A couple of years ago, there was an interesting conflict between two of the most popular video blogs/podcasts/whatever - zeFrank and Rocketboom. ZeFrank pointed to alexa data that showed his hits much higher, despite rocketboom's claim to the contrary. Rocketboom's argument is that page hits is very different from number of times a video is downloaded. ... Richard On 2/5/08 6:27 AM, "Jessie Daniels" <jessiedanielsnyc@gmail.com> wrote:
I've used Alexa.com in some of my research as a marker of website popularity. It seems to be a well-trusted source by industry. I'd be interested in hearing others' opinion of it.
Jessie Daniels, PhD CUNY-Hunter College
-- Richard H. Hall Professor, Information Science and Technology Missouri S&T http://mst.edu/~rhall