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copied!<p><em><strong>Hello</em></strong> <em><strong>Shamit</em></strong>!</p> <p>Officially, there's no fixed value - but lets try to derive the <strong><em>real</em></strong> amount of <em>visitors</em>.</p> <p>For this example, I am using real, yet example values - I am not responsible for mistaken calculations as this may be changing every day (as far as Alexa is able to?).. Okay, lets' begin. <strong><em>Edit:</em></strong> I just want to add: there's <strong>no</strong> way to at least nearly determine the <em>real-world</em> values "precisely".</p> <p><em>What's shown?</em> 1st column: the day. 2nd column: the alexa rank. 3rd column: the Google Analytics page-view values corresponding to the <em>Alexa-values</em>.</p> <p>Website 1</p> <pre><code>July 12th 0.0008 220403 July 26th 0.00058 266596 August 6th 0.0004 118727 </code></pre> <p>Website 2</p> <pre><code>July 12th 0.0002 59628 July 26th 0.0001 72821 August 6th 0.0001 71239 </code></pre> <p>Website 3</p> <pre><code>July 12th 0.0001 45178 July 26th 0.0001 37790 August 6th 0.0001 27290 </code></pre> <p>Website 4</p> <pre><code>July 12th 0.0007 341092 July 26th 0.0007 431614 August 6th 0.0003 27893 </code></pre> <p>Website 5</p> <pre><code>July 12th 0.0001 60716 July 26th 0.0001 54384 August 6th 0.00005 49529 </code></pre> <p>From these sample sites, there are obvious changes in consistency. For sample <strong>Website 1</strong> on July 12th there were 220,403 page views giving an Alexa global page views of 0.0008%, but on July 26th 40,000 more page views (266,596) results in Alexa giving a lower percentage of global page views, 0.00058.</p> <p>Continuing to sample <strong>Website 2</strong>, on July 12th 59,628 resulted in 0.0002% of global page views and two weeks later 10,000 more page views (72,821) gave a lower Alexa percentage, 0.0001%.</p> <p>Finally in sample <strong>Website 5</strong>‘s data July 12th and July 26th data is consistent with a difference of 6,332 page views (60,716 – 54,384) giving the same Alexa percentage in both cases 0.0001%. However, on August 6th the site page views drops to 49529, approximately 5,000 less page views, but the Alexa percentage halves to 0.00005%, not a relative representation of the change in page views.</p> <p>Sites gaining an Alexa rank of approximately 0.0001% have a wide range of traffic figures suggesting that the Long Tail effect is apparent in this range of sites which must be densely populated. The lowest traffic I have recorded within the 0.0001% range is <strong>Website 3</strong> with 27,290 page views and the highest is <strong>Website 2</strong> with 72,821 page views. With a difference of almost 50,000 page views the Alexa ranking for sites of this size must be densely populated with large change in ranks from relatively small changes in page views.</p> <p>However, sites with page views within this range (27,290 to 72,821 page views) do not have corresponding Alexa global page views percentages. <strong>Website 4</strong> on August 6th fits within the 0.0001% range from Google analytic page view data (27,893 page views), but Alexa gave a global page views percentage of <strong>0.0003%</strong>, 0.0002% higher, revealing clear inaccuracies in Alexa ranking. Due to these inaccuracies I feel it is impossible to attempt to calculate the real world value in page views of a reach of 0.0001% from Alexa.</p>

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