What the hell is Alexa?
 | 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, visits, pages visited, ranging 7 days to one year. |
The question is: "How do you know?"
The "know" through a toolbar (toolbar) installable in 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 you have it installed.
Basically the "Alexa" is intended to build a site ranking, taking 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 traffic from a web?
Very simple monkey!, Is to assess the site in question, although it is obvious that Alexa is not accurate, given certain parameter value of the site.
So that's the theory but in practice I read on various sites about what is real little, reasons:
- It's about browsers, not computer / device.
- Most people who have installed the Alexa toolbar, this "stuck" in technology (ie pages hardly enter kitchen or gym equipment
) - The vast majority are white, therefore figures are not entirely valid. For non-Anglo markets in Spain do not often use 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 floating around the web and I were very helpful. Thanks