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Huh I had no idea Amazon owned this Alexa. Must have been confusing having two entirely separate services called Alexa.
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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.
They used to have its own toolbar that tracked which websites users visit. After that, they've paid other browser add-ons to add their script and some websites voluntarily gave them their data by adding their tracker. It says so right on the about page (warning: unusable on mobile): https://www.alexa.com/about
Ah, the good old days.
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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.
Damn, with that data TikTok.com is ranked #1 O_O
Quickly looked them up, some sort of anti-fraud company, working with TikTok apparently. There website doesn't load for me, I'm wondering if they are target of DDOS attack which might actually move them up the rankings haha
Are there any alternatives? I enjoy watching the long-term decline of the websites of former employers I don't like.
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…
Right, this is a problem with all sorts of data sources that provide numbers (and use lots of SEO) but don't talk much about their methodology. CelebrityNetWorth is another example of this.
Is there an anternative to the ranking? I don't know if sucs thing exist since everywhere I saw people keep mentioning alexa ranking...
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Damn, with that data TikTok.com is ranked #1 O_O
Also interesting doubleverify.com is ranked 14th, the first I did not hear of. Quickly looked them up, some sort of anti-fraud company, working with TikTok apparently. There website doesn't load for me, I'm wondering if they are target of DDOS attack which might actually move them up the rankings haha
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.