[Air-L] Web traffic rankings and numbers

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Mon Sep 1 23:14:26 PDT 2014


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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