How does Alexa rank a site?

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Hi i am just wondering how Alexa ranks a site, e.g what kind of statistical data it takes into account. I noticed that my site dropped from 3.6 million - 1.6 million post new Google updates. However, i noticed when i woke up today the ranked dropped from 1.6 million to 860,000. However, after the past 12 hours the rank has dropped again from 860,000 to 750,000. Like i am not complain but it just seems a little bit strange to drop 100,000 Alexa places in a space of 12 hours unless the has been a mass website genocide.
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  • From the Alexa website, "Alexa computes traffic rankings by analyzing the Web usage of millions of Alexa Toolbar users and data obtained from other, diverse traffic data sources. The information is sorted, sifted, annoyed, counted, and computed, until, finally, we get the traffic rankings shown in the Alexa service."
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    • I am in the computer repair business and I do not remember ever seeing a customers computer with an alexa toolbar. Now a google toolbar is another story.
      I was just wondering this same question today.
      Ed
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      "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you" ...
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  • lol...not even Alexa can explain it. It's kind of like they take the number of toolbar viewers and extrapolate [guesstimate] what that must mean across the span of all traffic on the Internet.

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    They may do a little dance around a small chicken, three times while saying "wugga wugga wugga" then if the chicken pecks some corn, and it's Friday, they multiply how much corn was pecked by Pi and divide by 4.
  • Yes, i think even they didn´t know how they rank
  • Alexa rank is nothing... Just Concentrate on the Direct traffic Coming to your Site, On Google Rank And Page Rank Matters.
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    How does Alexa rank a site?

    Hi i am just wondering how Alexa ranks a site, e.g what kind of statistical data it takes into account. I noticed that my site dropped from 3.6 million - 1.6 million post new Google updates. However, i noticed when i woke up today the ranked dropped from 1.6 million to 860,000. However, after the past 12 hours the rank has dropped again from 860,000 to 750,000. Like i am not complain but it just seems a little bit strange to drop 100,000 Alexa places in a space of 12 hours unless the has been a mass website genocide.