Author Topic: Alexa lists Metro Jacksonville's reach on the rise.  (Read 5149 times)

JeffreyS

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Alexa lists Metro Jacksonville's reach on the rise.
« on: June 04, 2009, 11:53:11 AM »
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Yesterday   0.0002%
7 day avg   0.00021%
1 month avg   0.00021%
3 month avg   0.000146%
3 month change   70%

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.metrojacksonville.com%2Fforum%2Findex.php%3Faction%3Dunread
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Re: Alexa lists Metro Jacksonville's reach on the rise.
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2009, 12:51:59 PM »
Interesting info and site.  Another site with even more detail is Google Analytics but I think that is password protected for the webmaster only.

Your numbers were for percentage of global internet traffic.  Here is "traffic rank" which is also up (i.e. the lower the number the better):

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Alexa traffic rank for metrojacksonville.com:

Yesterday No data
7 day avg 327,921
1 month avg 348,714
3 month avg 510,182
3 month change -427,903 

« Last Edit: June 04, 2009, 12:56:11 PM by stjr »
Hey!  Whatever happened to just plain ol' COMMON SENSE!!

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Re: Alexa lists Metro Jacksonville's reach on the rise.
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2009, 12:55:14 PM »
I have a widget that shows the traffic rank of each page I go to and Google is #1 so I think the lower your number the better.
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Re: Alexa lists Metro Jacksonville's reach on the rise.
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2009, 12:57:28 PM »
I have a widget that shows the traffic rank of each page I go to and Google is #1 so I think the lower your number the better.

Yes, I just revised my post.  I misread their explanation but got it on a rereading.  Thanks.
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Re: Jacksonville Web Scene Ranked
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2009, 07:50:36 AM »
But how does this relate to rail?

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Re: Jacksonville Web Scene Ranked
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2009, 08:30:50 AM »
Impressive.  Keep up the good work.
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Re: Jacksonville Web Scene Ranked
« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2009, 10:11:02 AM »
You guys are doing a good job, but don't get too excited about alexa data. It is very skewed.

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Re: Jacksonville Web Scene Ranked
« Reply #7 on: June 08, 2009, 10:53:54 AM »
Highest time per user and we beat one of the news stations' websites, not bad at all.

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Re: Jacksonville Web Scene Ranked
« Reply #8 on: June 08, 2009, 05:09:04 PM »

Congrats to MetroJax for the high placement.  However I agree with John about Alexa. 

Quantcast.com and Compete.com both provide much more accurate comparitive measurement tools. 

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Re: Jacksonville Web Scene Ranked
« Reply #9 on: June 08, 2009, 07:39:15 PM »
The only problem with compete and quantcast is that they do not have any stats on most of Jacksonville's smaller sites.

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Re: Jacksonville Web Scene Ranked
« Reply #10 on: June 08, 2009, 10:09:51 PM »
These can't be right. In fact, I know they're not, it's alexa:)
jacksonville.com is how all sites should model their site from, including this one. It's clean, renders nice in firefox and they're mobile site is full featured. Zooming on metrojacksonville.com is still a DISASTER!
I wish sites would just conform to standards:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.metrojacksonville.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

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Re: Alexa lists Metro Jacksonville's reach on the rise.
« Reply #11 on: June 08, 2009, 10:12:31 PM »
^This might be a difference of opinion, but I personally thing Jacksonville.com is a terrible site.  The new version, launched a couple months ago, sucks less.

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Re: Alexa lists Metro Jacksonville's reach on the rise.
« Reply #12 on: June 08, 2009, 10:16:30 PM »
coredumped - Please find me a major website not called mozilla.com that fully passes the w3 standards.

I tried cnn.com, cnbc.com. microsoft.com, google.com, apple.com, and a few others.

Amazon.com has 1731 errors.  It hasn't seemed to hold them back.

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Re: Alexa lists Metro Jacksonville's reach on the rise.
« Reply #13 on: June 08, 2009, 10:41:58 PM »
Steve, I understand it's hard to find a site that conforms to exact standards, they're pretty harsh, but because many popular sites ignore standards doesn't mean all sites should!

Look at how bad the CSS is on metrojacksonville when using zooming:


^^close to edge on left...........................Cut off on right below


Things get cut off everywhere, most sites would scroll

jaxoutloud only has 3 errors on the validator and renders beautifully, even when zooming.

Please take these as constructive criticisms, as that was my intent.  ;D
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Re: Alexa lists Metro Jacksonville's reach on the rise.
« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2009, 01:57:38 PM »
Coredumped, some of the things you suggested have been fixed. We keep working to improve it.
« Last Edit: June 09, 2009, 01:59:59 PM by Lunican »