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. -- Anthony Nadler Assistant Professor of Media and Communication Studies Ursinus College
Try http://www.alexa.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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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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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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Hi Jarosław, When i worked in local media I could compare our actual website numbers to what Alexa reported. I describe it as woefully inaccurate. That said, it's a popular free tool and it is used a fair amount in publications, so it has that going for it. I think this reflects availability more than reliability. So whether to use it depends on how important the accuracy of that number is for your argument. If you want to understand where their numbers come from, they explain it here: "Alexa's traffic estimates are based on data from our global traffic panel, which is a sample of millions of Internet users using one of over 25,000 different browser extensions. In addition, we gather much of our traffic data from direct sources in the form of sites that have chosen to install the Alexa script on their site and certify their metrics. However, site owners can always choose to keep their certified metrics private. Our global traffic rank is a measure of how a website is doing relative to all other sites on the web over the past 3 months. The rank is calculated using a proprietary methodology that combines a site's estimated average of daily unique visitors and its estimated number of pageviews over the past 3 months. We provide a similar country-specific ranking, which is a measurement of how a website ranks in a particular country relative to other sites over the past month." That's from http://www.alexa.com/about Here's a hack I use when I can: if the website has a media kit you can often get traffic numbers from those. Just google: website name Year mediakit .PDF (that's what usually works for me). Otherwise, search AdAge for articles relating to the site you're interested in. They often have articles that list web traffic for the bigger sites. Cheers, Stacy On Sep 2, 2014 12:49 AM, "Noha Nagi" <noha.a.nagi@gmail.com> 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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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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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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Hi Anthony, Just an addon: Historical data for web traffic is either for pay or not available at all on Alexa. If you want to use Alexa and need historical data - i.e. 'Which were the most-visited websites in... - enter www.alexa.com at the Internet Archive. Best, Rainer Rainer Hillrichs, University of Bonn On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Stacy Blasiola <sblasi2@uic.edu> wrote:
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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Thank you very much for your answers. I’ll look into it more deeply. Jarosław Kopeć http://surfing.wymiarywiedzy.pl Wiadomość napisana przez Rainer Hillrichs <hillrichs@uni-bonn.de> w dniu 2 wrz 2014, o godz. 10:51:
Hi Anthony,
Just an addon: Historical data for web traffic is either for pay or not available at all on Alexa. If you want to use Alexa and need historical data - i.e. 'Which were the most-visited websites in... - enter www.alexa.com at the Internet Archive.
Best, Rainer
Rainer Hillrichs, University of Bonn
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Stacy Blasiola <sblasi2@uic.edu> wrote:
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. > > -- > Anthony Nadler > Assistant Professor of Media and Communication Studies > Ursinus College > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ >
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It's not clear who is making the claim below, and the evidence for it. No information based on the email address. I hope it is correct. Lingfei Wu and I use Alexa data here, but we don't look at accuracy of the data, as such: Wu, L. and R. Ackland (2014), "How Web 1.0 Fails: The Mismatch Between Hyperlinks and Clickstreams," /Social Network Analysis and Mining/, 4(1). Pre-print: http://voson.anu.edu.au/papers/Web_1.0_Fail_23Feb14.pdf -- Dr Robert Ackland Australian National University http://voson.anu.edu.au <http://voson.anu.edu.au/> On 02/09/14 16:14, live 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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I am using alexa.com in my PhD thesis. Recent studies suggest that it is a credible data source - see for example: Ennew, C., Lockett, A., Blackman, I., & Holland, C. P. (2005). Competition in Internet Retail Markets: The Impact of Links on Web Site Traffic. Long Range Planning, 38(4), 359-372. Price, A., & Grann, V. R. (2012). Portrayal of complementary and alternative medicine for cancer by top online news sites. Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.), 18(5), 487-493. Reay, I., Beatty, P., Dick, S., & Miller, J. (2013). Privacy policies and national culture on the internet. Information Systems Frontiers, 15(2), 279-292. Stephen, K. C. (2011). Internet banking and performance. American Journal of Business, 26(1), 12-25. Hope that helps! Tim. Tim Graham PhD Candidate / Research Assistant School of Social Science University of Queensland -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Robert Ackland Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2014 4:41 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Web traffic rankings and numbers It's not clear who is making the claim below, and the evidence for it. No information based on the email address. I hope it is correct. Lingfei Wu and I use Alexa data here, but we don't look at accuracy of the data, as such: Wu, L. and R. Ackland (2014), "How Web 1.0 Fails: The Mismatch Between Hyperlinks and Clickstreams," /Social Network Analysis and Mining/, 4(1). Pre-print: http://voson.anu.edu.au/papers/Web_1.0_Fail_23Feb14.pdf -- Dr Robert Ackland Australian National University http://voson.anu.edu.au <http://voson.anu.edu.au/> On 02/09/14 16:14, live 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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participants (8)
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Anthony Nadler -
Jarosław Kopeć -
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Noha Nagi -
Rainer Hillrichs -
Robert Ackland -
Stacy Blasiola -
Timothy Graham