Not Feeling the Alexa Love
In stark contrast to Quantcast, which, when you add their tracking code to your site, gives you more information about your site, Alexa, well, doesn’t. I added their traffic rank widget to a podcast site of mine, which gets around 100 unique visitors a day. We were at around a 2 million rank before adding the widget. For a while, we went up a bit, then plummeted down to the 5 million range…and then we disappeared. Now all I get from Alex is “No Data” and a suggestion to add their widget to my site…which, of course, I had already done. Ugh.
June 4th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Personally I think Alexa is a waste of time. Okay I do now and again have a quick look at our rankings, but it doesn’t really provide any useful information that can’t be achieve using Google Analytics for example.