Laura Hale, 30/05/2011 21:35: > Alexa statstics can be easily manipulated to a degree. The discrepancy > could be as simple as having one or two users from Russia who have the > Alexa toolbar installed from Russia who visit regularly every day, > whereas the americans who visit don't have Alexa installed. (Because > the population that tends to have the Alexa toolbar installed tends to > be relatively self selecting in terms of certain industries.) > > Alexa data should always be taken with a huge grain of salt. I was able > to push my own site up to the 2,500th most popular site in Australia > meerly by visiting it every day.
+1 René König, 30/05/2011 20:26: > On the other hand, according to Wikimedia stats, the English Wikiversity > site has much more Views/hr (4,068) than the Russian one (271) Wikimedia page view stats are not approximate; this simply proves that Alexa is wrong. Nemo _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
