Alexa Junkies Rejoice

by Michael Arrington on March 11, 2006

For those Alexa junkies out there, Ron Hornbaker emailed to tell me about his newly launched Alexaholic, a strikingly better front end for accessing Alexa data. It’s much faster than Alexa, allows for easy adding and removing of sites and has additional features such as “data smoothing”. Alexaholic also provides a code snippet to include an alexa chart in a web page.

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berlin - March 11th, 2006 at 9:22 pm PST

=//////=nothing

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Mike - March 11th, 2006 at 9:58 pm PST

Alexa’s overrated. I know no one in my country who uses their toolbar.

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Greg - March 11th, 2006 at 10:16 pm PST

Very cool. Let the evolution of interfaces continue!

It seems like everyone is obsessed with Alexa these days. There are alternatives to Alexa out there - such as http://www.consumerinput.com

Aren’t two sources of data better than one?

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Saul Weiner - March 11th, 2006 at 10:22 pm PST

I’ve been using it for a few days to check out competing CRM traffic (especially since you see API traffic for many of these sites. Quite interesting.

Techcrunch gets some crazy traffic I see

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Ted - March 12th, 2006 at 12:31 am PST

Fantastic.

For the alexa haters, you should note that they started using non-toolbar data in their mix several months ago.

It still is very US-centric though.

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Serge - March 12th, 2006 at 1:29 am PST

jesus, techcrunch gets 2000 (1/3 of what facebook gets) for every million, owww. What a great business model Mike. Forget edgio, techcrunch is the real winner in web 2.0 cloud…

of course this is only based on alexa toolbar, but still..

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Massimo Moruzzi - March 12th, 2006 at 1:52 am PST

Yeah, Alexa’s hardly perfect. But what is? And, anyway, Alexa’s fun. And free. And now using it just got 100 times better. Thanks for the post and thanks Ron. Great job!

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Jay - March 12th, 2006 at 9:10 am PST

Thanks.
Alexa is like crack for the Internet world.

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Ted - March 12th, 2006 at 9:29 am PST

Maybe you didn’t read my comment, Serge, but Alexa is now no longer based on the toolbar alone.

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Greg - March 12th, 2006 at 11:00 am PST

ConsumerInput is interesting.

They seem to take things one-step further by actually trying to estimate # of unique visitors to a site..

From their website:

“Applying a projection methodology which normalizes the demographic composition of the community, Consumer Input can estimate the actual visitor population of each site visited by Consumer Input members.”

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Blaze - March 12th, 2006 at 2:46 pm PST

This one is actually very useful and quick. Thanks for the heads up i’ll use this.

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Russell Limprecht - March 12th, 2006 at 4:05 pm PST

I did a Techcrunch on Alexaholic here.

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Irving - October 11th, 2006 at 6:33 am PDT

Is Alexaholic in the deadpool now? The site has been returning an error now for some time…

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