[Air-L] Web traffic rankings and numbers

[Stacy Blasiola]

It really depends on the nature of your question. As I understand it, their
system isn't capable of detecting fine changes in site traffic. So, if
you're looking for local media traffic after a local breaking story, I
don't know that Alexa is a good choice. If you're looking at traffic to
NBCOlympics.com and the games are in progress, then it probably can give
you something useful. Or if you're looking at traffic from one of the
larger sites, in general, it will probably be useful.

If we're considering the entire Internet, "Sites with relatively low
measured traffic will not be accurately ranked by Alexa. We do not receive
enough data from our sources to make rankings beyond 100,000 statistically
meaningful." (From
https://alexa.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200449744-How-are-Alexa-s-traffic-rankings-determined-

Cheers,
Stacy

On Sep 2, 2014 1:15 AM, "live" <human.factor.one at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alexa is very reliable.
> It's as authoritative as the Internet Archive.
>
> On Sep 1, 2014, at 10:49 PM, Noha Nagi wrote:
>
> > For me, I found it mentioned in academic articles. It's probably
> reliable.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Jarosław Kopeć <jaroslaw.kopec at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This is my first e-mail. It's great that there is such a list. I will
> >> probably using it extensively in next couple of months ;)
> >>
> >> My question relating alexa.com is -- how reliable is this? Anyone used
> >> it in a scientific paper as an authoritative source?
> >>
> >> 2014-09-01 23:59 GMT+02:00 Noha Nagi <noha.a.nagi at gmail.com>:
> >>> Try http://www.alexa.com/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Anthony Nadler <amnadler at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I'm wondering where other researchers go to find measures of
> particular
> >>>> websites' traffic as well as web traffic rankings for certain
> categories
> >>>> (i.e. news, etc)?  Any sites that keep good historical records of this
> >>>> data?
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm also wondering if anyone knows of an article or other source that
> >>>> offers a good overview for thinking about the complexities of
> measuring
> >> and
> >>>> ranking web traffic and speaks to the pros and cons of different
> >>>> techniques?  I'm writing about from a humanistic background with a
> >> desire
> >>>> to touch upon rankings data in a considered way.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Anthony Nadler
> >>>> Assistant Professor of Media and Communication Studies
> >>>> Ursinus College
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> >> Jarosław Kopeć
> >> http://surfing.wymiarywiedzy.pl
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> >
> >
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