[Wikipedia-l] Re: Slashdot

[Jimmy Wales]

Tim Starling wrote:
> According to Alexa we now get as much traffic as Slashdot.

I believe that you are mistaken.  I see their traffic rank as 845, and
ours as 2,140.

I used to have access to the MediaMetrix numbers, which were
considered at the time industry standard.  (Might still be, but since
the dot-com crash, I don't fantasize about selling Bomis for billions
anymore, so I don't worry about such things!)

Anyhow, my research at the time suggested that for every *doubling* of
traffic, you generally *halve* your rank.  That's a rough rule of
thumb, but it held remarkably well.

That is, a site ranked 500 has twice the traffic of a site ranked
1000.  And a site ranked 845 has twice the traffic of a site ranked
1690.  If we are 2,140 and they are 845, then they have more than
twice the traffic that we have.

(Actually I see now that the rank that they show is some kind of
moving average, and that according to this url, our traffic just
recently touched theirs.  I'm skeptical, but we do rock.)

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=medium&compare_sites=slashdot.org&url=http://www.wikipedia.org#top

--Jimbo