Laura Hale, 30/05/2011 21:35:
Alexa statstics can be easily manipulated to a degree.
The discrepancy
could be as simple as having one or two users from Russia who have the
Alexa toolbar installed from Russia who visit regularly every day,
whereas the americans who visit don't have Alexa installed. (Because
the population that tends to have the Alexa toolbar installed tends to
be relatively self selecting in terms of certain industries.)
Alexa data should always be taken with a huge grain of salt. I was able
to push my own site up to the 2,500th most popular site in Australia
meerly by visiting it every day.
+1
René König, 30/05/2011 20:26:
On the other hand, according to Wikimedia stats, the
English Wikiversity
site has much more Views/hr (4,068) than the Russian one (271)
Wikimedia page view stats are not approximate; this simply proves that
Alexa is wrong.
Nemo