2009/4/21 Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>: > 2009/4/21 Ian Woollard <[email protected]>:
>> So far as I can tell from percentage breakdowns by country in Alexa, >> the Chinese go to hudong and zh.wikipedia.org equally often- virtually >> the same number of page hits. However, hudong ranks 112 and >> wikipedia.org ranks 66 in China, which tells you that a lot of people >> are reading the other languages more than Chinese. > I seriously doubt that Alexa rankings at all meaningful for Chinese > page views. I'm not sure if it is still the case, but I seem to recall > that at some point the Alexa toolbar was only available in English, > that would explain why wikipedia.org does better - people that don't > speak good English are more likely to use the Chinese sites and less > likely to use the Alexa toolbar. Alexa is a rough guide only - their userbase (I heard it was ~70,000 somewhere, but don't recall where - I see no number in the Wikipedia article) is large enough to provide a statistical sample, but has all sorts of obvious systemic biases in the sampling (IE-only, English-only, etc). So we're #7 on Alexa, which indicates we're popular, but not a whole lot more! (We're #4 on comScore because comScore aggregates different sites from the same company, but Alexa does it strictly by domain name, e.g. listing Google and YouTube separately.) - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
