There is a website. Is it popular? Is it reputed? then, up to what extent? These are the common questions which arise in a user’s mind. Will anyone be able to find them out? Answer is “Yes, of course”. Every day you visit many websites, they are either known or unknown to you and you can not evaluate the website by looking at this aesthetic features or the content. Anyone can start a website and say whatever he/she wants! Alexa rank and the google page rank are the widely referred and recognized web rankings…..
Alexa Rank
All websites are ranked according to the traffic (simply says, number of visitors visiting that website). This service has been provided by Alexa. The rank is known as Alexa rank. According to the alexa ranking right now, google is in the first place, facebook is in the second place, yahoo is in the third place and so on. Before one year yahoo was the first google was the second and facebook was somwhere around fifth. All websites have a unique rank and all these ranks are dynamically changing according to the change in traffic driven to the website.
Google Page Rank
All websites and web pages are ranked based on the originality of the content and the back links(Links from other websites to that page). This service is provided by google. The rank is known as Google page rank. Google page rank ranges from zero to ten. The total number of websites which has page rank 10 is very few, may be less than ten or five. Google uses a unique formula to give the page rank.
So, check the page rank and alexa rank, so that you will exactly find out the true nature of a website…….
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Interesting post, I hope this will lead to further posts about this topic.
I have a question : how do advertising companies get the page rank and visitor counts, except from Alexa?
I know that Alexa can give some details about the top 100,000 websites on the net, are those datas being used by companies when they give a quotation for placing ads on a website?
Also you can have very detailed numbers on Analytics, but this is not accessible to extern people.
Page rank can be checked by using page rank checkers and tools.
For instance,
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/321
This firefox addon will show the page rank and alexa rank of the website you visit.
Visitor counts can be counted only by the administrators/owners of the website, using scripts or using tools like “google analytics” which give very detailed information and statistics.
Of course, the websites demand the price to place the ads based on page rank and alexa rank.
Alexa ranks all available websites on the internet except the ones which have no visitors at all, and alexa gives some more traffic details for the websites which are in the top 100,000
Thank you for you answer!
But how were companies doing the traffic checking before Alexa existed?
Or maybe this was not existing before, since Alexa was created in 1996 and I suggest they have been the pioneers in traffic monitoring.
Can you confirm?
ALEXA – Address Lookup Experts Authority was formed in 1996 before that there were no proper traffic ranking system was available, and the Internet was not that sophisticated during that time. We can say that no traffic systems were available before Alexa…
Yeah just as I thought
And except Alexa and Analytics, what solution do companies have?
Yahoo! Web Analytics is also a nice one.