How does Alexa rank websites?

[MVM Infotech]

How does Alexa rank websites?

[fayeseom]

Alexa’s Traffic Ranks are based on the traffic data provided by users in Alexa’s global data panel. Alexa’s measurement panel is based on a very large and diverse set of browser extensions and plug-ins. thye say by millions of people using over 25,000 different browser extensions.

[arianagrand]

Alexa traffic ranks are based on two sets of data: total number of unique visitors as well as page views. In other words, top ranked sites are not only able to attract new users but also have quality content that is able to keep people on site.

[anki00]

BY considering the pageviews and unique visitors - a website sustains, Alexa uses to rank websites.

[dombowkett]

Alexa SEO tools check website backlinks to rate it Globally.

[traveloweb]

Alexa ranking works by measuring the rank of a website or a blog based on the data about the amount of traffic source that goes through Alexa System (or Alexa Tool).

Alexa ranking records all the traffic sources from Alexa Tool users and ignores rest of the traffic data.Alexa computes traffic rankings by analyzing the Web usage of millions of Alexa Toolbar users and data obtained from other, diverse traffic data sources. The information is sorted, sifted, anonymized, counted, and computed, until, finally, we get the traffic rankings shown in the Alexa service."

[riprook7]

Alexa is a tool which collect traffic of the website of about 3 month and analyses the unique traffic to the website. After analyzing it gives ranking to the website.

[sadianisar]

Alexa ranks a website on the base of website traffic flow. Alexa rank in SEO does not matter much.

[RobertBishop]

Alexa rank depends on your website traffic.

[Nirala]

Alexa rank depends on the traffic to your website, page views, unique page views, session etc.

[RH-Calvin]

Alexa measures the traffic on your website and provide a numerical value to rank your domain in search engines. Alexa rank can be improved by good content update and also by building backlinks from other relevant sources.

[alexstring]

Alexa website ranking base on there traffic or unique visitor that comes on your site. Only good SEO techniques gonna work to rank your website in Alexa.

[Sara James]

Why are you so concerned with Alexa? Invest the same efforts in SEO instead

[Nirala]

Alexa rank depends on the traffic of the website and the unique visitors to the website.

[davidsmith21]

Alexa is a Web Information Company, they are rank website on many factors like a traffic. Alexa rank is updated day to day.

[roycpo]

Alexa.com is a website that ranks websites based on traffic, so in terms of SEO, moving up or down the ranks of Alexa is indicative of how your SEO campaign is doing. If you're doing SEO right, you should get a better Alexa rank.

[wiztech]

From the Alexa website, "Alexa computes traffic rankings by analyzing the Web usage of millions of Alexa Toolbar users and data obtained from other, diverse traffic data sources. The information is sorted, sifted, anonymized, counted, and computed, until, finally, we get the traffic rankings shown in the Alexa service."

[Wiztechplc]

Alexa’s Traffic Ranks are based on the traffic data provided by users in Alexa’s global data panel over a rolling 3 month period. Traffic Ranks are updated daily. A site’s ranking is based on a combined measure of Unique Visitors and Pageviews. Unique Visitors are determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site on a given day. Pageviews are the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site. However, multiple requests for the same URL on the same day by the same user are counted as a single Pageview. The site with the highest combination of unique visitors and pageviews is ranked #1.