A website owner objected on my references to a site in the context of popularity. I promptly apologised. But he was not satisfied. He then asked me to remove all references to that site from my website.
Okay sir, feel happy. I removed all the references.
Today I am going to educate my visitors about the ranking business.
Rankings for a website have the same value circulation figures have for print media. Very often there is war of words with the quoted figures. You dispute it when they go against you. Fortunately there are lots and lots of ranking businesses on the net and they do their job in their own way. Some are good, some not so good.
So let us see where the differences arise:
Hits or visits are described by each ranking site or webanalyser in its own way and there is no uniform definition.
Some treat every call to the hosting server as a hit or visit. And some times there are hundreds of call on a single page!
Some treat each call to the server for all the pages visited as separate hits, further inflating the figures.
Whereas some treat a visit a single visit for all the pages visited within a specified time. Here the hits figure suddenly comes below!
Again there are disputes on the issue of visits and visitors. When someone visits a site at one go it is called one visit. If after a gap of some specified time that someone visits again it is called another visit. But the visitor is the same! So number of visitors is always lower than the number of visits.
Further complicating the process is the question of Absolutely Uique Visitors or People count. Absolutely Unique visitor is one visitor irrespective of how many times that visitor visits that site in agiven month! Naturally, Absolute Unique Visitors or the People Count is always lower than the number of visitors.
To give you an example for my own site, Anjoria.com, I am quoting data from Google Analytics.
For the last thirty days, i.e from 28th Nov 2007 to 28th Dec 2007 it was visited 1557 times by only 897 visitors. So the number of my vistors is only 897.
Of this many are bouncers, they come to my site by mistake and rapidly go away or do not open another page as they do not find anything interesting! So the real figure comes down again! During this period bounce rate was about 36%. So more than one third of my visitors go away without having a look on my site. This take the number of Absolute Unique Visitors to about 600. So only 600 people spread in the whole world visit Anjoria.com in a month and I have a position! Shame on me!
You see the whole document yourself.
But I am not ashamed. I am such a lousy person!
Some sites you can use to see and compare any site of your choice are given below:
Visit them if you want and see for yourself how correct or wrong I am.
दरपन झूठ ना बोले. जो सच है तेरे सामने आये, हँस ले चाहे रो ले.
The sites are:
Alexa
Quantcast
Compete
Sitebrain
In additon there are sites which require registration to view your data. I have a few of them with Anjoria. But you cannot see data for any other site.
So they have only one value that Anjoria is open with its data. I am ready to share, and am sharing these data with my visitors. Just click on the number of visitors shown on the pages of Anjoria.com and you will see for yourself all the data you want. As I dont have money to pay for these services, the data is limited to 200 visits only.
But then Anjoria is a small fry of the Bhojpuri world any one can crush it anyday with his might. Who says might is not right!
