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I'll pay you ten dollars to fill out this Free iPod form.

Add to that this graph, which shows that The Butler & Co. are not going anywhere, while Google looks like it ate a ton of Duracel batteries.

Why don't they stop submitting their site to slashdot? That should cut down on their bandwidth.

Hmmm.

The web site information is provided by Alexa, a subsidiary of Amazon. They are an internet directory of sorts, they also have a ranking of the most popular web sites. On their homepage is yet another web search engine... powered by Google.

For those too young to remember, this would be BARN: Bourne Again RealNames

Something to reminisce:
RealNames Wayback.

You can see their fall here:
Realnames.com.

According to the (IMHO) inaccurate Alexa.com - http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details? &range=3m&size=medium&compare_sites=&url=friendste r.com#top

If Alexa is any indication, they are doing well. Alexa users make up maybe 10% of Internet users, but being in the top 100 on Alexa is very good.

And as boring as that is to some, the psychological profile that a personal blog can build can be invaluable for lots of different reasons. First of all, for anyone who asks you, "So what have you been up to?", it's nice to throw them a link rather than repeat the last week or two of my life over and over. But the most prominent reason for personal blogging, I feel, is for social networks/dating services. I mean, any two people can have similar interests, but if I can skim through a two year history about someone's daily musings, I'd say I stand a much better chance of knowing how they tick.

Has anybody here ever heard of Xanga? No one here ever mentions Xanga. Not as feature rich, technical or flexible as [blogger|livejournal|MT], but with an Alexa ranking of 73, you've got to wonder how it gets so much traffic. I'd like to believe its appeal lies in its simplicity and ease of use for non-techies (who I believe are the majority of the population), which is why it has so many people. And while there are no hard statistics on this, but if I had to estimate, I say a good percentage of those xangans are Asian (I'm Asian too, so not trying to be racist). So given the above, I'd think that Japan might be a pretty good place to test out some launch and establish some new blogging software. But these are just the $.02 of an avid fan of personal blogging.

Some Important Disclaimers

• The Alexa Toolbar works only with the Internet Explorer browser. Sites frequented mainly by users of other browsers will be undercounted.
  
  
• The Alexa Toolbar works only on Windows operating systems. Although a large majority of the Internet population currently used Windows, traffic to any sites which are disproportionately visited by users of other operating systems will be undercounted.

Check out the 2 year graph. I think it puts things in perspective. http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details? &range=2y&size=large&compare_sites=slashdot.org&ur l=http://www.doubleclick.com#graph

Cool find, here are a couple I ran comparing:
Slashdot and Fark
Apple and Red Hat
Sun and SGI
Sun and Red Hat
RedvsBlue.com to Linux.com

Cool find, here are a couple I ran comparing:
Slashdot and Fark
Apple and Red Hat
Sun and SGI
Sun and Red Hat
RedvsBlue.com to Linux.com

Cool find, here are a couple I ran comparing:
Slashdot and Fark
Apple and Red Hat
Sun and SGI
Sun and Red Hat
RedvsBlue.com to Linux.com

Cool find, here are a couple I ran comparing:
Slashdot and Fark
Apple and Red Hat
Sun and SGI
Sun and Red Hat
RedvsBlue.com to Linux.com

Cool find, here are a couple I ran comparing:
Slashdot and Fark
Apple and Red Hat
Sun and SGI
Sun and Red Hat
RedvsBlue.com to Linux.com

you are joking

alexa is crap
but doubleclick doesn't give a flying fuck about slashdot.

Or better still, the site has an Rating of 116,103. You aren't really "on the map" till you break under 10,000.

Sure you can. But if you asked the average interweb user (ie, pretty much everybody else) where to go for news, he'd point you to cnn.com or the like.

The slightly more savvy may have their local newspaper or tv station bookmarked, but the majority of them have never even heard of moveon.org.

A quick look at alexa's rankings supports this.

I don't see a correlation between Network Solutions' Traffic Ranking and Alexa Ranks.

Slashdot is ranked 1,270 on Alexa and has a Traffic Rank of 1 on whois. That makes sense.

gizmobytes.com has a Traffic Rank of 2. That's pretty good for a site which is ranked 968,786 on Alexa!

sizzly.com is ranked 854,289 on Alexa, but has a Traffic Ranking of 5 -- quite a bit lower than gizmobytes.com, if a lower number is better.

