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Sound screwed up? Yep, there are a lot of nails to hammer in Alexa accuracy’s coffin. It’s important to realize that Alexa is only a guide, not an accurate source.
Greg Linden of Findory pointed out this site in a blog post on his analysis of Alexa visitors to his site.
Looking at the Findory graph, I have some idea of the source of his disatisfaction with the numbers:
I’ve seen posts from Greg Linden that their traffic is steadily on the rise, however looking at Alexa it looks like the site is slowly dying out.
Lately I’ve seen so much jumpiness in the Alexa graphs I’ve just been waiting for them to calm down before trying to intuit any information from them.
Then again, at a gross level the graphs are still accurate:
Comment from Greg Linden:
Ouch, that’s a little harsh, Alex, comparing Findory to Bloglines!
How about comparing Findory to PubSub and Feedster?
Or to Rojo and Newsvine?
That’s a little more fair. After all, Findory is just a tiny self-funded startup. I would think it should be pretty impressive that we are at all competitive with these much bigger, VC funded firms.