[Air-L] Web traffic rankings and numbers

Tue Sep 2 04:06:04 PDT 2014

Thank you very much for your answers. I’ll look into it more deeply.

Jarosław Kopeć
http://surfing.wymiarywiedzy.pl

Wiadomość napisana przez Rainer Hillrichs <hillrichs at uni-bonn.de> w dniu 2 wrz 2014, o godz. 10:51:

> Hi Anthony,
> 
> Just an addon: Historical data for web traffic is either for pay or not
> available at all on Alexa. If you want to use Alexa and need historical
> data - i.e. 'Which were the most-visited websites in... - enter
> www.alexa.com at the Internet Archive.
> 
> Best,
> Rainer
> 
> Rainer Hillrichs, University of Bonn
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Stacy Blasiola <sblasi2 at uic.edu> wrote:
> 
>> 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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>>>>> 
>>>> 
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