Does My Alexa Ranking Mean Anything?
For those of you who don’t know, Alexa ranking is a measure of importance of websites in relation to all others on the web. It’s traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users over a rolling 3 month period. It is based on the number of unique visitors on a given day and page view requests for a site. Only top level domains, like www.peopleareparked.com are counted and not sub-domains, like each blog posting page.
After installing the Alexa Toolbar, I’ve been watching the numbers change. When we first started PeopleareParked.com, five months ago, our Alexa ranking was 8,842,119. Almost nine million — now that’s quite a high number and makes you feel pretty insignificant! Since then, I’ve been following our number everyday and it’s been falling slowly, but making progress. As of today, the number is 419,344. A little over eight million lower — not bad.
Today’s top ranking sites are #1 Yahoo, #2 Google, and #3 You Tube — no surprises there. For the full list or more information, check out http://www.alexa.com/.
So what does it all mean? Is there really any weight to this ranking system? I’m not really sure, but it seems we’re doing something right and heading in the right direction. Traffic is slowly increasing, big thanks to all our loyal readers.
January 17th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Alexa ranking is a general indicator, so it means something. More important though is traffic and especially the number of unique visitors to your site.
January 17th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Agree with steveP about traffic being most important, but it is fun to see the alexa numbers drop and compare with other sites.
January 17th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Alexa is stupid.
January 18th, 2008 at 10:20 am
I think it’s useful.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
yeah, it’s just one of the many useful tools.