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Re: We will be retiring Alexa.com

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Is there an anternative to the ranking? I don't know if sucs thing exist since everywhere I saw people keep mentioning alexa ranking...

8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 must provide great data. It's not publicly available though.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/privacy/public-dns... (CloudFlare stores aggregated data)

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy (well, it's Google)

Re: We will be retiring Alexa.com

#23
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Earlier 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 been a popular name for decades, http://www.ourbabynamer.com/Alexa-name-popularity.html.

IMO, picking one of the most common US names for a voice assistant and then skipping the wake up phrase is dumb.

Re: We will be retiring Alexa.com

#24

Wow, 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 clo…

How does Alexa work? It seems to me it’s hard for anyone except Google Analytics or Cloudflare to build such a service.

Re: We will be retiring Alexa.com

#25
They get data from Alexa Toolbar to get estimated metrics and for certificated insights you have to pay for the service and install a script or plugin in case you have WordPress. This is so unfortunate and sad... This is such a good tool, what will you guys be using instead of alexa.com, similar web? semrush? moz? none of them are as good as our beloved alexa internet.

Re: We will be retiring Alexa.com

#29

Wow, 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 clo…

I've loaded in Alexa, Majestic, Cisco DNS, and Tranco rankings into this site:

https://domain.glass/ycombinator.com#dns_rank

Not the prettiest, but I use it a fair amount myself for researching domains.

Re: We will be retiring Alexa.com

#30

Wow, 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 clo…

How does Alexa work? It seems to me it’s hard for anyone except Google Analytics or Cloudflare to build such a service.

Handwavey "proprietary methodology" using data from "millions of Internet users using one of many different browser extensions" and "direct sources in the form of sites that have chosen to install the Alexa script."[0]

Translation: trust us

[0] https://www.alexa.com/about

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