While I like the stats, alexa is skewed, they only track the hits from people who have the plugin installed, and build an estimate from that.
The problem is that a lot of people that have that plugin installed are webmasters, not regular people. You can game Alexa very easily by grouping up with others with the same plugin, and revisit a site once a day to see the stats skyrocket.
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dogeguru ago
While I like the stats, alexa is skewed, they only track the hits from people who have the plugin installed, and build an estimate from that.
The problem is that a lot of people that have that plugin installed are webmasters, not regular people. You can game Alexa very easily by grouping up with others with the same plugin, and revisit a site once a day to see the stats skyrocket.
atri ago
While Alexa still has its issues, this was reportedly changed in 2008: https://web.archive.org/web/20080424144640/http://www.alexa.com/site/company/announcement
A relevant review: https://www.sitesell.com/blog/2017/05/alexa-reviews-basics-myths.html#