportion of the surfing population have the Alexa toolbar installed, so the numbers aren't representative
  3. You can fake the numbers by visiting the same site repeatedly
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Old 07-08-2009, 08:21 AM Re: Are Alexa Ratings pretty accurate ?
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Measuring traffic as a value to represent a site's popularity might sound like a good idea, but the question is how is this kind of information to be retrieved. What Alexa displays is not representative at all.
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Old 07-09-2009, 02:53 AM Re: Are Alexa Ratings pretty accurate ?
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alexa has not got much relevance except maybe for resellers of websites. It has got errors sometimes with lot of false alexa based on redirects. Also it is recognised as a malware by some antivirus software!
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