[Air-L] Most popular sites

Fred Stutzman fred at metalab.unc.edu
Tue Feb 5 06:13:36 PST 2008


I've found that Alexa/etc. aren't particularly good at baseline data, but 
they do work fairly well for inter-site comparison.

-Fred


On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Sarah Robbins wrote:

> The important thing to remember about Alexa is that it works a bit like
> Nielson. It only tracks visits to a website from people who have the Alexa
> plugin on their browser. I think that makes it a bit skewed but many people
> still cite it.
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