The weird of web "metrics"
Motto : <kakobrekla> Isn't Alexa rank like rand()*2/2?
On one hand, there's
So like... really ?! I'm THAT big in India ?
It got me thinking that who knows, that Shanti Dynamite chick is so into me she's reading Trilema compulsively and has an Alexa toolbar installed or something.
Then, I checked the Awstats for last month (which, while not necessarily more informative than any other random measure of nonsense, are nevertheless somewhat closer derived from actually verifiable data) :
That the US and its smaller, poorer cousin the UK are shown as 20%/10% in one source and 500k / 30k in another source I could perhaps see as a result of you know... errors. But picking up the 34th, moving it to first position and giving it a 20`000% stat boost in the process ? It's just a teensy bit rich, no ?
Sotto : See motto.
Sunday, 7 December 2014
They fixed it now!
Sunday, 7 December 2014
Lol look at that! How things can swing in a day ? (I thought that's a longer average, maybe a month or three).
Sunday, 7 December 2014
So what's the problem? For a 30 day average to move 10% in a single day you need merely a 300% outlier that day, no big deal.
Sunday, 7 December 2014
Upwards only, but who's gonna notice such things.
Sunday, 7 December 2014
Also depends on how divergent the dataset is.
Monday, 8 December 2014
This is true, but really, the #1 spot ? Shouldn't be that divergent.