There is really no good reason to retire Alexa
We will be retiring Alexa.com
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#82If you wish, you can download some of the top 1m records from their s3
curl http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip --output ~/Downloads/alexa.zip
Today it contains the top 630779 records.
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#83anyone remember alexadex, a website stockmarket (using fake money) that took alexa's site rankings as the website's price? so many hours spent...
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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.
I know it's not perfect, but if you use Amazon's Alexa and know an Alexa you can change the wake phrase to a few others (iirc "echo" and "amazon" are among the choices).
Our wake word is "amazon", lest we forget a major corporation is listening in to our conversations about who left the fridge open and whether we need to wear a raincoat today.
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#85Wow this is something where Amazon wants to kill a service for no apparent reason. Maybe to use the domain for their Alexa AI instead? Otherwise to restrict information on the internet.
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#86Wow, 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…
> Alexa is my go-to place to get a first impression on how much traffic a website gets.
Alexa hasn't been a reliable source of traffic data for many years. It's gotten worse as mobile devices, private browsers, VPNs, and tight-fisted companies (like Facebook) have become more widespread.
If you own a high-traffic site and check Alexa, it's not even close. One of my sites wasn't in the order of magnitude.
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Cloudflare has Radar: https://radar.cloudflare.com/
I don't understand how apple.com can rank over youtube.com? In what way is apple a daily service that people must access? I guess some apple service that I don't use like music?
Cloudflare only has access to DNS requests made to their resolvers, not the amount of bandwidth utilized (which would certainly push Netflix and YouTube up) or the number of requests made. They also have some vaguely defined fudge factors to their rankings.
To take a guess at why Apple is so high, I think bundling all of these together might help their rank:
- App store downloads
- iOS updates
- Apple TV+ streaming
- Services that iOS / tvOS / macOS devices utilize
- Apple Music / iTunes downloads
- iCloud (including Private Relay and related traffic)
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#88Damn nothing lasts for ever I guess
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How does Alexa work? It seems to me it’s hard for anyone except Google Analytics or Cloudflare to build such a service.
Initially, it was mostly by monitoring the traffic of users of the alexa toolbar, https://www.alexa.com/toolbar I think they moved on to more broad data sources, possibly purchasing data from ISPs.
Read between the lines as to how this similar product from Cisco works.
http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/umbrella-static/index.html
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#90Did they announce this today? Seems pretty shitty to disable APIs the same day as the announcement.