Thanks everyone! I knew that one should be careful with Alexa but I didn´t expect it could be THAT wrong. It´s a pity because otherwise it could be a convenient and interesting tool. The next question is: is this rather an exception or is Alexa in general not reliable? Maybe I shouldn´t use it for academic papers at all. Best,
René Am 31.05.2011 08:57, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo): > 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 _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
