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What is Your Website's Popularity Rank?

There are more than 3.8 million websites in the world. Where does your website stack up? Thanks to Alexa, you can find out now!

What is Alexa and Website Popularity Ranking?

How many visitors does your website get and how often do they visit? In 1996, Alexa created programming that follows users around the internet to determine just that. By adding Alexa to a browser's toolbar, websites can be ranked according to the number of times users have visited that site in the past six months. Since 1999, both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator have included Alexa programming in their tool sets.

Find out YOUR web site's rank at Alexa now! (Page opens in new window)
(Type your website's URL in the "Search the web" box and it will give you your rank.)

How do they do it?

Alexa computes traffic rankings by analyzing the Web usage of millions of users. The information is sorted, sifted, anonymized, counted, and computed, until, finally, we get the traffic rankings shown in the Alexa service. The Alexa user base is very large and is a very good representation of relative web traffic. And now Alexa has a seperate toolbar that will give you a website's rank anytime you surf the internet. The toolbar is free - download yours now (Page opens in new window) and watch it in action!

Why doesn't my site show up?

Perhaps your site is too new or has not had much traffic yet. If you would like to tell Alexa to "crawl" your site, then visit http://pages.alexa.com/help/webmasters/#crawl_site. (Page opens in new window) Alexa will include your site in the next crawl of the web, usually within 8 weeks of submission.

How is Alexa's Popularity Rank different from Google's Page Rank?

Alexa measures website popularity based on visits to the website. Google measures link popularity based on search terms. Google uses a sophisticated algorithm for given search terms that are linked by other reputable sites (measured by how many sites link to them, in a never-ending cycle of reputation measurement). Those sites are then given a "rank" between 0 and 10. The more a website page matches the keyword search algorithm, the higher the "rank" assigned to that page. (Ranks of 7+ are rarely seen on smaller websites. Those numbers are usually reserved for the big sites such as Google, AOL, MSN, etc.)

Where to next?

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