What Does An Alexa Rating Mean?
Your Alexa rating is a handy and useful way to gauge how much traffic you are receiving on your sites. Alexa dot com tries to measure how much traffic all sites get in relation to each other. As an example they now rank Google as number one, followed by Yahoo, Facebook, and Youtube. However Alexa does not just rank the top sites, it gives ratings out into the millions as well. So every single site online is measured by Alexa, and ranked according to total traffic.
It appears to be inaccurate for sites over about 5,000,000. As an example, I have seen many new sites online, and seen their initial Alexa ratings range anywhere from 8,000,000 to 22,000,000. So the numbers at this range are probably meaningless.
They state that it’s most accurate for the top 100,000 sites online. After that, while accuracy goes down, it’s still a handy gauge. For example, there’s a big difference between a site that shows a 250,000 Alexa rating and one that shows 6,000,000!
By installing a tool like search status on your browser, you can instantly see the Alexa ratings (and other great information) on every site you ever visit. This gives you “x-ray vision†into the internet, and can help you avoid making mistakes. For example, have you ever seen a site that advertised how you could get tons of traffic to your site for XX$ a month. Well my suggestion is to go to Alexa and see how their sales pages rank on Alexa. You will very likely be surprised at how high some of these sites are ranked. Remember anything over a million gets very little traffic.
Over 1,000,000: Very little traffic.
500,000-1,000,000 Not bad, maybe even making some money if it’s a commerce site.
250,000-500,000 A respectable amount of traffic
100,000-250,000 Good traffic. Sites in this range can be considered successful.
20,000-100,000 Extremely good. Alexa takes you very seriously once you are in the top 100,000 of all sites online.
1,000-20,000 Ultra successful. Time to quit your day job.
1-1,000 Time to sell for millions, maybe billions.
I hope you will find this information useful!
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