Do you know Alexa?

No it’s not the name of an Italian gorgeous chick that just arrived at Columbia. It’s basically a status bar which collect data all over the web to analyze the traffic, and therefore gives a good idea of how much visitors goes on a specific website.

http://www.alexa.com

Alexa is actually very accurate even though its data can be biased because of a community effect.

Indeed, Alexa tool bar is usually installed on the blogger / webmaster computers. Thus, some websites like digg.com and wordpress.org are ranked a bit too high.

Let’s now play with Alexa!

Who has the bigger number of page views? Facebook.com or Google.com? Is twitter having more traffic than youporn?
Alexa can answer all this questions.








What about the blog of the class?



Yep it’s not that good… I know :(

A tool like Google Analytics will be way more accurate than Alexa and will give you the real numbers, but nobody beside the webmaster will have access to these data.

Alexa gives you a good insight of how popular is a website! So don’t wait and download the Alexa status bar to contribute!

http://www.alexa.com/toolbar