iPatrix breaks into Alexa Top 100,000
I am not sure if this means anything but I just noticed that this blog is now ranked 95,443 in Alexa [see sidebar widget badge]. Alexa ranking is a quick way to calculate the ranking of your site in regards to incoming traffic. As you know, I am not a big fan of traffic as a measure forranking your website especially blogs and Alexa ranking can easily be manipulated (pssst…install the toolbar and widget on your blog). Although the rankings have been long discredited, a high Alexa ranking is still used by many advertising companies like Text Link Ad advertisers or Review Me sponsors to buy space on your website. So I hope some sucker notices the rise in rankings on this blog and hands me some dough. I’ll take back my tag of sucker if you do.
The 3-month traffic chart for this blog is shown below:
As you see the spikes in traffic came primarily in latter half of March and at two points in April. These spikes occurred due to my posts on the online streaming options for the Cricket World Cup and my diligent following of Sanjaya Malakar in his American Idol journey. Traffic after that has returned to its normal levels and I expect my Alexa ranking to take a nose-dive after those spike effects have petered out. But just for analysis (and online ego) sake, let us take a look at the trends over the past 3 months:
The reach per million average over the 3-month period was 0.0016% (now 0.00075%) but the increase was more than 1000%. Similarly the traffic rank jumped by 673,093. Impressive numbers, eh? My Mint counter tells me that this blog crossed the half-million mark in page views since it was installed in October 2006. The Site Meter/NedStat had registered another half million in the period preceding that [look how much difference an independent domain makes]. But just let us put those numbers in perspective and take a look at them in comparison to other biggies out there. Nope, I’ll not compare to MySpace or Yahoo but just another desi blog run by only one person:
Yup, this blog is that almost-flat blue line. Ouch!
“iPatrix breaks into Alexa Top 100,000” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=2049] was published Friday, May 25th, 2007 at 11:12 am by Patrix, filed under Internet, Personal, Technology, Weblogs, and tagged as Alexa, Alexa Rank, blogging, blogs, Internet, Personal, ranking, Technology, traffic. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.
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