Comments on: Egg on my face about Alexa stats http://www.contentious.com/2006/03/12/alexas-reach-stats-more-like-stretch/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:39:23 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Weght Loss http://www.contentious.com/2006/03/12/alexas-reach-stats-more-like-stretch/comment-page-1/#comment-69068 Weght Loss Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:45:28 +0000 #comment-69068 The graph says reach per million users not all internet users.So, for every million users, about 58 will see your site. That sounds small, but its probably reasonable? Not always. The graph says reach per million users not all internet users.So, for every million users, about 58 will see your site. That sounds small, but its probably reasonable?

Not always.

]]> By: Lee Roberts http://www.contentious.com/2006/03/12/alexas-reach-stats-more-like-stretch/comment-page-1/#comment-64209 Lee Roberts Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:57:39 +0000 #comment-64209 I found your blog doing some research for a book. Interesting blog chock full of information. Alexa has one other caveat that they fail to mention. The look at the domain with all its possible subdomains as one site. This simply means that Yahoo.com is #1 because of mail., finance., stores., shopping., games., etc. We can ask the one unasked question, why isn't Google #1 if they are the #1 search engine and all the services they offer? I found your blog doing some research for a book. Interesting blog chock full of information.

Alexa has one other caveat that they fail to mention. The look at the domain with all its possible subdomains as one site. This simply means that Yahoo.com is #1 because of mail., finance., stores., shopping., games., etc.

We can ask the one unasked question, why isn’t Google #1 if they are the #1 search engine and all the services they offer?

]]> By: Ethan http://www.contentious.com/2006/03/12/alexas-reach-stats-more-like-stretch/comment-page-1/#comment-64181 Ethan Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:20:48 +0000 #comment-64181 Amy, your analysis of the data is not entirely correct. I have posted deeper analysis <a href="http://www.thevisionthing.com/2006/03/13/contentious-read-by-millions/">here</a> if you are interested. Thanks for digging into this topic. I have been seeing more and more people using Alexa graphs to justify some claim or another and have been skeptical. Now I know why. Amy, your analysis of the data is not entirely correct. I have posted deeper analysis here if you are interested.

Thanks for digging into this topic. I have been seeing more and more people using Alexa graphs to justify some claim or another and have been skeptical. Now I know why.

]]> By: Amy Gahran http://www.contentious.com/2006/03/12/alexas-reach-stats-more-like-stretch/comment-page-1/#comment-64179 Amy Gahran Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:16:10 +0000 #comment-64179 Ok, Ok, I've got egg on my face here. I was thrown by this line: <i>"Reach is typically expressed as the percentage of all Internet users who visit a given site."</i> 58 per million would be reasonable for my blog -- maybe even a bit understated. I'll update the header of this posting to issue a correction. Ok, Ok, I’ve got egg on my face here. I was thrown by this line: “Reach is typically expressed as the percentage of all Internet users who visit a given site.”

58 per million would be reasonable for my blog — maybe even a bit understated.

I’ll update the header of this posting to issue a correction.

]]> By: Tom Foremski http://www.contentious.com/2006/03/12/alexas-reach-stats-more-like-stretch/comment-page-1/#comment-64162 Tom Foremski Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:03:56 +0000 #comment-64162 Amy, You have a reach of 58 out of 1m Alexa bar users--not 58 percent of all web users... It would correlate to about 0.000058 percent of all web users if Alexa were a typical sample--so your blog remains humble (and so does mine :-) Amy, You have a reach of 58 out of 1m Alexa bar users–not 58 percent of all web users… It would correlate to about 0.000058 percent of all web users if Alexa were a typical sample–so your blog remains humble (and so does mine :-)

]]> By: Anup http://www.contentious.com/2006/03/12/alexas-reach-stats-more-like-stretch/comment-page-1/#comment-64144 Anup Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:32:31 +0000 #comment-64144 The graph says reach per million users not all internet users.So, for every million users, about 58 will see your site. That sounds small, but its probably reasonable The graph says reach per million users not all internet users.So, for every million users, about 58 will see your site. That sounds small, but its probably reasonable

]]> By: julien http://www.contentious.com/2006/03/12/alexas-reach-stats-more-like-stretch/comment-page-1/#comment-64058 julien Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:05:17 +0000 #comment-64058 thanks for the info amy. i have to admit, i was pretty surprised when i looked at my stats on that site. it's clearer now why they are the way they are. thanks for the info amy. i have to admit, i was pretty surprised when i looked at my stats on that site. it’s clearer now why they are the way they are.

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