This post is just for a little bit of fun.
There’s another blogger in town who likes to think of himself as a prime source of news and touts his Alexa rating – once he gets down under 100,000 he’ll be in the “big leagues” with the likes of Fox News, CNN, etc.
So I thought I’d see just where the big leagues are with Alexa ranks and compare his number with some other sites. The first number is world rank and the second number is U.S. rank.
- CNN.com ranks 59 overall and 17 in the United States.
- FoxNews.com is 224 and 38.
- ABCNews.com ranks 467 and 139.
- CBSNews.com currently stands at 1,329 and 347.
Here’s the standing of some of the national commentary sites.
- HuffingtonPost.com leads at 246 and 44 world and U.S. respectively.
- DailyKos.com is next at 3,866 and 1,018.
- Townhall.com is 5,020 worldwide and 1,360 in the United States.
- HumanEvents.com ranks 17,122 and 4,465 respectively.
- RedCounty.com is 73,213 and 17,854. I added that in because it’s a site I contribute to.
How about local and regional media?
- The Washington Post ranks 381 worldwide and 97th nationally.
- Baltimore’s Sun is 3,470 and 960.
- Washington Times ranks 4,736 and 1,107.
- WBOC.com (Channel 16 locally) comes in at 101,466 and 22,437.
- Delmarvanow.com (the Salisbury Daily Times) is 105,556 and 26,680.
- The website in question (local readers know who it is) is 339,103 and 122,926.
- He does beat WMDT.com (Channel 47 locally) which ranks 1,143,577 and 293,809.
Okay, so where do I come in? I have nothing to hide: my ranks are 2,985,720 and 761,846. It ain’t great but I’m not ashamed to put it out there (or my Site Meter for that matter.) It is what it is. All I can do is put the best content I can on this site and that’s what I try to do.
But I thought I’d have a little fun with the guy and give the rest of you a little perspective. Obviously he’s found a way to get pretty good readership but he has a LONG way to go to get to the major leagues – even with getting his mug on television once a week.
Alexa statistics are wildly erratic for sites with small readerships, which includes every Maryland blog. Alexa claims that my site employs 25-100 people, that 100% of the people who enter it come from Google, and that 100% of the people who leave go to Google. Alexa also claims that more people enter my site using the term “mushroom cloud” than “maryland politics,” which is laughable on its face and contradicted by Statcounter.
If the blogger you are talking about wants his statistics verified, he should publish his Sitemeter stats as most of us do. Otherwise, his claims are inherently unverifiable.
Michael,
Also keep in mind that Alexa rankings are only based on statistics gathered through users that actually install the Alexa toolbar… so the sampling size is not representative of the entire Internet.
Having looked into the comment thread at the site in question and analyzing the verbiage used in the comments, it is striking, the majority of comments are written by the same 2-3 people under different names.
It is also not a stretch to assume, bloviating Joe spends an inordinate amount of time clicking on his own posts from computers with a different IP address seperate from his posting IP address. He works from an office downtown with one IP address and goes home using a computer with a different IP.
As an example–the BNN website is losing readership at an ever increasing rate–surprise, surprise, SBY seems to be the only blog getting the majority of clicks. The incongruity is that there are many really good sites, far more intelligent than Joe’s, monitored or shared at BNN, with far superior original content. Those sites or posts are only receiving a half dozen clicks a day and Joe happens to be getting hundreds for ‘pet of the day’ posts. Given the drop in BNN readership, most readers have left BNN and are getting direct feeds, or visiting directly those great sites to avoid going through the massive amount of junk Joe posts through BNN. Six people are certainly not hoovering over Joe’s site with the type of content he has and giving him 150 clicks a day.
Joe has found a way to game the system with using remote locations to click on his own posts to push his numbers. He will not share site stats because the numbers are fudged and come from IP’s either shared or hacked at the local Starbucks or from his home computer. I would venture to say that his numbers are inflated in this manner by 60 to 70 percent, maybe more.
Then again, Joe may be a great blogger and the rest of us may pale in comparison. Nonetheless, I may be missing something and wasted all this time reading the FOX news site instead of being enriched by Joey’s wit and charm. Just saying.
The funniest thing I’ve found is that, even if Joe brings his Alexa rank down by 100 per day it would be about 32 months before he caught up to where delmarvanow.com already is.
Gee, I wonder if I’m going to see pictures of me and my significant other back on his site again?
This guy(Albero) is a circus ringmaster. I love him but he is what he is.
A wireless card changes its IP address everytime it is logged on.
If somebody who has a wireless card wanted to vote multiple times on BNN all they have to do is log off then back on and vote again.