I have heard from Alexa regarding Philippine rankings, they have told me that they are in the process of demoting many Philippine rankings in the top 50 as it is obvious they are cheating, as many as 80% they are saying of the sites listed in the top 50. They have not named names, which I guess is to be expected. As a rough indicator they have said if there is a variation of more than 50,000 between Alexa/Netcraft rankings on these top 50 sites then there could be something wrong with the figures accuracy.

Alexa further say they do not purport their rankings to be an accurate figure, but a snapshot of what users using the toolbars’ habits are with surfing. I am afraid they still won’t give me a user base of the Alexa toolbar, no more will Netcraft give anymore than downloads, however, one has to question what percentage of Alexa/Netcraft downloads actually end up on a users browser.

I am a shareholder of Amazon and asked my questions on that basis.

Sure there is a need for an accurate source for rankings.

Belated Easter blessings

Marites

As I said Netcraft figures are not based on toolbar returns it is something to do with search engine results and some formula they keep secret to themselves. But whatever major source we use they are subject to error – big errors sometimes. Not like a newspaper prints x copies has y returned so z has to be the approximate circulation. TV, radio and Internet audiences can only be guesses. Balita calculates its page views from advertiser returns and not what our log says.

I think 41 million page views for INQ7 yuga is a little over the top – the BBC which maintains it is the most read news site on the net does not maintain this figure a month

Take care Max, regards to Anol.

Marites

Netcraft rakings are more reliable than the ’similar’ Alexa which is compiled from users of Internet Explorer with the Alexa toolbar. Netcraft uses a different criteria and lists some 5.5 million websites in its most visited tables.

So the results were accurate at the time – for those interested Balita receives almost 2 million page views a month and has done so for the past 5 or 6 years. We are now in our 13th year of continuous operation.

- Marites -

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