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Most popular websites and traffic

Mr. EricMr. Eric
edited September 2007 in Everything Else
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Cool graph I found. You can see the booms and falls of the internet with MSN, Google, and Yahoo. Fall in 2001, boom in 2005. To get more graphs like these, go to www.alexa.com .

Comments

  • NeitoNeito
    That's really old, and they found that it's basically completely unreliable.
  • cosmicenemacosmicenema
    Cool graphs are cool.
  • AprecheApreche
    Alexa only counts IE users who have the Alexa toolbar installed. That means it basically tracks stupid Internet users, and not geeks. It's pretty old and worthless. Most people just ignore it. I think they only keep going with it because it makes them money in some way.
  • HMTKSteveHMTKSteve
    Look into Compete they are a new player in the stat market and claim to pull their data from things other than a toolbar.
  • rhinocerorhinocero
    Alexa only counts IE users who have the Alexa toolbar installed. That means it basically tracks stupid Internet users, and not geeks. It's pretty old and worthless. Most people just ignore it. I think they only keep going with it because it makes them money in some way.
    There's a Firefox Alexa toolbar now - here.  It seems to provide information to Alexa, anyway.
  • mattytehhax0rmattytehhax0r
    Okay, so they only report on people using IE, that have their toolbar installed (that I've never heard of). Sure, that's good data.
  • HMTKSteveHMTKSteve
    Okay, so they only report on people using IE, that have their toolbar installed (that I've never heard of). Sure, that's good data.
    Because advertisers believe in Alexa those who make money online also have to "believe" in Alexa. Same deal with Google Page Rank. I would be a much happier webmaster if neither of those two things existed.
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