Google Slides in Alexa Ratings
While other news outlets are reporting government officials slipping and sliding, The Cyberculture News is reporting that Google has fallen two spots in the Alexa ratings. YouTube and Windows Live moved into the 2nd and 3rd positions, dropping Google into the 4th spot on Alexa's web page traffic listing. Yahoo still remains in the # 1 slot.
According to Alexa, it maintains a listing of all sites on the Web, sorted by traffic. It computes traffic rankings by analyzing the Web usage of millions of Alexa Toolbar users. The information is sorted, sifted, anonymized, counted, and computed, until, finally, they have a traffic rankings shown in the Alexa service.
The following is Alexa's Global Top Ten List as of Feb. 14, 2008.
Google.com - Traffic Details from Alexa
Reach for Google.com:
Percent of global Internet users who Google.com
Yesterday 27.799%
1 wk. Avg. 27.4%
3 mos. Avg. 26.905%
Traffic Rank for Google.com:
What's This?
Alexa traffic rank based on a combined measure of page views and users (reach)
Yesterday 4
1 wk. Avg. 4
3 mos. Avg. 3
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