Comments on: Are Alexa Rankings Becoming Irrelevant?

By: DavidTan

DavidTan — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:30:07 +0000

Not all sites were harmed anyway, some of my sites got improved rankings. but like you said, why the drop and rise, no one knows for sure.

By: robi

robi — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:03:49 +0000

My page ( http://www.alpikor.org ) jumps from 470.000 to 1.300.000. Well… I don’t take alexa serious since I can make better analytics through google analytics. Of course, I’d like to compare traffic to my page with the others - but alexa isn’t a tool you can trust.
My opinion: alexa was irrelevant before this dramatic changes. Now it’s dead.
Robi

By: Pat Smith

Pat Smith — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:22:27 +0000

I noticed my ranking changed too, but did not understand the reason for it. Thanks for the update on alexa.Now things make more sense.

By: Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.com

Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.com — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:39:47 +0000

Before this update Alexa rankings were only comparable by industry, since each industry tended to have more or less Alexa users depending on the particular niche.

Now it is a much more holistic view of traffic.

My non internet marketing related websites were unaffected by the update, while so of my internet marketing related sites were lowered. Interestingly FullTiltBlogging.com stayed the same which makes me wonder if the length of the data stream has an impact as well.

By: Jeremy Palmer

Jeremy Palmer — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:12:42 +0000

From John Battelle’s blog:

I have not dug in, but it’s good to see Alexa 1. admit it was totally apples to watermelons and 2. see Amazon push some weight behind the still hopelessly lame world of third party traffic measurement.

By: Jeremy Palmer

Jeremy Palmer — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:10:36 +0000

In my opinion they have always been irrelevant. I stopped looking at the Alexa ratings in 2003.