Right... it's actually hard to infer anything from "traffic," as Sunir
was hinting.
Semantics aside, Alexa's "reach" chart (which I guess is supposed to
be the number of people out of a million random Internet users who
visit the site) is revealing a downward trend across a lot of major
sites in the past two weeks, which I think is an amusing bit of
information if it has anything to do with a major sporting event. :-)
andrea
On 6/20/06, Mathias Schindler <neubau(a)presroi.de> wrote:
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Betreff: [Wiki-research-l] traffic suddenly down on Wikipedia?
Gesendet: Tue, 20. Jun 2006
Von: "Andrea Forte" <andrea.forte(a)gmail.com>
Does anyone know of an explanation for the sudden
drop in traffic on
Wikipedia these past couple weeks? I just happened to notice because
I'm writing a paper and needed the lastest alexa ranking.
See:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=&size=larg…
_sites=&y=r&url=www.wikipedia.com
Alexa's data is made from undisclosed sources and they seem to update their algorithm
and weighting factors seamingless in their graphs.
Leon Weber has released the traffic stats on the Wikimedia Toolserver:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~leon/stats/trafstats/trafficstats-yearly.png
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~leon/stats/reqstats/reqstats-yearly.png
Mathias
By the way: The alexa figure you were referring to has nothing to do with
"traffic" per se.
