DISQUS

Parag · 2 years ago

Hi Ajay
I am also from India(Mumbai). I visit periodically. Like to read your writings about blogging & other WP stuff.

Cheers!

Ajay · 2 years ago

Thanks for dropping by regularly Parag.

Glad to know you like what I write :)

Benedict Herold · 2 years ago

That's does mean you have little Indian Readers... You might have little Indian reader who're at home :) Like me!!!

Ajay · 2 years ago

Well, I'm sure there are other Indian readers as well... just that the folks from USA outnumber them!

Thanks for reading :)

Arnim Leuschner · 2 years ago

from my perspective this alexa stuff is lacking population/universe...

espessically the new "traffic to countries analysis" is window-dressing...

...but
with regards from germany (your top2 country:-)

Ajay · 2 years ago

Hi Arnim, thanks for the comment and dropping by. Do comment more often :)

Jonathan · 2 years ago

USA. I'm one of the ones responsible for jacking up your stats. :-)

Ajay · 2 years ago

Hi Jonathan,

Well, thank you... do get more of your fellow country men to join you in getting these stats up :)

Mark from Bloglyne.com · 2 years ago

I would be interested to find out what the population comparisons were between the U.S. & India along with the number of people who actually have access to computers and the internet.

This sort of thing may impact your numbers and provide you with more relevent data. For example, if only 5% of the population in India has access to the internet and 95% of the population in the U.S. have access to the internet, they you may have a much higher percentage of Indian readers than you think...

What do you think?

Arnim Leuschner · 2 years ago

@mark
i agree, but the central population problem with alexa is in an earlier stage..
... alexa only can count traffic (systems from countries) when useragents/browsers are using their toolbar.

e.g: i'm from germany and i haven't installed the alexatoolbar.. ... so i'm not within those 7.3% reported "german visitors"


factoring "country inhabitants" with "inhabitants using internet" would by the next (very interesting) step.
but without knowing how many user (byCountry) having this toolbar installed all this alexa-traffic-stuff has no significance

@ajey
if you have the toolbar installed and you are visiting/editing your site once a day you are going to get a alexa-traffic-rank approx 100000 withing 2 or 3 month.

Ajay · 2 years ago

@Mark, you've raised valid points. I believe the percentages above are actually a percent of the whole, i.e. if I had 100 visitors, then 5% is 5 visitors and so on.

@Arnim, you're right about that. I don't have the toolbar installed on my PC. Alexa only tracks those on the toolbar. Actually, they can easily provide users with code to put into their blogs/sites for tracking purposes. I'm sure most will do that.

Arnim Leuschner · 2 years ago

"results are only as good as the selection process that brings in the data"!

just found this post by Peter Norvig who is the Director of Research at Google

http://norvig.com/logs-alexa.html

nothing more to say:-)

greetings from germany!!!