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The High Authority Social Network’s Drama. Alexa Toolbar for Firefox (Official) Yahoo: Lower Page Views Due to AJAX. Yesterday's comScore Media Metrix report, exclaiming that estimates of page views for social networking site MySpace at 38.7 million for the month of November topped those for Yahoo by 600,000, came with some small print that should have generated at least an asterisk beside today's headlines: Yahoo has recently moved to an AJAX-driven page model, which probably reduced the number of complete page refreshes per user.

Web analytics software used by comScore and other services treat "page views" as complete refreshes of an entire page. But Web sites that use more modern approaches to layout have recently adopted Asynchronous JavaScript to enable browsers to refresh select portions of the page when necessary, reducing bandwidth and improving layout. Yahoo is one of the more recent inductees to the roll of sites embracing this technology. "I'm certainly not suggesting we halt progress in the interest of simplicity," Parker concluded in May. Internet usage, internet statistics – how we do it - Hitwise. AGLOCO launches — will pay you to surf the Web. (See our update on this story here.) AGLOCO is a controversial new Stanford-based start-up that wants to pay you to surf the Web, in return for access to your online surfing information.

It launches later today (Monday). It was discovered two weeks ago by Gigaom, which blasted it as a pyramid scheme. It is, Gigaom reported, a reincarnation of the bubble-era AllAdvantage, which PC World at the time said was one the worst sites on the Internet. AllAdvantage folded in 2001, when Web advertising dried up. (Here’s a good description of AllAdvantage.) Gigaom’s report was based on leaked materials. In short, AGLOCO, which stands for “A Global Community” (the company uses caps to refer to itself, despite its lowercase logo) is really a big AllAdvantage sheep in wolf’s clothing.

First, the similarities between the two: The AGLOCO team includes some of the same leaders of AllAdvantage. You win in another way, too: The other 4.25 percentage points AGLOCO keeps for itself accrues to its bottom line. Publications - Web 2.0 Growing Faster Than Online Video, News - Check Page Rank. The Top 100 sites in the Web 2.0 world. (://URLFAN) The Search Marketer’s Guide to Digg - Stuntdubl - SEO Consultant. Rank of major social bookmarking websites (3y) Rank of major social bookmarking sites (1y)

Web2.0 sites traffic at alexaholic. Digging Alexa - how the geek demographic d. Why Alexa Is Worthless « John Chow dot Com. Alexa is a tool that many webmasters and advertisers used to gauge the size of a website. The Alexa ranking is based on a three month running average. The number shown is where a site ranks on the internet. For example, The TechZone has a ranking of 23,005. This mean the site is the 23,005th biggest on the Internet. The main problem with Alexa is its rankings are based on users who have installed the Alexa toolbar onto their browser. When requesting review samples for The TechZone, I have never had a hardware vendor asked me for the site’s Alexa ranking but I have heard from many smaller tech sites that have.

The biggest users of the Alexa ranking are ad sales networks. Today, my blog is the 1,421st biggest site on the internet, with a reach of 1,200! Now I realize I received a ton of visitors in the past few days, but I know for a fact that it did not came remotely close to the traffic level of AnandTech.

I guess I should use this to my advantage. Did you enjoy this post? Alexa Internet. Operations and history[edit] Alexa Internet was founded in 1996 by American web entrepreneurs Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat.[4] The company's name was chosen in homage to the Library of Alexandria,[5] drawing a parallel between the largest repository of knowledge in the ancient world and the potential of the Internet to become a similar store of knowledge.

The company offered a toolbar that gave Internet users suggestions on where to go next, based on the traffic patterns of its user community. Alexa also offered context for each site visited: to whom it was registered, how many pages it had, how many other sites pointed to it, and how frequently it was updated.[6] Alexa's operation includes archiving of webpages as they are crawled. In 1999, Alexa was acquired by Amazon.com for about US$250 million in Amazon stock[8] as the company moved away from its original vision of providing an "intelligent" search engine. In April 2007, the lawsuit Alexa v. Tracking[edit] Toolbar[edit] Alexa Web Search. Wow My Alexa Ranking is Great! Should I Trust It? : SEO Book.com. How accurate is Alexa - SEO Chat.