2009/4/21 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>om>:
2009/4/21 Ian Woollard
<ian.woollard(a)gmail.com>om>:
Presumably the wikipedia can find out what
proportion of its traffic
actually comes from China, and compare that with the Alexa statistics.
If they're close then it gives some evidence that Alexa have enough
toolbars out in the wild in China to give reasonable accuracy.
Yes, that would work. Or, perhaps more easily, we could compare the
page views per subdomain with the percentages given by Alexa. Are
those numbers available anywhere?
I don't think there's a handy figure available, but you could probably
get a quick-and-dirty first-order comparison using the viewing figures
for a single high-profile target like the frontpage. Using this
metric, hmm:
en.wp [[Main Page]] - 192870187 in March
en.wp [[Special:Search]] - 474835986 in March
zh.wp [[Wikipedia:首页]] - 925156 in March
zh.wp [[Special:Search]] - 1254441 in March
ratio of pageviews for the main page, ~ 210:1 in favour of enwp; for
search, 380:1 in favour of enwp.
So this would suggest that zhwp, at a very rough estimate, gets about
0.5% to 0.25% of the traffic that enwp does.
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