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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Alexa’s overrated. I know no one in my country who uses their toolbar.
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?
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
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.
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..
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!
Thanks.
Alexa is like crack for the Internet world.
Maybe you didn’t read my comment, Serge, but Alexa is now no longer based on the toolbar alone.
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.”
This one is actually very useful and quick. Thanks for the heads up i’ll use this.
I did a Techcrunch on Alexaholic here.
Is Alexaholic in the deadpool now? The site has been returning an error now for some time…
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