Talk:Alexa Internet/Archives/2020

Please provide clarification for a dumb bunny without arcane knowledge.

Are there any plans to explain what the Alexa numbers mean? Do they represent traffic flow somehow or some other metric altogether? If it's traffic that's represented, then wouldn't a higher number be the more desirable? This site lists "The Top 100 Conservative Websites in September 2015". It puts Fox at the top at "44" and Watchdog at the bottom at "15,273". I would think that Fox would have way more traffic than a site I have not heard of before. Or are the numbers in reversed order - Fox gets the 44th spot because only 43 other sites have more traffic? http://thenewrevere.com/2015/09/the-top-100-conservative-websites-in-september-2015-2/

[NOTE: This is far from an endorsement for this website. I use it only because I am seeking an explanation for this topic and they present this "Alexa Ranking" chart.]

This is the Alexa Ranking of the Alexa site itself from the article's information box: "Alexa rank - [red downward arrow] 2,205 (August 2016)". Does the red arrow indicate some sort of trouble for Alexa's site, like the represented mystery metric is dropping?

Please don't use jargon in your reply or in the explanatory text that you add to the article. Many thanks, Wordreader (talk) 03:16, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Hello. Is anyone actually going to answer this, please? For my part, I'm wondering, too, what the ranking is about. (Or, is there a reply somewhere here and I've overseen it?) Thanks, --FuLAmGNut (talk) 13:31, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

The ranking is indeed representative of where the website falls in traffic visits, with #1 being the most visited website in the world ( at least according to Alexa's data). Yes, the arrows in the infobox represent falling ranking for this website, or rising ranking. The arrows are inconsistent whether they're pointing up or down, but the green should always represent rising ranking and red should always represent a lower ranking. Wires77 (talk) 14:53, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Ranking number is an ordinal number such as 1st, 2nd, ... 10 millionth but NOT a cardinal number such as 123,456,789 means how far down the site is and does not represent the number of clicks or visits or visitors except indirectly as traffic relative to another website. WurmWoode^T 11:15, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

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