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I posted a link to it in my first post: http://download.alexa.com/. It's similar to Google's toolbar, only it tracks where surfers go and creates a top list from it. Right now I can see that GFY is the 1,232nd most visited site on the Internet (according to the toolbar which is known to be biased towards the companies associated with it and many other things. One example is that only certain types of surfers will ever install a third party toolbar. Another example is if you are the sole visitor to your homepage, and you have an Alexa toolbar installed, then you are representing more than just one Internet surfer; you are representing the amount of Alexa toolbar users divided by the amount of surfers on the net. This means your hompage will be ranked higher than normal. This is why the rankings are only accurate for sites ranked 100,000th and below, due to greater volume of traffic and thus greater accurate of ranking.)


I have to disagree. Some very very very small sites have traffic ranks from that toolbar, which means there's a lot of users using it.