Replies to post #16386 on The Question and Answer Board (IHUB)

[Mattu]

SI posting stats:

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[Mattu]

Somebody told me Bobz.com closed down. Not sure of the reason, though.

[Rick Faurot]

That sixty second Doubleclick popup ad is back. Didn't you say they told you they'd stop the popups?

[AKvetch]

Re pop-up ads. As a subscriber I don't see the ads, but several times today I had iHub pages that did not load in a timely manner. Could this have to do with the ads? Not enough of a bother to even mention it, except if ads are stalling out your system. FWIW.

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

Alexa Rankings:

CNBC: 24816 (down from 24361)
iHub: 14144 (up from 14401)
Stockhouse: 6690 (down from 6653)
SI: 4283 (down from 4235)
NYSE: 3810 (down from 3802)
MotleyFool: 905 (down from 884)
Nasdaq: 474 (down from 473)
WSJ: 441 (down from 439)

Pretty decent jump for iHub (up 1.8%), but I don't expect that to continue. The new Alexa 6.5 is horribly slow at times and one of the things that's appealing about iHub is speed, so I expect I'm not the only user here turning off Alexa. Might be fewer SI users turning it off than iHub users.

We'll get a sizable pop down the road from Zeev and company making the move, but not sure when that'll show up. We've seen an 88% increase in daily posting volume in the 48 days since, while SI has seen a 6.5% increase in the same time, and more posts to read means more reads happening, so Alexa will reflect that before too long.