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Re: Fortrav post# 53645

Wednesday, 11/05/2014 9:34:47 AM

Wednesday, November 05, 2014 9:34:47 AM

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I would be more relaxed if the reported traffic matched the Alexa rank. We all know Alexa shows estimated rank based off some metric but not visitors... Look at quantcast.com - they have imbedded trackers for the reported sites and their traffic data is directly measured, independently verified, and not an estimate. Basically, their traffic data is correct. Here are some sites that report the last known number of hits/month of Gander.tv per Chris in his radio interview of 16M+

nytimes.com - 15.1M Visitors/month
Alexa Rank Global #108, US #29

att.com - 15.2M Visitors/month
Alexa Rank Global #364, US #71

photobucket.com - 15.8M
Alexa Rank Global #289, US #223


And then we have gander.tv with the same traffic numbers ranked at 328,000 globally.

If someone can explain that, I'll relax. Otherwise, it's fair to be on point. And I realize that alexa is using a lot more metrics than traffic to rank websites, but the disparity is shockingly large. If I ran a full statistical analysis, I'd image the standard deviation to be roughly +- 5000 in global rank for given traffic. That puts us WELL outside of the curve. Doesn't add up.