How the FUCK does Alexa.com know how much traffic I get?
 

I don't know how it works, but it's cool.

B

it's calculated by the amount of people who have Alexa installed and visit your site

They don't know, they jsut guess

aren't FAQs simply marvelous?

There's an interesting thread over at webmasterworld.com, in the tracking and logging forum. Search for Alexa...

They don't know its not accurate at all.
Cindy xx

they're watching you, they know where you live, they know what you do. You can run but you can't hide.

:Graucho

Thanks to everybody who gave a useful answer!

B :D

Alexa is pretty accurate, for about 80% of all sites. Not door-nail accurate, but it's not off by much.

i know a company that managed to get high rank for their dating site by tricking alexa in order to gain more advertisers :-)

Example of how it isnt accurate all the time.

Thehun gets over 1.5million unique visitors a day its ranked at like 1200

consumptionjunction gets over 200k uniques a day and is ranked at around 680.


Something wrong there?

I don't think Alexa is highly accurate, it is gives a general idea, thats all.

alexa ranking means fuck all.

it's useful as a rule of thumb,

eg. a site bewteen 0 and say 50,000 gets say lots of traffic, 50,000-200,000, average, 200,000+, low volume...so you can tell very generally

How many people do YOU know that surf with Alexa browser installed? Bueller? Bueller????

uhm thehun has his traffic spread out over 2-3 domains