According to Alexa Internet:
Blog Ranking
Virtue Online 233,764
one inch at a time 237,051 (the blog of the president of Integrity)
Stand Firm 383,335
TitusOneNine 389,060
Telling Secrets 899,285 (a liberal pecusa priest's blog)
Fr. Jake 981,492 (another liberal pecusa priest's blog)
This gives some perspective to the relative unimportance of the Anglican crisis to the world. Anglicans and Episcopalians really are a small bunch.
9 comments:
Tony+,
These numbers seem a bit off.
here is Susan Russel's site meter: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s31revsusanrussell
since she opened her blog, she's had a grand total of 420,532 page views. In the last 30 days, SF had 830,000.
Susan has had 285,992 visitors since 3/07
We have had 205,044 in the last thirty days.
28,000 page views a month is her average
We are around 800,000 which means we get almost 30 times the traffic she does.
I do not see how it is possible for her to have a higher ranking based on traffic.
I do not know DV's since he does not publish, but there is reason to believe that his traffic is behind Kendall's.
It could be that the stats you have reflect the number of google searches rather than the traffic flow.
But it is interesting
Matt
Alexa measures traffic based on page views and users. Google is #1, Yahoo is #2, etc., and they say it is updated daily. It may be that David Virtue gets lots of international interest while other sites are more U.S. based interest.
This is what Alexa says about their service:
About the Alexa Traffic Rankings
A listing of all sites on the Web, sorted by traffic...
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. The process is relatively complex, but if you have a need to know, please read on.
What is Traffic Rank?
The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and data obtained from other, diverse traffic data sources, and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for all sites on the Web on a daily basis. The main Alexa traffic rank is based on a value derived from these two quantities averaged over time (so that the rank of a site reflects both the number of users who visit that site as well as the number of pages on the site viewed by those users). The three-month change is determined by comparing the site's current rank with its rank from three months ago. For example, on July 1, the three-month change would show the difference between the rank based on traffic during the first quarter of the year and the rank based on traffic during the second quarter.
7:35 PM
Interesting, but again, the final result is terribly inaccurate. When you compare SR's traffic numbers for the year to just one month of traffic at SF, that becomes obvious. Alexa inexplicably ranks SR higher that SF despite having 30% less traffic. We do not know about DV but as I said, while more competitive I doubt his traffic beats T19 much less SF. I would not take Alexa's word for it given the huge discrepancy here.
Matt
I'm not sure pure page view and visitor count stats tell the whole picture - Alexa and Google site ranking figures are likely paint a more accurate picture because they use more data.
Google's page rankings seem to mirror Alexa's numbers:
VOL: 5/10
SR: 5/10
SF: 4/10
T19: 3/10
Bob Turner,
Of course when considering traffic it is not the amt of data but which data is used. Some data is irrelevant in determining which site is more heavily trafficked.
Unique visitor stats are the most important followed by page view for that figure.
Google ranking can be influenced simply by plugging in the name of a page on the search engine. So a site with little traffic may have a higher google rating if most of its visitors come through a google search than a site with more traffic whose visitors come though other links.
In any case, I think it obvious that since it took SR an entire year to get as many visits as SF does in one month, that the numbers are hardly an accurate assessment of traffic.
Matt
I don't care if we're 1st, 3rd or 300th among the Anglican blogs, so I'm not going to get into a spat about who's got more traffic; but I do know that Google analytics shows 830,000 pageviews for the past 30 days.
Matt's figures are correct - Susan's SiteMeter shows about 1/30th that much traffic.
One thing I do know is that SF is far from search-engine-optimized, which probably explains the huge ranking discrepancy between Susan's site and ours.
Bottom line - and this is not a slam on Susan, but on Alexa: There's something seriously wrong with any research that says her site has that much more traffic than SF. Even she would probably admit that.
Now this is ironic. Greg Griffith who has banned me from posting on SFIF is commenting on my minescule blog. I get banned for pointing out that Greg is slamming David Virtue and then threatening someone else who comments on his slamming Virtue with banning.
Now Greg, who says he doesn't care about rankings comes on DCNY to comment on Alexa rankings. And all because Alexa ranks Susan Russell's site higher than SFIF. It all sounds to me like quite a bit of ego is involved with this.
Tony Seel
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