Is sbynews.com really ranked within the top 100,000 websites in the U.S.??

By WicBury Crapper Board Member "IllGutYouLikeAFish (BM - Info Tech)"....




Not even close. Here is why...

First and foremost, the rating amount is gathered from the rating website Alexa itself. So, it draws upon data that is collected by either it's website (through a code that alexa users put on their website) or through the "Alexia Toolbar". Therefore, it is only drawing upon information of it's members, not all websites in the U.S. or the world. So in reality the figure shown to the left of "100,357" is out of unique users that employ Alexa's website methods collecting statistical data. Websites that do not register with Alexa are not included in these figures and therefore are not calculated in the bottom line averages. To prove our point we searched our results... we are not members of Alexa nor do we use their code on our blog site in order for them to calculate our blogsite usage, because we really don't care. But, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, its probably a duck. Meaning, if it smells like mooseshit, and looks like mooseshit, the statistics are probably mooseshit. Below is a capture image of our results on Alexa's website.

Again, they have no data to draw from because we don't include their code on our site to identify us as a member to be calculated. So, really sbynews.com's statistics are only of the sites participating with Alexa to find out their ranking results. Note it reads "No Data" and that we were online since 2000, which is of course bullshit and that 430,891 sites link to us, which again is totally incorrect. But we could go around yelling "HEY! 430,891 sites link to the Crapper! WOW!". Note, if you look up sbynews.com's linking statistics they read "80". So again, totally in accurate.



So the figures shown about sbynews.com are slanted because although it may be popular in the 100,000 range of alexa users, alexa users don't include all websites on the internet, just a small fraction thereof. Note that the number of Alexa users is somewhere in the neighborhood of 380,000 vs 100,000 for the U.S.? If there are only 100,000 Alexa users in the U.S. then sbynews.com would be in last place. But Alexa doesn't publish those statistics. So in reality, it's a tool that makes people feel better about themselves and their websites. But, it's a totally inaccurate way of calculating a websites "popularity".

Read Alexa's information below...taken from their FAQ page....


Now, as mentioned above, Alexa's traffic rankings are based on the past three months of global traffic according to our diverse data sources, and are updated daily. A site's ranking is based on a combined measure of Reach and Page Views. Reach is the percentage of unique internet users who visit a site. Page Views are the average number of user URL requests for a site. However, multiple requests for the same URL on the same day by the same user are counted as a single Page View. The site with the highest combination of users and Page Views is ranked #1. Additionally, we employ data normalization to correct for biases that may occur in our data. Sites with relatively low measured traffic will not be accurately ranked by Alexa. Our data comes from many various sources, including our Alexa users; however, we do not receive enough data from these sources to make rankings beyond 100,000 statistically meaningful. (However, on the flip side of that, the closer a site gets to #1, the more reliable its rank.) This means that, for example, the difference in traffic between a site ranked 1,000,000 and a site ranked 2,000,000 has low statistical significance. Sites ranked 100,000+ may be subject to large ranking swings due to the scarcity of data for those sites.


Alexa's traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users and data collected from other, diverse sources over a rolling 3 month period. A site's ranking is based on a combined measure of reach and pageviews. Reach is determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site on a given day. Pageviews are the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site. However, multiple requests for the same URL on the same day by the same user are counted as a single pageview. The site with the highest combination of users and pageviews is ranked #1.Alexa's traffic rankings are for top level domains only (e.g. domain.com). We do not provide separate rankings for subpages within a domain (e.g. http://www.domain.com/subpage.html) or subdomains (e.g. subdomain.domain.com) unless we are able to automatically identify them as personal home pages or blogs, like those hosted on Geocities and Tripod. If a site is identified as a personal home page or blog, its traffic ranking will have an asterisk (*) next to it: Personal Page Avg. Traffic Rank: 3,456*. Personal pages are ranked on the same scale as a regular domain, so a personal page ranked 3,456* is the 3,456th most popular page among Alexa users.