Do you use Alexa?

[diablo]

i neve really used it, heard of it, never used it, and i think i found out they werent very accurate from you linux lol, so thats even worse and another reason why i wont use them in the future

[LiNuX]

i neve really used it, heard of it, never used it, and i think i found out they werent very accurate from you linux lol, so thats even worse and another reason why i wont use them in the future

good to see i have some influence on some people lol

[Trunks]

The program is accurate..... It ranks websites right and moderates the views right. The program is perfectly accurate. If you are saying it's not accurate, because you have to use the program, then almost everything isn't accurate. You can't say the program isn't accurate just because you need the tool bar for it to count views. It's not like that for just this site. It's like that for all the sites...

[LiNuX]

The program is accurate..... It ranks websites right and moderates the views right. The program is perfectly accurate. If you are saying it's not accurate, because you have to use the program, then almost everything isn't accurate. You can't say the program isn't accurate just because you need the tool bar for it to count views. It's not like that for just this site. It's like that for all the sites...

no its not - they only count visitors that use the toolbar - they have no other way of tracking visitors unless there is some form of code or script within the web site

Google Analytics is a traffic monitoring program - THATS at least 50x more accurate because they use a code in the coding portion of the web page, generally in the footer. They keep track of which IP has visited, how long the person has been on the site, how many pages he viewed, etc.

And if alexa was accurate, it would have shown our traffic rise - I can show you proof right now that over the past few months our traffic has gone up a great deal and alexa did not record that and the only explanation is that we aren't getting as many people use alexa as we did before.

and the last half of your paragraph is really confusing especially this part: "It's not like that for just this site. It's like that for all the sites..."

I have a visitor tracker on this forum. It logs visitors through IPs and Cookies and hostnames. It's about 99% accurate without a doubt.

[Trunks]

I understand that, but it's accurate compared to all the other sites. Other forums are not at an advantage, it just depends who has the toolbar. There could be forums that have 10 times as many members as us, but they are a lower rank. The program basically shows how many people use alexa..... Maybe that's how they wanted to determine the ranks.

[Samus-Fan]

Nah, doubt it.

That is the only way they have figured out how to do it with.
Wouldn't you want to advertise at any given moment for you to make some cash?

[Trunks]

Nah, doubt it.

That is the only way they have figured out how to do it with.
Wouldn't you want to advertise at any given moment for you to make some cash?

Um, no read what linux said about that....... It wouldn't be that hard to make.....

[LiNuX]

I understand that, but it's accurate compared to all the other sites. Other forums are not at an advantage, it just depends who has the toolbar. There could be forums that have 10 times as many members as us, but they are a lower rank. The program basically shows how many people use alexa..... Maybe that's how they wanted to determine the ranks.

members and visitors are different - alexa doesn't care how many members we have - they care about who visited the forum with their toolbar installed

and by accurate - we are just saying compared to the real stats - alexa stats are WAYYYYY off. thats what i mean by accuracy - not comparing it to other websites that have the same way of tracking visitors - their method is just inaccurate to calculate visitors and rank them based on the information

and ya, your last part is right - they want people to use alexa - they get paid a lot from advertisements and the more toolbars installed probably gets them more money - and they wanted to determine the ranks this way because they thought this would be something that EVERYONE uses - if EVERYONE used it then its a different story but only a small percentage of internet goers actually use the alexa toolbar - they really should have come up with another way to rank the sites - probably would have been used a lot more