Category Archives: Alexa

A few months back, Alex Bosworth asked a good question: with millions of active users, why was LinkedIn’s Alexa traffic graph so low? I suggested in a comment that the issue might be LinkedIn’s exclusive use of SSL, where Alexa … Continue reading →

If you said Wikipedia, MySpace, YouTube, flickr, and digg (in that order), nice work. The takeaway is that website traffic follows a power law distribution. The top 4 or so sites on the web do orders of magnitude more traffic … Continue reading →

This is part two of my ‘Tale of the Tape’ series, a periodic look at Alexa stats that catch my eye. I mentioned in my Tale of the Tape intro that it’s a bad idea to take Alexa stats out … Continue reading →

This is part one of my ‘Tale of the Tape’ series, a periodic look at Alexa stats that catch my eye. Squidoo is just coming up on six months of being in the wild – first as part of a … Continue reading →

I admit it – I’m addicted to Alexa. Through data gathered by their Internet Explorer toolbar, Alexa attempts to rank the popularity of web sites along various metrics. Tech pundits love to point to Alexa stats when drinking the Kool … Continue reading →