Site Seeing: Alexa

- This is one of the most popular and top sites in Internet.

- It is a website ranking site.

- Many websites/advertisers rely on alexa to determine the popularity of a site.

- It is believed that unless a code is put in a particular website it is impossible to trace the number of visits it gets.

But amazingly Alexa is able to trace out the web statistics of a site and rank it. Some still argue that these statistics are incorrect.

- One of the aims of website owners is to have a good Alexa rank. In recent times it has become very much popular and is acting as key driving

force for advertisers in their investments.

- It is also exciting to know the top 100 sites in the world and in India.

- It lists the page views per day for a site if it is in top 1,00,000

It lists in Millions. It is one of the ways to determine how much traffic a site gets.

For example based on the alexa statistics I could notice that on an average the following sites get the corresponding traffic per day:

google.com –> 30 Million ( 3 Crores)

orkut.com –> 3 Million (30 Lakhs)

idlebrain.com –> 60,000

greatandhra.com –> 50,000

cinegoer.com –> 15,000

telugucinema.com –> 12,000

oniondosa.net –> 3000

sunitablogs.com –> 1800

- It is a nice play ground for all the curious people who wanna know the performances of their favorite/own sites.