18:28 by FoxTwo
New Alexa Ranks Don't Inspire Much Confidence Anymore
The new Alexa rankings caught me by surprise, in more ways than one.
Remember I was saying that my blog is just "so-so" and that I don't really have a lot of traffic? At best 150 or so daily is the norm (I know, it's pathetic compared to you guys but I'm happy with the figure ok?). My rankings have always been around 300,000 or so, and it yo-yos up and down around that figure.
Yesterday I was surprised to see my current ranking - it jumped almost 100,000 places to 222,000. I got excited for awhile, till I checked out their website. They announced that they've changed the way they rank websites.
So now my website is sporting a brand spanking new rank.
But, the next surprise was in store for me. Check out the pic.
Alexa stats
Suddenly, my visitors from USA dropped from 50% to 29.7% ?? What happened to my Singapore statistics? Who the hell in Nigeria is reading my blog?! And hell no, my blog isn't a 419 spammer blog ok?
Google Analytics stats
Statcounter Stats
I checked my other stat counters, like Google Analytics, and sure enough, zero visitors from Nigeria. Over at Google, at least, it still shows the usual - roughly 48% USA, 46% Singaporeans, and 2% other places (ok Statcounter says otherwise). Well, in any case, other counters still say Singapore and USA are my main traffic sources.
Now, this anomaly doesn't inspire much confidence in Alexa ranks anymore. I don't see "Nigeria" listed anywhere else in my other 2 statistics counters. Not just "a few" Nigerians. According to this statistic, almost HALF of my 150 daily visitors come from Nigeria! I'd really, really like to see just exactly how Alexa determined that Nigerians are reading my blog whereas the other 2 counters don't even register anything from there.
The biggest question is - what happened to the stats for Singapore?!
