Measuring your website traffic is necessary, but how do you rank in your industry?  Better yet, how do you rank against you competitors?  What does your reach look like? How does it change the organic search results?

If these are questions that you have asked yourself, or answers you want to know…Alexa

Alexa LogoAlexa is an online service that measures traffic for millions of sites on the Internet in a similar way to Nielsen television show ratings.  It allows you to measure differences between your business site in a competitive market.  Websites that have a Alexa rank under 100,000 ranking (like a golf score, the lower the better)   have very detailed data relating to demographic information.

 

Below you will find more information about Alexa.com, however if you have questions or need help on this topic, please call Chris at 720.427.3707.


 

Alexa Demographics

To put it in perspective here are the top U.S. sight as of 4/11/2011

Top Sites in United States

The top 500 sites in United States. The sites in the top sites lists are ordered by their 1 month alexa traffic rank.

The 1 month rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews over the past month. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1.

  • 1

    Google

    google.com

    Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and tra… Morenslation of results, and an option to find similar pages. The company’s focus is developing search technology.
  • 2

    Facebook

    facebook.com

    A social utility that connects people, to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and … Morevideos.
  • 3

    Yahoo!

    yahoo.com

    A major internet portal and service provider offering search results, customizable content, cha… Moretrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager.
  • 4

    YouTube – Broadcast yourself

    youtube.com

    YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share your… More videos worldwide!
  • 5

    Amazon.com

    amazon.com

    Amazon.com seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and disc… Moreover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Site has numerous personalization features and services including one-click buying, extensive customer and editorial product reviews, gift registries, gift certificates, wish lists, restaurant and movie listings, travel, and photo processing.
  • 6

    Wikipedia

    wikipedia.org

    A free encyclopedia built collaboratively using wiki software. (Creative Commons Attribution-Sh… MoreareAlike License).
  • 7

    Twitter

    twitter.com

    Social networking and microblogging service utilising instant messaging, SMS or a web interface..
  • 8

    Blogger.com

    blogspot.com

    Free, automated weblog publishing tool that sends updates to a site via FTP.
  • 9

    eBay

    ebay.com

    International person to person auction site, with products sorted into categories.
  • 10

    Craigslist.org

    craigslist.org

 

About Alexa:

Founded in April 1996, Alexa Internet grew out of a vision of intelligent Web navigation constantly improving through its users. Since then, our Alexa users have downloaded millions of Toolbars, and Alexa has created one of the largest Web crawls, and developed the infrastructure to process and serve massive amounts of data.

For users of the Alexa Toolbar and our website, the results are products that have revolutionized Web navigation and intelligence. For developers, this has led to a set of tools unprecedented in scope, allowing whole new services to be created with Alexa data. – Data taken from Alexa.com