Alexa traffic rank is a new tool following the introduction of the Google
page rank system. Alexa gives each site and its relative pages a traffic
rank which in theory shows how popular your site is on the internet.
Although the Alexa traffic rank is a lot easier to understand then the Google
page rank system I feel it is important to explain how it works.
A brief description is as follows:
The Alexa traffic rank is calculated from the millions of Alexa toolbars
and their users. Each toolbar records what web sites you visit. This data
is through to Alexa headquarters which is then sorted, counted and computed
to produce the Alexa traffic rank that we see on our Alexa toolbars today.
The traffic rank is calculated from 3 months of historical traffic data
which comes from the millions of Alexa toolbars over the internet.
The final figure is combined from measure of page views (the number of
pages viewed by toolbar users) and users (percentage of all Internet users
who visit a given site).
The easiest way to check the traffic rank of a site is to download the
ALEXA
TOOLBAR which will tell you the traffic rank of a site when you surf
the internet. However you can view the traffic rank of a site without installing
the toolbar
HERE.
If you would like to read Alexa's description of their traffic rank, please
visit their
TECHNOLOGY
page.
Other handy web sites relating to Alexa traffic rank are as follows:
-
ALEXA TRAFFIC RANK HEATS UP
- ALEXA
EXPLAINED
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