Alexa Now Ranks This Website Higher…

Until recently, I had not paid much attention to Alexa and its website ranking system after I had discovered that it was one of the bandwidth-hogging culprits that had permanently brought down the now-defunct RDL National Website Index search engine I created more than a decade ago. However, sometime early this January I started to keep on eye on my website’s Alexa ranking, noting some interesting numbers.

  • In January 2008, this website’s three-month global ranking was at about #979,000, which means that almost a million other websites were more popular than this website, an understandable finding. But that number was still much lower than I expected.
  • Based on the traffic patterns just from the last week, this website is now ranked at #174,103, quite the insane rise! The three-month average still shows #625,864.
  • Among users in Monaco, the world’s smallest French-speaking country, this website is ranked #6,722. Why the heck were so many from that tiny nation visiting here?!
  • More interesting countries (and their respective ranks): Tunisia (#64,807), Saudi Arabia (#82,004), United States (#87,183), France (#251,949), United Kingdom (#434,073), and Canada (#800,416)
  • Almost 42% of all visitors originate within the United States.
  • Three months ago, 0.00009% of the world’s Internet users visited this website. This week saw that number more than triple to 0.00030%.
  • In comparison, some of my other small websites (and their three-month rankings): randomstupidstuff.com (#5,189,868), lecour.net (#5,275,172), my personal blogs (#5,879,009), georocks.us (no rank)

It’s amazing how much information is out there. Your every move, every click, every email is being monitored by someone, somewhere — and all that sensitive information is likely to be sold to the highest bidder. Or at least leaked back onto the Internet.

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This rambling was posted on February 8, 2008
and filed under Website Analytics

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2 Responses to “Alexa Now Ranks This Website Higher…”

  1. Response #1
    richard on February 16th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

    Alexa Ranking for 2008-02-16Incredibly, Richard’s Ramblings has hit just a new milestone, attaining an Alexa traffic ranking well within the top 100,000 of all measured websites worldwide — at least for yesterday.

    I’d like to thank the Academy, WordPress, Google, Amazon, Craigslist, my agent, my wife, my children, and my Mom and Dad. And a very special “Thank You” to Anna for providing a reason for the recent spike in traffic:

    #82,703!

  2. Response #2
    richard on March 10th, 2008 at 5:13 pm

    Due to the release of a couple WordPress plugins this week, the news of which hit the official WordPress RSS feed (and thus appeared on every WordPress administrator’s dashboard), Richard’s Ramblings worldwide ranking spiked to a new all-time high yesterday:

    #65,505!

    The traffic spike was, of course, short-lived and I’m now back down around the now-normal #150,000 to #200,000. It seems that the recent enabling of the internal WordPress caching system coupled with the reinstall and reintegration of the Plugin Output Cache plugin helped the site get through the brief spike. Curious what will ever happen if a page gets Dugg, SlashDotted, or StumbledUpon. I’m thinking about using the SuperCache plugin as well. No such thing as too much cache!

    To put the ranking into some meaningful perspective, I’ve picked a few random websites and looked up their worldwide rankings as determined by Alexa:

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