I don't see a correlation between Network Solutions' Traffic Ranking and Alexa Ranks.

Slashdot is ranked 1,270 on Alexa and has a Traffic Rank of 1 on whois. That makes sense.

gizmobytes.com has a Traffic Rank of 2. That's pretty good for a site which is ranked 968,786 on Alexa!

sizzly.com is ranked 854,289 on Alexa, but has a Traffic Ranking of 5 -- quite a bit lower than gizmobytes.com, if a lower number is better.

I don't see a correlation between Network Solutions' Traffic Ranking and Alexa Ranks.

Slashdot is ranked 1,270 on Alexa and has a Traffic Rank of 1 on whois. That makes sense.

gizmobytes.com has a Traffic Rank of 2. That's pretty good for a site which is ranked 968,786 on Alexa!

sizzly.com is ranked 854,289 on Alexa, but has a Traffic Ranking of 5 -- quite a bit lower than gizmobytes.com, if a lower number is better.

It turns out that Wikipedia has had more daily traffic than Slashdot since late 2003.

I think the link you meant to give was the comparison graph between slashdot and wikipedia. Wikipedia passed slashdot in traffic early this year, and the difference has widened since then. By now wikipedia gets twice to three times as much traffic.

actually Wikipedia is busier than slashdot, according to Alexa.

And for good reason. (disclaimer: I am a Wikipedia contributor.) Also recommend Wikitravel.

...if you had the plugin, you could place a post-it style note onto web pages you visited. And people who had the same plugin could see it when they visited it... ...but I still wonder what the name of the software was, who was the person who came up with it, and what happened to it.

I remember this too, and I think that I had it installed at one point. The first name that came to mind is Alexa Internet, and I believe that some versions of their tool bar had the feature that you remember... although I could be completely wrong. It's my best guess, though, I suppose. They are now owned by amazon.com.

I've received several Gmail invitations, and can confirm that they do not automatically end up in Yahoo's Bulk folder. Of course, this may not be true for everyone.

As a side note - Gmail invitations are being offered in bulk now, and Alexa shows it.

Yeah, IE "works" for hundreds of thousands of people, that's why spyware sites occupy so many of the top 100 most hit sites on the web. The people using those computers generally have no desire to visit those sites, their hijacked computer does it automatically for them, that's really working now isn't it!

(Ironically, coming from an Ex-Troll.) The key to thinking is COMMON SENSE.

I haven't even visited the site in years, literally. Do people still use that?

In a word, yes. Yahoo is still one of the most popular sites on the Internet, even if you don't think so.

Its Alexa rank has been cut in 3 over the past year.

First, in response to your claim that Wikipedia doesn't get much eye share, I should mention that it gets more traffic than slashdot. (For a list of others, see here). And, just for the record, we know from comparing server stats that Alexa has a pro-english bias and underestimates our traffic (to the other 50+ languages) by a significant amount.

As for blocking, we block by usernames and IP addresses. A block logged in user will have both his username and IPs blocked, while anon users have just their IP address. For more persistent vandalism from a range of IP address, we'll block whole subnets. The length of these blocks are at the admin's discretion, but 24 hours is the used in the vast majority of cases.

As far as HTML - all but a handful of HTML tags are ignored, and in the future most of the rest will probably be done away with.

Unfortunately, scammers and spammers often have a lot more available bandwidth than typical artists or honest business sites. Even worse, you toss up your anti-419 page that throws unwanted traffic at a page, and you increase the scammer sites rating. The various sustained DOS attacks on SCO gave SCO an Alexa Rating in the low thousands. A smart scammer might use the DOS attack to set cookies for merchant programs, and end up making money for the person you are trying to attack. We seem to forget that both good and bad publicity drive valuable traffic to sites.

In case you're fuzzy on U.S. copyright law, all created works automatically receive copyright, regardless of whether the work is officially registered with the U.S. copyright office. Many artists choose to give away their work.

Taking at face value the statements the MPAA is "educating" public schoool students with, downloading anything from ifilm.com would be illegal. ifilm.com, which is ranked by alexa.com in the top 2000 websites (out of more than 5 million ranked), distributes videos (such as movie shorts) that their creators have given permission to be distributed for free.

