Posts Tagged ‘web-stats’

Tool Time Friday | PopURI

Continuing on with our series of page ranking – here’s another site which I visited and found informative, easy to use as well as understand.

popuri.us, “A tool to check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more!”

Remember that a domain with the “www.” prefix will show different results than the same domain without it. You should try both.

MorganLighter

Spillover Saturdays | Catch Up Alexa and other Web Page View Dependents

I used to pride myself on my Alexa ranking. Of course, as I always stress, it’s only a comparitive tool. The best it can do is tell you the approximate Nielsen-type rating of your site, skewed sharply towards webmasters.

But still.

Most of my rank used to come from page views to my site. But then I switched back to full feeds – a lot of you never click through to the site anymore. (And I missess yawl! Make a comment. I’m a lonely girl who can’t leave the house until she’s better. Be my friend? Please?)

So seeing Alexa tell me that I’d dropped out of the top 100,000 until earlier this week confused me, especially since the site traffic overall hasn’t been this high since last June.

But this really isn’t all about me. This is about the decline of the page view.

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