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A good, healthy rant against Alexa stats...

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

Monday, July 23, 2007
17 years ago3,021 views

... by CmdrTaco of Slashdot:

http://slashdot.org/articles/07/07/23/152243.shtml

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Alexa stats aren't very reliable, that's for sure. But is there anything better that's readily available? If not, people are going to continue to "rely" on Alexa.

As the old proverb says, "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush".

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

http://compete.com ?

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

If there was a common piece of code written by Google Analytics which everyone used which tracked all these things, You could get acurate data for a lot of sites

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Roger, Alexa stats do more harm than good, so I think if people wouldn't use it it'd be better than them not using anything at all. (I compared it to drinking salt water when you're lost out on the sea, and really thirsty...)

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

<<I compared it to drinking salt water when you're lost out on the sea, and really thirsty...>>

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