On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 6:20 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Sue Gardner wrote: >> On 9 April 2011 01:14, Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> May someone update manual in which it is written that Wikipedia is the >>> fifth site by traffic? For the most of 2010 and whole 2011 it has varied >>> between 6th and 8th place [1].
comScore, Alexa, &c use different methods. comScore is not perfect, and has known biases in its coverage, but it is a bit better than Alexa in that regard. (We used to rely on Alexa data and moved away from it) I would love better data - if you have a better source, or a better way to describe the data from multiple sources, that would be a great reason to update our public docs. But just replacing comScore cites with Alexa cites won't be an improvement. MZM writes: >> The top five websites as measured by comScore global unique visitors, << are: Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, Wikimedia. > > As far as I understand this, that would mean that saying "Wikipedia is the > fifth most visited website" is still completely wrong, as the comScore data > is an aggregate of the various Wikimedia wikis. Those are all aggregates of multiple projects. Most of the others use a single TLD but they aren't single 'sites'. [for SEO purposes, we would probably do better if every project shared the same TLD the way Google's do, but that's another thread.] SJ -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
