Why Alexa sucks

I am not sure why many webmasters look, think and watch on Alexa website rank. That thing is completely useless. Why. There are many reasons, but main thing is their ways of getting their data. They simply can’t know how much some site is visited, especially if that site is not among the site visited from people who use Alexa toolbar.

There are many examples. First one is this blog. Alexa Rank of this Sulumits Retsambew entry is constantly around 130 000 and this site don’t even have 100 UV daily. Is it possible that webmasters who mostly visit this blog are using Alexa toolbar more then other people. Sure. Some of my sites that are getting over 3k unique visitors daily are not even close to this number, acrosstheplanet.net with 300 UV daily is not even close to Alexa of 1 million. Some people say Alexa don’t count very well sites that are not in top 100k results? That is why second example.

Year ago Netbuilders forum just started with his work. Those who don’t know it’s a webmaster forum. It progressed very fast. Few months after start forum had maybe less then 1000 unique visitors daily, but it ranked near other big webmasters boards like v7n, DP, warrior forums and similar sites. Again there are bunch of sites that have over 5k visitors daily and that are not even in top 100 000 results of Alexa.

Now you can say Alexa is more accurate in the top 100 web sites. You don’t need Alexa to figure out top100 sites, just a healthy logic. As someone said: “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”. So please people stop using Alexa results and stop referring to them, they mean nothing.

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