Comments on: Social Media Nosedive – Alexa Shows Recent Drops Across the Board

By: Armen

Armen — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:19:13 +0000

This is old now I suppose, but for the benefit of anyone who may read this, I think it’s probably more to do with the shuffle made at Alexa recently in how the make up their rankings. There were a few changes, and this drop across SM sites, may be a result of that.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:09:58 +0000

The drop seems to be a fairly even amount across all sites..

By: Gerard

Gerard — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:56:10 +0000

JD,

You know someone posted Digg’s Alexa data over at the Mixxing Bowl forums noting the decline in traffic. I did the same thing you just did right here – looked at all the social news sites together. I saw the same thing and had about the same reaction you did. I started thinking “is social bookmarking activity declining”?

Needless to say, these numbers worry me. Then again, I have no idea how the hell Alexa gets its data; its own info on this is very vague. There could be a lot of reasons for the decline across the board. Direct traffic to the sites in question, maybe? (I mean unless Digg, Mixx, etc. give Alexa this data on a day to day basis, they wouldn’t be able to measure that. Would they?)

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:02:37 +0000

I don’t think there is anything overly wrong. Could well be due to the fact that Easter was really early this year and festive periods normally mess up peoples routines.

By: JD Rucker

JD Rucker — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:02:15 +0000

@Dave – you’re right. Compete is a little slower at posting their data, and in all fairness to you, I didn’t have my ducks in a row before your comment. Now that the images of the alexa data is up, you can see what I was seeing.

I actually prefer compete, but I do like Alexa’s day to day tracking versus monthly tracking on compete.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:58:53 +0000

Hmmm…. I ran them through Compete and it doesn’t support that. So what can U do? While Compete can be sketchy, I’d put a little more weight in it than Alexa.

2c -Dave