Has Your Alexa Rank Gone South Recently?

Everton | Jul 26, 2007 | View Comments


Over the last 2 weeks my daily Alexa Traffic Rank has taken a major hit. After getting daily numbers consistently in the 10-14k range for the previous two months, my daily numbers over the last 2 weeks have been 25-40k despite my traffic actually increasing!

How has your Alexa rank performed over the last two weeks?  I have a sneaky feeling that Alexa have changed the way that they calculate traffic ranks.
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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.

  • Thanks for this post. I checked my ranking and I too went south by half. I could not believe it as over recent weeks I have had a steady climb and though I was getting somewhere at last. Nice to know someone else has the same problem.
  • I dont know if it has effected my ranking, but there has been change definitelty and may be its because of the new toobar for firefox.
  • Derrick
    Actually, your rank can go down even if your traffic increases if someone else's traffic increases more. For example, assume there are three sites: foo, bar, and qux. Week 1, foo has 3000 visitors, bar has 2000, and qux has 1000. Thus, they are ranked foo #1, bar #2, qux #3. If week 2, foo and bar each add 10% qux takes off and gets 2500 more, we have foo with 3300, bar with 2200, and qux with 3500. So even though bar has 10% more traffic, it goes from rank 2 to 3.
  • from the past few week my website was getting jumps in order of 25k but this week only 1k jump :(
  • Oddly my daily rank has shot up yet my 3 month average is going down (despite the daily rank now being higher than the 3 month average).

    That is possible....if your daily rank exactly 3 months ago was higher then your 3 month average will fall
  • Oddly my daily rank has shot up yet my 3 month average is going down (despite the daily rank now being higher than the 3 month average).
  • Yeah, I don't know what's going on either but things are certainly getting worse which sucks since at the moment, getting a better Alexa rank is def a priority.
  • I think the official new firefox plugin Spark is showing effect. Maybe blogs with more "Firefox with sparky" readers will get better Alexa ranks...
  • I had lost my rankings due to a hacking attack and now i am getting back on track, would like to test the firefox plugin for sure
  • The new Firefox plugin may be a factor although based on traffic from Firefox users on my blog, I actually would have expected an improvement. I suppose its still to early to tell what the cause is.
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