Alexa Announces “New” (Better?) Rankings
This morning I noticed the Alexa ranking on ArticlesBase.com go from 12,000 to around 8,000 in one day.
I found this quite strange at first as I hadn’t noticed such an increase in traffic.
Then I noticed this nice button:
Alexia explains the difference in numbers:
Your ranking wasn’t wrong before, but it was different. Alexa toolbar users’ interests and surfing habits could differ from those of the general population in a number of ways, and we described some of those possible differences on our website. While the vast majority of sites’ rankings were unaffected by such differences, we’ve worked hard on our new ranking system to adjust for situations in which they could matter. The new rankings should better reflect the interests and surfing habits of the broader population of Web users.
So does this mean they are trying to take on compete ?
Personally no one for the last 2 years has taken the Alexa ranking seriously anyway.
You can also read Techcrunch coverage of the story.
