Am 31.05.2011 12:36, schrieb Fred Bauder: >> Thanks everyone! I knew that one should be careful with Alexa but I >> didn´t expect it could be THAT wrong. It´s a pity because otherwise it >> could be a convenient and interesting tool. The next question is: is >> this rather an exception or is Alexa in general not reliable? Maybe I >> shouldn´t use it for academic papers at all. >> Best, >> >> René > As in physics the nature and limitations of any measuring tool and > concept is part of your research. Right, the problem is just that Alexa is not "my" research tool and therefore it not transparent to me what it actually does. The same goes for other tools like Google Trends, BTW. Of course, it´s understandable that these companies do not provide much information about the methodology but as a researcher that´s kind of frustrating. R. > Personal use of the Alexa toolbar > affects measurements only when what one, or a few, persons do matters in > the statistics. > > Fred > >> Am 31.05.2011 08:57, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo): >>> Laura Hale, 30/05/2011 21:35: >>>> Alexa statstics can be easily manipulated to a degree. The >>>> discrepancy >>>> could be as simple as having one or two users from Russia who have the >>>> Alexa toolbar installed from Russia who visit regularly every day, >>>> whereas the americans who visit don't have Alexa installed. (Because >>>> the population that tends to have the Alexa toolbar installed tends to >>>> be relatively self selecting in terms of certain industries.) >>>> >>>> Alexa data should always be taken with a huge grain of salt. I was >>>> able >>>> to push my own site up to the 2,500th most popular site in Australia >>>> meerly by visiting it every day. >>> +1 >>> >>> René König, 30/05/2011 20:26: >>> > On the other hand, according to Wikimedia stats, the English >>> Wikiversity >>> > site has much more Views/hr (4,068) than the Russian one (271) >>> >>> Wikimedia page view stats are not approximate; this simply proves that >>> Alexa is wrong. >>> >>> Nemo >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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