2009/4/21 Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com:
So far as I can tell from percentage breakdowns by country in Alexa, the Chinese go to hudong and zh.wikipedia.org equally often- virtually the same number of page hits. However, hudong ranks 112 and wikipedia.org ranks 66 in China, which tells you that a lot of people are reading the other languages more than Chinese.
I seriously doubt that Alexa rankings at all meaningful for Chinese page views. I'm not sure if it is still the case, but I seem to recall that at some point the Alexa toolbar was only available in English, that would explain why wikipedia.org does better - people that don't speak good English are more likely to use the Chinese sites and less likely to use the Alexa toolbar.