Alexa Stats on kintespace.com and Related Webs
So my vast experience with television demands that I regard Alexa data as Nielsen data. This may not be correct as the following quote from “About the Alexa Traffic Rankings” suggests:
The traffic data are based on the set of Alexa users, which may not be a representative sample of the global Internet population.
The “Alexa users” use a toolbar application that would be equivalent of the Nielson device attached to the TV set. As of 2002, Alexa tracked about 11.2 million unique Webs. There known and unknown biases to seriously consider but with that aside let’s make a few certain statements about Alexa data with respect to kintespace.com:* www.libradio.com in ranked in the top half million of Alexa webs. This places LIB Radio in the stratosphere with respect to kintespace.com! These numbers make us even more privileged to host LIB Radio content, our samplers, including “LIBRadio Sampler: Three Sons of Africa” and “LIBRadio Sampler: Divine Conversations.”
- Alexa-tracked Webs created around a single personality like www.laurence-fishburne.com or www.ursula-rucker.com are not that ‘popular’ compared to sites based on multiple personalities (so-called community sites) like www.ctadams.com and, yes, kintespace.com.
- Alexa data show people ‘wandering incoherently’ into/out of kintespace.com while www.ctadams.com, the home of Mr. Africa Poetry Lounge, enjoys a coherent context. The Alexa data for Mr. Africa Poetry Lounge show people also visiting www.Timbuktu.com, www.thenups.com, www.nubianpoets.com, www.literatenubian.com, etc. The assumption here is that this evidence appears because, according to our internal stats, most people find kintespace.com through search engines.
- kintespace.com is ranked among the top two million of Alexa Webs. Mr. Africa Poetry Lounge is in the top one million. And I am pleased to report that DefPoetryJam.com is way down in the top four million because, as of January 2006, this site is just a big “coming soon” page. Whew! Recording this data in this journal will make a handy reference when we actually begin to actively promote kintespace.com in the bricks and mortar world in the near future “coming soon.” Oh, and by the way, a quote from a frequently-asked Alex question:
Traffic Rankings of 100,000+ should be regarded as not reliable because the amount of data we receive is not statistically significant. Conversely, the more traffic a site receives (the closer it gets to the number 1 position), the more reliable its Traffic Ranking becomes.
For those of “us” who enjoy life in the Alexa 100,000 club, “Alexa improved” by Joe Walker should be of interest.