Do you use Alexa?

[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