#1 (permalink)

i know thi smight not be the right section sorry but i dont know where to post it.

what is the daily reach in alexa? and why does it say "per million"?

thanks

#2 (permalink)

From http://www.alexa.com/site/help/traffic_learn_more#reach:In other words, it's the percentage of Alexa toolbar users that visit that website. (Or number of users per million if not expressed as percentage).

#3 (permalink)

oh ok thats what i figured, is there anyway to tell how much traffic a site gets? not on alexa obviously

#4 (permalink)

You can use the alexa rankings of sites where you know the real traffic vs other sites and guess approximately how much the other sites are getting.

E.g:

http://www.hotel-online.com/Logs/usage_200607.html (~700k visits)
http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=379...tel-online.com (~50 daily reach per million)

http://www.osgov.com/stats/usage_200607.html (~325k visits)
http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=379...uxmachines.org (~40 daily reach per million)

http://www.unf.edu/usage/webalizer/usage_200607.html (~830k visits)
http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=379...&y=r&u=unf.edu (~20 daily reach per million)

I couldn't find any webalizer logs for any really big sites, and alexa doesn't show rankings for really small ones.

Also, for some sites it's not a very good metric (like edu sites), so don't depend on it for anything important.

You could try sites like: http://www.trafficestimate.com too, but most are probably based on alexa.