Lindsay Lohan is Good for Your Website's Traffic- February 27, 2008 Note: Alexa's traffic data are still delayed by about a week, so this post is a bit stale. Today's Movers graph pretty much tells a short story about how if you're a scandal-plagued starlet recovering from substance abuse, and you pose as an American icon from the past, the site that posts your photos will get a lot of traffic. You're free to view the photos, but be warned; they are NSFW--orhttp://awis.blogspot.com/2008/02/lindsay-lohan-is-good-for-your-websites.html Freshness of Traffic Data- February 22, 2008 As some of you have noticed, our traffic data is a few days behind. We are working hard to catch up, and you will see new data appearing over the next several days. Thank you for your patience!http://awis.blogspot.com/2008/02/freshness-of-traffic-data.html Firefox Continues to Impress- February 21, 2008 Note: due to some technical difficulties, the Movers data have not been updated since Friday the 15th. Rather than hold them frozen at those posted Tuesday the 12th of February, I'm updating them to the last available, reliable Movers data. You look at the graph and you see Mozilla. Your brain says, "Yeah, I just updated Firefox." I'm always impressed by how much of a surge in traffic thehttp://awis.blogspot.com/2008/02/firefox-continues-to-impress.html Firefox Updates Reliably Increase Mozilla Traffic- February 15, 2008 When I look at the current graph of the Movers and Shakers, I have three thoughts. 1) Oh right, I did just recently have a Firefox update. 2) Man, that Warcraft III Defense of the Ancients game is really popular. note: I'm not a gamer and initially confused World of Warcraft with Warcraft III. A kind commenter named Ryan pointed out my mistake and I have corrected this item. Thank you, Ryan.http://awis.blogspot.com/2008/02/firefox-updates-reliably-increase.html Scandal = Traffic- February 8, 2008 When you look at the graph of our Movers and Shakers, the most striking increase among the top three is from the Mover in the number-two position, NoScript. This Firefox add-on is already popular; it has a three-month Traffic Rank of 3,799. While the recent release of a new version of NoScript has certainly given the site's traffic a boost, it's already popular enough overall so the boost ishttp://awis.blogspot.com/2008/02/scandal-traffic.html Alexa Data Updates- February 7, 2008 As some of you have noticed, we temporarily stopped updating Alexa traffic information on January 31. We discovered some anomalies in the traffic rankings, including some inexplicable drops in traffic for a number of sites in China. We decided to halt the traffic updates until we resolved the issue. We expect to correct the problems later this evening. Thank you for your patience!http://awis.blogspot.com/2008/02/alexa-data-updates.html |