Relic Boards traffic ranking :)

[Rodimus]

http://info.alexa.com/data/details?url=forums.relicnews.com

#1,127,228



http://info.alexa.com/data/details?url=www.google.com

#2

[reki]

The Guidestone Traffic Rank: 2,044,584

HWU Traffic Rank: 4,547,113

HAHAHAHA sorry...



The Guidestone:

News, downloads, screen shots, maps, forums, music, interactive stories, postcards, strategy of the day, and listing of armadas.

wtf who hid all the music, postcards and interactive stories from me?

[Harmanoff]

Reki you know quite well you only have a higher ranking because there's a bunch of people looking for those postcards...

[HunterX]

Hrm.... well aparantly my site is so off the map that I don't even get a rank.... how annoying...

[SajuukCor]

http://info.alexa.com/data/details?url=screens.relicnews.com

#3,348,079

Take THAT #3,348,080!

[FoX]

I f'ing own you all

Avg. Traffic Rank: 82,693

http://info.alexa.com/data/details?q=&url=www.d.umn.edu/~ctaffe/HW

[Langy]

Well... shows how accurate THAT site is, no?

:D

[hougy]

oh yea?

http://info.alexa.com/data/details?url=amazid.net

75% people downloading cstrike off of me using Steam

[ceejayoz]

Originally posted by reki
The Guidestone Traffic Rank: 2,044,584

HWU Traffic Rank: 4,547,113

HAHAHAHA sorry...

Actually, HWU traffic rank:

Avg. Traffic Rank: 9,842

http://info.alexa.com/data/details?url=dynamic2.gamespy.com/~homeworld/

Use the proper URL :D

bwahahaha, owned, reki

[Mac_Bug]

alexa packing spyware using freaks!

[reki]

HA thats cheating ceejay. it uses the domain for its search so you are stealing gamespy's fire. how many people request the gamespy address anyway?

lol to prove a point: geocities hosted Kiith Sectau are ranked at 55. popular clan that one....

[ceejayoz]

HA thats cheating ceejay. it uses the domain for its search so you are stealing gamespy's fire. how many people request the gamespy address anyway?

False. Compare the results for dynamic2.gamespy.com (http://info.alexa.com/data/details?url=dynamic2.gamespy.com) with dynamic2.gamespy.com/~homeworld/ (http://info.alexa.com/data/details?url=dynamic2.gamespy.com/~homeworld/) - note the difference.

As for how many people use the dynamic2 address - everyone. HWUniverse.com, fleet-command.com, hfc.blurzero.com, and strategyplanet.com/homeworld all redirect to the dynamic2 address, 'cause Gamespy doesn't let us use their nameservers.

u = fail, reki :p


lol to prove a point: geocities hosted Kiith Sectau are ranked at 55. popular clan that one....

The reason for that is that Geoshitties links are in the format www.geocities.com/username whereas Gamespy links are in the format www.gamespy.com/~username - the ~ symbol tells Alexa that it's a separate site, so it keeps different stats. (the ~ is standard for a username on a webserver)

[reki]

hehe.. sry ceej but you're failing more and more with each post. so by that, you are saying that hwu is five times more popular than planetwolfenstein, who have over 12, 000 members and a quarter of a million posts in their forums. sry but no.

{rekijayoz}

[GuaRRand]

MUWHAHAHAHAHAHA

GLCOTI: Avg. Traffic Rank: 5,276,332 (http://info.alexa.com/data/details?url=www.glcoti.com)

:ninja:

[ceejayoz]

Originally posted by reki
hehe.. sry ceej but you're failing more and more with each post. so by that, you are saying that hwu is five times more popular than planetwolfenstein, who have over 12, 000 members and a quarter of a million posts in their forums. sry but no.

{rekijayoz}

How d'you explain the numbers, then? :p

[Soulblighter]

you hitting refresh

gs > all

[ÜberJumper]

I suggest you yahoo's all read http://client.alexa.com/destination_site/html/traffic_learn_more.html


How is traffic rank calculated
The overall rank is based on three months of historical traffic data and is a combined measure of "reach" and "pageviews." Reach is determined by counting the number of Alexa Toolbar users who visit a site on any given day. Pageviews is the total number of URL requests for a site by Alexa users. However, multiple requests on the same day by the same user for the same URL are counted as a single pageview.

Some Important Disclaimers
The traffic data is based on the set of Alexa users, which may not be a representative sample of the global Internet population. Known biases include (but are likely not limited to) the following:

-Our users are disproportionately likely to visit alexa.com and archive.org, and traffic to these sites is substantially overcounted.
-The Alexa Toolbar works only with the Internet Explorer browser. Sites frequented mainly by users of other browsers will be undercounted. For example, the AOL/Netscape browser is not supported, which means that Alexa collects little data from AOL users, and our traffic to aol.com is likely lower than it would be for a more representative sample.
-The Alexa Toolbar works only on Windows operating systems. Traffic to sites which are disproportionately visited by users of other operating systems will be undercounted.
-The rate of adoption of Alexa software in different parts of the world may vary widely due to advertising locality, language, and other geographic and cultural factors. For example, Korean sites are prominent among our top-ranked sites, but it is unknown to what extent this reflects high rates of general Internet usage in Korea.
-In some cases traffic data may also be adversely affected by our "site" definitions. With tens of millions of hosts on the Internet, our automated procedures for determining which hosts are serving the "same" content may be incorrect and/or out-of-date. Similarly, the determinations of domains and home pages may not always be accurate.


So basically it's a count of how many Alexa users hit HWU.

[molo]

What the hell is alexa?

[ÜberJumper]

EXACTLY

[ceejayoz]

Originally posted by molotov
What the hell is alexa?
It's a little toolbar / spyware thingy... came installed on Netscape for a while, then Amazon.com bought it out. They've got about 6 million users, apparently.

[GuaRRand]

OK...but..WHAT DOES THIS TOOLBAR DO??

And should we get it like mindless trendfollowers?? :):dunce:

[Fitz]

It reads all the pr0n links on your HD and then sends the best bits to 2 places.

1) Some geek who wrote the code.

2) The US government.

[Shin]

The primary postulates here are the following:

1. Traffic is ranked based on hits of people using alexa
2. Alexa is spyware
3. 1337 uzrs k33p teh spyw@re ded

We can therefore conclude, in regard to the matter of HWU vs GS ranking, that HWU has more users using spyware than GS.

HWU uzrs = cl00l3z n00b33z
GS uzrs = 1337

[IcecreamLtDan]

Dah Komrad. I concure completely.

[ceejayoz]

Originally posted by Shin
The primary postulates here are the following:

1. Traffic is ranked based on hits of people using alexa
2. Alexa is spyware
3. 1337 uzrs k33p teh spyw@re ded

We can therefore conclude, in regard to the matter of HWU vs GS ranking, that HWU has more users using spyware than GS.

HWU uzrs = cl00l3z n00b33z
GS uzrs = 1337

Or HWU just gets massively higher hits. Why, you ask? Oh, yeah, we have content, don't we. ;)

teehee

[frstkor13]

are you trying to say that a cute little squirrel, a hot chick, a panda, a failed government attempt at AI, and a man who was once trapped under a fridge are not content?

you are failure personafied.

[ceejayoz]

They'd be content if they ever posted anything ;)