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Tags: , , , ]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/pagerank_update_april_2008 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:08:38 GMT Now a Dofollow blog
This is only on a trial basis, as there is a risk of abuse, but hopefully it'll be permanent!

Tags: , , ]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/now_a_dofollow_blog Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:09:31 GMT Real time website statistics Live Web Stats, which is now out of beta and available for webmasters with PHP and MySQL on their servers to purchase and install.

A demo page is here.

Tags: , , , , ]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/real_time_website_statistics Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:54:20 GMT Google Pagerank Update January 2008
Tags: , , , ]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/google_pagerank_update_january_2008 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:00:50 GMT Google PageRank update for July 2007 has started! improve your Google PageRank, you might be interested to know that the website rankings are now just starting to change. Keep watching that PageRank button on your Google Toolbar for, hopefully, a higher number!

Tags: , , ]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/google_pagerank_update_for_july_2007_has_started Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:10:02 GMT Live Web Stats demo page of what I'm talking about.

This is still in beta, but if you're interested in installing Live Web Stats on your website, find out more here.

Tags: , , ]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/live_web_stats Thu, 31 May 2007 22:36:15 GMT How accurate is Alexa?
Alexa gathers its statistics using the Alexa Toolbar which is an add-on to Internet Explorer. There's the first problem - there's no official Firefox version. (I say official because there is this Firefox extension, but I'm not convinced that it sends home browsing statistics). I think most would agree that the more savvy web user will tend to use Firefox in preference to IE... and they'll sift through more of the web than the average surfer. But, being affiliated to Amazon.com, you'd think it would have enough users to provide statistical reliability anyway. I guess the more popular you website is, the more reliable the figures are. (Other problems include extra browsing lag and occasional crashes.)

So what percentage of internet users are estimated to have the Alexa Toolbar installed? Alexa doesn't say. On the basis of Nimisis.com's numbers in the last few months, I would guess that it's about one in 600. Not a lot. Still, this will no doubt vary according to the country, among other variables. Below are some graphs for Nimisis.com and you can see there is some correlation.

Alexa stats showing "Daily Reach" in percent.
Google Analytics stats (accurate) showing unique visitors per day
In the end I think Alexa stats can be useful and do have their place. Nowadays it can be difficult to gauge whether a professional looking website actually is one that draws a significant crowd and has any authority. Sure, there are groups that artifically ramp up their rankings by more or less randomly traversing through each other's sites - so don't trust the stats completely. For a second and third opinion, try Quantcast.com and Compete.com, but these are smaller than Alexa. I just think Google, with their huge Google Toolbar user base would gather much more accurate stats. Come on Google!

Tags: , , ]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/how_accurate_is_alexa_ Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:46:32 GMT Google PageRank Calculator Google PageRank calculator. If you have a website and want to do some search engine optimisation this will hopefully be a useful tool.

I thought I'd also use this entry as a place where comments can be posted for PR score comparison purposes, so feel free to add what your site scored, how many pages were crawled and the number of calculation iterations performed.

Tags: , , , ]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/google_pagerank_calculator Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:01:21 GMT