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Traffic and Alexa rank shoots up this month

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:11 pm
by brian

Re: Traffic and Alexa rank shoots up this month

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:22 pm
by stingrey
Well the spike also occurs for other CMS sites:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traff ... er.com#top

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traff ... al.org#top

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traff ... ps.org#top


So who knows.  Maybe they are using a different calculation algorithmn.

Re: Traffic and Alexa rank shoots up this month

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:24 pm
by brian
very wierd.

Perhaps as Alexa is calculated based on people having their toolbar installed there has just been a big increase in the number of users.

Re: Traffic and Alexa rank shoots up this month

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:27 pm
by mediamagnate
Maybe, scrapers collecting for commercial exploitation?

Who knows.

They say there is money to be made by using other people's intellectual property.

:)

Re: Traffic and Alexa rank shoots up this month

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:30 pm
by brian
lost me there

Re: Traffic and Alexa rank shoots up this month

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:59 pm
by Rochen
The various Joomla sites did just under 14 million page views last month and many many more hits than that. We will be getting full stats for last month and this month over to Peter at the start of May for further review :)

- Chris

Re: Traffic and Alexa rank shoots up this month

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:18 pm
by brian
of course if there was an apache logs component for joomla it would all be so muh easier for us all to see  :P

Re: Traffic and Alexa rank shoots up this month

Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 12:23 pm
by Ben_S
Rochen wrote:The various Joomla sites did just under 14 million page views last month and many many more hits than that. We will be getting full stats for last month and this month over to Peter at the start of May for further review :)


You may be interested to know that for some reason awstats and webalizer seem to count avatars that are accessed though index.php such as http://forum.joomla.org/index.php?actio ... ype=avatar as seperate page views rather than just hits even when being requested from a topic page.

Re: Traffic and Alexa rank shoots up this month

Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 7:51 pm
by brian
Can someone confirm this please as it will explain alot of wierd stats i am seeing

Re: Traffic and Alexa rank shoots up this month

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 12:48 am
by compass
They say there is money to be made by using other people's intellectual property.


That *was* a kinda random comment.

Anyway, I read somewhere that Alexa is prone to spikes every now and again. Trouble is I cant remember why it was or where I saw it :)

Re: Traffic and Alexa rank shoots up this month

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:45 pm
by mediamagnate
If it's not been discussed earlier, I apologise ... but I see that the old Alexa Google relationship has been replaced by a Alexa MSN search engine results now.

Perhaps this is the clue we've been looking for.