Surely the MPAA is not promulgating the outrageous statements portrayed in the Globe article? Well, an Oct. 17, 2003 press release by Junior Achievement, the organization entrusted by the MPAA to carry out its propaganda in the public schools, links to the MPAA's respectcopyrights.org site, which contains a page which states:

At the end of the day, when you get right down to it, downloading copyrighted movies off the Internet is illegal. It's against the law.

A more correct statement would have been "downloading copyrighted movies off the Internet against the wishes of the copyright holder is illegal."

A minor difference? Hardly. The MPAA is inculcating the concept in students that movies and videos should exist only in a commercial context. Instead, with the advent of cheap video technology, students should be encouraged to make their own amateur videos and share them over the Internet. Script writing, staging, lighting -- that would be real education.

Public schools are a place where students learn to consume rather than create.

Well almost all free toolbar services track your searches. For example, the google toolbar, by default does, as does the Alexa toolbar. Dont let this prevent you of your sleep, it's just the internet.

Amazon owns Alexa, which has a Toolbar that sends your browsing habits to Amazon for rankings and analysis.

a9 likely uses Alexa data to generate better search results, and the a9 toolbar likely sends data to Alexa and/or a9 for analysis.

Yep, I think that's right.

Amazon owns Alexa, which has a Toolbar that sends your browsing habits to Amazon for rankings and analysis.

a9 likely uses Alexa data to generate better search results, and the a9 toolbar likely sends data to Alexa and/or a9 for analysis.

Yep, I think that's right.

Amazon owns Alexa, which has a Toolbar that sends your browsing habits to Amazon for rankings and analysis.

a9 likely uses Alexa data to generate better search results, and the a9 toolbar likely sends data to Alexa and/or a9 for analysis.

Yep, I think that's right.

Amazon owns Alexa, which has a Toolbar that sends your browsing habits to Amazon for rankings and analysis.

a9 likely uses Alexa data to generate better search results, and the a9 toolbar likely sends data to Alexa and/or a9 for analysis.

Yep, I think that's right.

Amazon owns Alexa, which has a Toolbar that sends your browsing habits to Amazon for rankings and analysis.

a9 likely uses Alexa data to generate better search results, and the a9 toolbar likely sends data to Alexa and/or a9 for analysis.

Yep, I think that's right.

You've got to be kidding me.
Go.com is the 21st most trafficked site on the web. (Over half of that is for ESPN.)

Slashdot is 1000+

You've got to be kidding me.
Go.com is the 21st most trafficked site on the web. (Over half of that is for ESPN.)

Slashdot is 1000+

The attention is definitely waning - here is plot of the NASA web site traffic. (The plot is courtesy of Alexa and may not work in all browsers, so I put a JPEG of today's ranking up.)

You can clearly see peaks for both Landings - according to Alexa, greater than the peak at the time of the Columbia disaster and a decline more or less to baseline since.

Would Google be able to copyright the name Gmail? Looking at this search on dogpile.com we see that there are already freshmeat/sourceforge projects and products out there named "Gmail". Seems like they have been around a lot longer than Google's newly announced service.

Also, Alexa has a snapshot of what Gmail.com recently looked like.

Or maybe Yahoo! is the Internet's most popular destination, but I never knew that before. :P

They've benn #1, and famous for it, for quite a long, long while.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how much daily traffic Slashdot gets? Alexa is showing Slashdot ranked as 989 of all webistes at thier traffic details page.

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PHP is good enough for Yahoo, and they have more traffic than CNN does.

PHP is good enough for Yahoo, and they have more traffic than CNN does.

Actually, Yahoo uses PHP. I would think that Yahoo would be a much bigger test than CNN.com, seeing as how it's the #1 site on the Net.

You're right to a fair degree, for this reason. It's a really young project compared to all prominent paper encyclopedias. There's still a great deal of improving and reviewing to be done, as well as plenty of completely absent articles to write.

If you see a problem, please fix it. That's why it's a wiki, not a paper brick revised every decade or three.

I don't believe him either... doesn't it seem like someone who gets 3.5 million hits a month would show up in the top 100,000 sites according to alexa? But in the past two years it hasn't even inched in. I'm going to call BS.