Proof: Alexa Does Not Work
I am now writing at my new site One .Net Way
I have always had my doubts on Alexa. I somehow was never convinced about its ranking system. Today I found what could be the mother of all malfunctions. I went to Alex to look at my rankings and I saw this:
So I am ranked 3,354,223 out of whatever gizillion sites out there. I then checked on one of my favourite blogs called Computer Zen written by Scott Hanselman.
So Scott’s blog ranks at 19,703,654 as compared to my 3,354,223. You’ve gotto be kidding me. He has twenty eight thousand subscribers to his feed and my feed subscription is too embarrassing to be mentioned in front of Scott’s. Clearly Alexa is not doing what it is suppose to do.
BTW: I am not loosing sleep over this. Next few days I’ll be telling everyone that my blog ranks better than Computer Zen.
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July 11th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
It does seem that alexa looks more at page views rather than other traffic (such as RSS feeds).. Your page views have increased by 39% over a 3 month period..
July 12th, 2008 at 4:14 am
Cool! Try http://www.hanselman.com, as no one uses computerzen.com
July 12th, 2008 at 5:27 am
Interesting! Try http://www.hanselman.com though, as computerzen.com isn’t really used - it’s just a redirect.
July 12th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Hi Scott,
I guess I never bothered to change my bookmarks. I’ve been following Computerzen all this time. I hope the post was perceived as good humour
July 12th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Of course! This is all good fun!
July 13th, 2008 at 5:31 am
you blog ranks higher than computer zen… but u already knew that
July 13th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Things were getting a bit boring here. I thought I’ll create some spice