What the hell is Alex?
 | This site gives us information Web audience (or put another way: traffic!) Of the sites you specify, from 1 to 5 at a time, for comparison, giving as a criterion: Ranking, hits, pages visited, ranging 7 days to one year. |
The question is: "as you know?"
"Knows" through a toolbar (toolbar) install IE or firefox with extensions such as " SearchStatus "," Alexa Sparky (official) , "and other more , keep in mind that this keeps our record and sends it to them, if you got no problem with that (the time you entered youporn or bank account) may be useful to have it installed.
Basically the "Alexa" intends to put together a ranking of sites, having the world tops, and even country (eg Argentina ).
It is supposed to have installed more than 10,000,000 browsers, with this sample represent a total traffic.
And that knowledge serves a Web traffic?
Well simple monkey!, Is to assess the site in question, although it is obvious that Alexa is not accurate, given some parameter value of the site.
So that's the theory but in practice I read in several places about how unrealistic that is, reasons:
- It's about browsers, not computer / device.
- Most people who have installed the Alexa toolbar, this "stuck" in technology (ie pages difficult to train kitchen or gym equipment
) - The vast majority are Anglo, therefore figures are not entirely valid. For non-Anglo market in Spain is not typically used to evaluate a site.
An interesting link: " 10 Things You Should Know About Alexa "
As additional data, Alexa was born in 1996 and was bought by Amazon in 1999.
Chup.
All the "what the hell" are very clear. I found wandering around the web and I were very helpful. Thanks