It really depends on the nature of your question. As I understand it, their system isn't capable of detecting fine changes in site traffic. So, if you're looking for local media traffic after a local breaking story, I don't know that Alexa is a good choice. If you're looking at traffic to NBCOlympics.com and the games are in progress, then it probably can give you something useful. Or if you're looking at traffic from one of the larger sites, in general, it will probably be useful. If we're considering the entire Internet, "Sites with relatively low measured traffic will not be accurately ranked by Alexa. We do not receive enough data from our sources to make rankings beyond 100,000 statistically meaningful." (From https://alexa.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200449744-How-are-Alexa-s-traffi... Cheers, Stacy On Sep 2, 2014 1:15 AM, "live" <human.factor.one@gmail.com> wrote:
Alexa is very reliable. It's as authoritative as the Internet Archive.
On Sep 1, 2014, at 10:49 PM, Noha Nagi wrote:
For me, I found it mentioned in academic articles. It's probably reliable.
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Jarosław Kopeć <jaroslaw.kopec@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi,
This is my first e-mail. It's great that there is such a list. I will probably using it extensively in next couple of months ;)
My question relating alexa.com is -- how reliable is this? Anyone used it in a scientific paper as an authoritative source?
2014-09-01 23:59 GMT+02:00 Noha Nagi <noha.a.nagi@gmail.com>:
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Anthony Nadler <amnadler@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm wondering where other researchers go to find measures of particular websites' traffic as well as web traffic rankings for certain categories (i.e. news, etc)? Any sites that keep good historical records of this data?
I'm also wondering if anyone knows of an article or other source that offers a good overview for thinking about the complexities of measuring and ranking web traffic and speaks to the pros and cons of different techniques? I'm writing about from a humanistic background with a desire to touch upon rankings data in a considered way.
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