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Travellerspoint a TOP 500 website?!

Sometimes stats just crack me up!

02.03.2007

Earlier today an advertiser was pointing at some stats in Alexa as a basis for advertising on a Tupela site. Now while I understand the need to try and get some idea of how popular a site is before putting advertising money in it, it really cracked me up because Alexa is known to be seriously flawed (plus, they didn't bother asking me if there was any validity to the stats or not).

This was illustrated even more when I was checking out some new features Alexa is now showing in its ranking of Travellerspoint:

1. the breakdown per country of where most users are coming from (here's a screenshot for TP)
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and

2. the real cracker, where Travellerspoint ranks in each country in terms of popularity!
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Yes folks, that's correct. In Norway, Travellerspoint is the 227th site in terms of popularity and even more impressive, in Australia only 298 sites are more popular than Travellerspoint!! Now I wonder, could that possibly have anything to do with the location of Travellerspoint staff??? :)

Of course the numbers are fun to watch and do provide a broad sense of popularity, but it's important to realize how easily these are influenced by a few people who visit a site a lot! Now if only we could attract some more traffic from the States; perhaps we should set up an office there too?! :)

Posted by Sam I Am 02:38

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Impressive I say :)

02.03.2007 by Peter

Oh, and of course it's always nice to see us pass our competitors, even if the stats aren't reliable :)

02.03.2007 by Sam I Am

Ooh, new business idea: move to the USA, and have people pay me to install the Alexa toolbar and surf to their sites!
(The only downsides and moving to the USA and having to install the Alexa toolbar, but otherwise it's a flawless plan! Muahahahaha!)

02.03.2007 by Sander

Yet dispite the "how easily these are influenced by a few people who visit the site allot" comment, Ireland with its plethora of regular visitors and bloggers ranks below Slovakia and Peurto Rico, the Dutch invasion is barely better and Sweden doesn't make the rankings at all [Hmmm. Must visit more often...]

12.03.2007 by Gelli

It all depends on having the Alexa toolbar installed or not. On mine it's part of a firefox extension I think, otherwise I wouldn't have it and Norway would probably drop heavily (although traffic is actually pretty solid here due to a few partnerships with Norwegian companies). I don't really know many people that aren't web developers or interested in the web some other way that have this tool installed, although I think it might be more popular in the US than in Europe too. I'm guessing most of the regulars do not have this tool installed, otherwise this ranking would really take a beating from TP! :)

12.03.2007 by Sam I Am

hallo Sam en Peter leuk dat overzichtje, natuurlijk zijn er veel minder nederlanders als gebruiker/ maar mischien in percentage van de totale bevolking(16.000.000) wel meer dan de US.
liefs thea, hoe gaat het met Miles en Malia?? alles oké doeiii!

12.03.2007 by theabak

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