Alexa FAQ

What is alexa traffic rank of websites?

Alexa traffic rank is given to websites worldwide based on the number of visitors using alexa toolbar visiting that site (reach) and number of pages hit by a visitor (page views). Alexa also shows the percentage of visitors coming from each country and country wise traffic ranks.

How can we submit our site to Alexa.com ?

Alexa mostly crawls your site by itself but if you want to submit your site you can contact us.Click here.

How can we improve the ranking of a website?

Most common and easy method to improve Alexa ranking of your website is installing alexa toolbar and surfing your website when required. You can get alexa toolbar here.

Is Alexa ranking important?

Though Alexa traffic rank is calculated from alexa toolbar using visitors only which may be only a fraction of the total internet surfers and the internet surfers using the alexa toolbar may also vary for example students are less likely to use alexa toolbar and they may opt for more attractive toolbars. So the education websites mayloose on ranking. But inspite of all its shortcomings it is the only way, we can get an Idea of the internet surfers visiting a particular website.So it is very important to maintain a good alexa ranking. To improve your alexa ranking by using only genuine ways contact us here. Alexa traffic ranking provides credibility to the websites and thus increases traffic and in turn the ultimate goal that is income.

What is Traffic Rank?

The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from a large number of Alexa Toolbar users and is a combined measure of page views and users termed as reach. Firstly, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for all sites on the Web daily . The main Alexa traffic rank is based on the geometric mean of these two quantities averaged over time. So the traffic rank depends on both number of users and page seen by each visitor. The three-month change is determined by comparing the site's current rank with its rank from three months ago. For example, on Oct 1, the three-month change would show the difference between the rank based on traffic during the second quarter of the year and the rank based on traffic during the third quarter.

What is Reach?

Reach measures the number of users(unique visitors). Reach is typically expressed as the percentage of all Internet users who visit a given site. So, for example, if a site like alexarankingboost.com has a reach of 8%, this means that if you took random samples of one million Internet users, you would on average find that 80,000 of them visit alexarankingboost.com. Alexa expresses reach as number of users per million. Alexa's one-week and three-month average reach are measures of daily reach, averaged over the specified time period. The reach rank is a ranking of all sites based solely on their reach. The three-month changes are determined by comparing a site's current reach and reach rank with its values from three month
ago.

What are Page Views?

Page views are calculated by number of pages viewed by Alexa Toolbar using visitors. Multiple page views of the same page done by the same visitor on the same day are counted only once. The page views per user numbers are the average numbers of unique pages viewed per user per day by the users visiting the site. The page view rank is a ranking of all sites based solely on the total number of page views (not page views per user). The three-month changes are determined by comparing a site's current page view numbers with those from three month ago.Page views per million indicates what fraction of all the page views by toolbar users go to a particular site. For example, if alexarankingboost.com has 30,000 page views per million, this means that 3% of all page views go to alexarankingboost.com.If you summed the fractional page views over all sites, you would get
100% (this is not true of reach, since each user can of course visit more than one site).

How Are Traffic Trend Graphs Calculated?

The daily trafficrank in the Trend graphs allows you to see short term fluctuations in traffic much more clearly. Daily traffic rankings may benefit sites withshort term high traffic, while the three month traffic ranking benefits sites with consistent traffic over a long period of time. Since the consistent traffic is a better indication of a site's value, the three-month traffic rank represents the site's overall rank.