Alexa

[Nomar]

What do you guys think of alexa ?? useful? why? and why not?

[Lukehluke]

I think its useful as it helps get an idea about how popular a website could be for example competing sites.

Its not amazing accurate but still, it helps.

[Nomar]

True, for some sites it does not say anything, but for the webmaster niche kind of sites, you can get an idea of where its going

[synchar]

It doesn't seem to do a whole lot of good for me but I'm usually only dealing with very small sites that don't show up or are so low traffic the information given is not terribly helpful...Or accurate.

[Lukehluke]

Also I think its interesting just to see what Alexa ranks the big sites are compared to each other e.g. youtube and megavideo.

[niks00789]

alexa is not accurate i think
the more u get close to 100000, the repulsive force starts acting and then ur rank will start increasing till it gets away from 100k

[Akshay]

Alexa is suitable for the short one.it is not accurate and specially design for the new commercial applications.

[Lukehluke]

I think its a helpful tool for a webmaster and would be even better if people on browsers other than Firefox could use it (help build more reliable stats).

[Nomar]

FireFox should implement it standard at the next big update! That would give an accurate view of traffic on sites! Would be nice to see!

[Lukehluke]

That's a good idea but I don't think it would happen.