Is there an anternative to the ranking? I don't know if sucs thing exist since everywhere I saw people keep mentioning alexa ranking...
Majestic is the first one that comes to mind.
We will be retiring Alexa.com
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
In essense, what the original Alexa did seems to have been internalized into Amazon ads (or their b2b analytics division), which is coincidently the fastest growing part of Amazon. Wonder why they used the Alexa name for their home assistant.
Short, international, neutral name, somewhat easy to pronounce in many languages.
It's also phonetically recognizable and distinct.
It's one of the reasons you have to say "Hey Google" or "Hey Siri", but you're able to just say "Alexa"
I find Siri the worst one for that, it often triggers on "serious".
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#13I imagine today is a great day to be working at SimilarWeb. When I did SEO related research, these two were my go to for determining how popular a website was.
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#14Wow, that is a bummer!
Alexa is my go-to place to get a first impression on how much traffic a website gets.
I have never looked into how they get their data, I always assumed they get it from internet providers?
Is there an alternative? SimilarWeb publishes their data with a huge delay, so it is not of much use for me. From my experience, it is also less reliable.
It is crazy how valuable internet properties get closed down when they are owned by giant companies. According to Alexa, Alexa is still a top-5000 site:
https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/alexa.com
It seems insane to just close it down.
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#15That's a real bummer. I use the alexa rankings all the time. I get the reasons, especially w/ the name specifically.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Short, international, neutral name, somewhat easy to pronounce in many languages.
It's also phonetically recognizable and distinct. It's one of the reasons you have to say "Hey Google" or "Hey Siri", but you're able to just say "Alexa" I find Siri the worst one for that, it often triggers on "serious".
If our Google Home triggers accidentally its usually easy to think back on what we said and find the offending phrase. Siri, on the other hand, seems to trigger several times a day without any explanation.
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#17Damn, that headline had me very excited right up until the ".com" at the end.
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#18That Amazon kept a site named Alexa with absolutely nothing to do with that Alexa alive for this long is quite impressive.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Short, international, neutral name, somewhat easy to pronounce in many languages.
It's also phonetically recognizable and distinct. It's one of the reasons you have to say "Hey Google" or "Hey Siri", but you're able to just say "Alexa" I find Siri the worst one for that, it often triggers on "serious".
Except that when my business partner and I are talking to each other about Alexa, we have to refer to it indirectly, e.g. "the A-lady", to avoid triggering his Alexa devices (I don't normally have one active).
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#20Site is NXDOMAIN. The page itself is not in the Wayback Machine. Alternate link?
Your resolver broken. opcode QUERY rcode NOERROR flags QR RD RA ;QUESTION alexa.com. IN A ;ANSWER alexa.com. 59 IN A 13.249.109.63 alexa.com. 59 IN A 13.249.109.113 alexa.com. 59 IN A 13.249.109.43
Ah. Probably my router's adblock.
I can resolve the host directly querying 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 resolvers.
Not broken so much as working as configured ;-)