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Messing up the web statistics

Postby Sotos » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:16 am

from http://www.financialmirror.com/more_news.php?id=6572
Financialmirror.com continues to remain Cyprus’ most visited and popular web site, attracting more than 120.000 unique visitors on average during the first three months of 2007 with page views at 980.000 and the number of hits during the first quarter reaching 2.95 mln.

The first-quarter figures show a clear improvement over the average 2006 monthly figures where financialmirror.com attracted on average 83.658 unique visitors and over 10 mln hits on 4 mln page views.

The financialmirror.com web site also compares favourably to other web sites in Cyprus. Based on a report published in Saturday’s Politis, which quoted web comparison site alexa.com, here as well financialmirror.com continues to maintain the edge.

Compared to alexa.com traffic rank based on a combined measure of page views and users, financialmirror.com is Cyprus’ most visited site with a total of 227.675 weekly users and 161.683 three-months average users according to data as at April 8, 2007.

According to the same alexa.com statistics, Simerini had 137.260 users, the Cyprus Mail 108.671, Phileleftheros 36.855, Stockwatch 20.685 and Politis 19.613 users based on the last three-months average traffic.

Just about half of our web site visitors or 52.4% are from Cyprus, 20.6% from the UK, 7.9% from Greece, 6.3% from the US and 3.2% from Spain and other EU countries.

Updated on a daily basis and continuously rolling news, financialmirror.com includes politics, business and finance as well as IT news in English as well as major CSE announcements and news in Greek.

Our daily Greek language electronic edition, Xpress, may also be downloaded free of charge from financialmirror.com in PDF format, while subscribers to the online service may also secure access to Financial Mirror’s vast ‘News Archives’ and ‘Research Centre’ in electronic form, which has become very popular with major international and local research institutions and financial organisations.

Financialmirror.com is also one of the first web sites in Cyprus to provide its content through an RSS feed to other sites, while our continuous news feed is also read through many other web sites, such as Google News.


Financial mirror got the statistics in reverse :lol: They confused the Alexa rank with the amount of users. The lower the ranking number the better. Yahoo is number 1 in the world and Google number 2 according to Alexa. Financialmirror rank is 161.683 and they saw that number and they thought it means amount of users :roll: So they get the fewer from all other newspapers and not the most as they say. :P
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Postby Crivens » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:50 pm

Hopefully they won't set wage increases, bonuses, budgets, and new employment on those figures then. Heh, they could then argue they are 10 times the size of Politis and get the larger workforce to surge forward and destroy the competition. Could be a big oops. Surely someone there noticed though....

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Postby lev » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:07 pm

according to alexa cyprus-forum.com better

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traff ... -forum.com

Crivens noticed :) but I think, it is not destroy the competition.
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Postby steveash » Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:39 pm

Alexa only gives a rough amount, its NOT an authority site for traffic, i run web stats all day long and only use Alexa as a rough guide as its dependant upon a user having the Alexa tool bar installed and running when they hit a site, and most people do not have this
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Postby Sotos » Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:45 am

Alexa is only approximate. Steveash, do you know about how many unique visitors a website with rank 100.000 would get approximately?
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Postby steveash » Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:37 pm

someware in the region of 500-1500 unique visits a day
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Postby Sotos » Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:50 pm

steveash wrote:someware in the region of 500-1500 unique visits a day


Thanks. How about a site with a 50.000 rank?
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Postby steveash » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:04 pm

2000-4000 uniques a day, but like i said, its never an exact science tho
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