[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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Fred Stutzman
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fred at metalab.unc.edu
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