Is The New Alexa More Accurate? Initial Answer: No.

Written by Allen Stern - April 16, 2008
Comments
4 Comments
Forward
E-mail
AddThis

AlexaEarlier this evening, we reported on Alexa's ratings model changes and suggested that if more accurate it could help Alexa build a new trust with their users. It appears that the new Alexa model isn't much better than the original model on our first tests.

CN dropped from ~25,000 to ~76,000 which is a shocking drop of 51,000 spots. I actually believe this is a huge mistake and is the highest drop I've seen so far. Yet our sister site, HTMLCenter actually moved up about 30,000 spots and now sits at ~95,000. The kicker is this: HTMLCenter currently has 15% of the traffic that CN has.

Other sites that have reported in on ranking changes:

Alexa staff, if you are reading this - I'd love a chat with you even if it's off the record.

AddThis
Comments - Add New CommentComment Now
It may take up to five minutes for your comment to appear
Submitted by Anonymous on April 17, 2008 - 10:21am.
Subject: CLRSearch.com link is broken

It should be http://www.clrsearch.com, it's missing the http in the link above.

Submitted by centernetworks on April 17, 2008 - 11:24am.
Subject: thank you

thank you, i've corrected the link

Submitted by John S on April 17, 2008 - 10:35am.
Subject: Noticed another

Hard Rock Park (a site I've been watching until they open their park) also enjoyed a 40,000 point jump. While I noticed many others tanked. If Alexa does ever answer your open request, be sure to report on it! Thanks.

Submitted by Anonymous on May 13, 2008 - 2:55am.
Subject: Re: Is The New Alexa More Accurate? Initial Answer: No.

I heared the announcement that alexa has changed its ranking algorithm. I am little happy with this change because my website got little improvment. see new alexa ranking for http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=www.fortunehotels.in Fortune Park Hotels Ltd.

Post new comment
note: comments may take up to 5 minutes to appear due to cache
The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options

Our Sponsors


ScribeFire
Clicky Web Analytics

Our Partners

cmplt

OrganicStats
read centernetworks anywhere!
© 1999-2008 CenterNetworks
Home | News | Reviews | Insights | Interviews | Web Jobs | Press Releases | Startup Tips