SensoryMetrics

Last year, one of our local tech papers added a link listing their top local (Ottawa Canada) blogs. I was curious to see how we all stacked up Alexa-wise… Here’s the top 10.

24,938 – John Roese (Nortel CTO )
35,137 – Jonathan Snook (SEO)
120,375 – Tom Green (laughs)
185,378 – Michael Geist (freedom fighter)
195,197 – PhoenixRealm (code)
245,998 – Alec Saunders (VoIP)
280,052 – SensoryMetrics (You Are Here!!)
280,994 – Box Of Chocolates (accessibility)
287,959 – 76 Design (less than 100 designs)
326,469 – Brendon Hodgon (brendon)

[tags]ottawa-blogs, alexa[/tags]

Popularity: 29%

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We’ve been surprised to see how quickly our site has grown in such a short period of time. From non existent to near the 1 million rank on Alexa. It may not seem like much of achievement to you, but for us we’re very excited and thrilled to have discovered such a wonderful audience of regular readers!

[tags]Alexa[/tags]

Popularity: 14%

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User Experience Alexa

Ok, so a web browser is what you look at web sites with and Alexa is used to browse a list of web sites. It’s a great starting point to find out which sites are popular. Unfortunately, what I find one day just isn’t there a few weeks later. If you find something good, bookmark it, otherwise you might not find it again.

I wish Alexa would get rid of it’s archaic way of listing sites by category subjects alone. Instead, it’d be nice to see something that works along the lines of Apple’s garageband which has multiple tags that you can turn on and off. It’d make looking through the categories much easier. You’d no longer have to drill down inside each category so see the sub-categories within.

From MIT’s Haystack Group comes a clever javascript implementation called Exhibit that might do the trick. Unfortunately, Exhibit is limited to small data sets, but it should be enough to browse Alexa’s web site subject categories.

[tags]Alexa,Exhibit[/tags]

Popularity: 22%

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