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http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=verisign.com [full post mirrored from Interesting People] Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:54:28 -0400 To: [email protected] From: Dave Farber <[email protected]> Subject: [IP] Quantifying SiteFinder Traffic >Delivered-To: [email protected] >From: "Ben Edelman" <[email protected]> >To: "'Dave Farber'" <[email protected]> >Subject: Quantifying SiteFinder Traffic >Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:44:30 -0400 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 >Importance: Normal > >Dave, > >IP readers may be interested in a sense of just how much traffic VeriSign is >receiving from its SiteFinder service. Alexa, with its Alexa Toolbar and >associated traffic tracking services, makes it easy to find out: > ><http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=verisign.com> > >The highlights -- > >Over the past three months, taken as a whole, Verisign had traffic rank >1,559. But today its traffic rank is 19 -- meaning, at least among Alexa >users (who are generally representative of web users), the verisign.com >domain has suddenly become joined the top 20 sites, measured by page views. > >VeriSign's climb is even more notable when reckoned in "reach" -- proportion >of users who visit the site at least once. Measured in this way, >verisign.com is now in position 9 -- meaning there are only eight sites on >the web that more users visit in a given day. > >All that said, users don't tend to stay on verisign.com for long. Notice >page views rank of 45, far below the traffic rank, meaning that users tend >to stay on other sites for a longer duration (more page views) than on >verisign.com. > > >Ben Edelman >Berkman Center for Internet & Society >Harvard Law School >http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/edelman |