Hmm... 11/12/17 is my order, too. On the graph (again) Wikipedia is better then myspace (6), sina (7) and yahoo.co.jp (9); which seems that it is the same as I said before... (In one moment today I saw 11/12/16.)

Whatever... Wikipedia will be in the top ten during this year :)

On 10/15/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:

Milos Rancic wrote:

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http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?compare_sites=myspace.com+...

"Today" Wikipedia is on 11th place, one week place is 12th and three months place is 16-17th.

But, according to the graphs, Wikipedia is on 8th place. Wikipedia is better then myspace.com (6th place), sina.com.cn (7th place) and yahoo.co.jp (9th place), but live.com (8th place) and youtube.com (10th place) are better then Wikipedia.

According to what I see,

On the text, WP is 11 today, 12 this week, 17 on 3 months On the graph, it is 11 My space is 5 Sina com 10 and yahoo japan 14

Now... this is getting crazy, right ?

11...

ant

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On 15/10/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:

Look, Alexa is a hopeless indicator of traffic. It only tracks people with the Alexa toolbar installed, which is a very small and biased portion of all internet users; for a start, it excludes all schools and universities - because they're not going to have the Alexa toolbar installed - which is presumably where a lot of our traffic comes from.

While it's hard to question that Alexa numbers are not very useful, I don't know of another chart listing that anyone even uses or has heard of, let alone that has better methodology. So until then, Alexa ratings are what we have. Though I'm open to suggestions.

(It's like using Billboard ratings from the '70s and '80s for US record sales - they were basically a lie, as mainstream radio play was a vast component. So, e.g., "Planet Rock" could sell 750,000 copies and not rate at all. I'm sure Alexa has similar egregious anomalies.)

- d.