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What In The World? -- Newsvine Spikes Then Valleys

Tue Aug 8, 2006 2:57 PM EDT
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By Ilyanep
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Watching Alexa rankings is a fun way to see what sites became popular at what time. While it may not be good for hard numbers, it's good to use to see trends in visitors to a site. Newsvine appears to have had something interesting occur in their readership.

Alexa rankings for Newsvine.com

If you take a look at the graph, sometime recently Newsvine spiked from about 350 in the "daily reach per million" category to almost 800 and then back to 350 again. I assume that means that 350 users per million visited Newsvine.com?

Anyways, that's a pretty big change; more than double the users. So I wonder what happened recently that would drive so many one-time-only users to Newsvine at once. Would anyone like to take a stab at it?

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Alec Ananian

Tip: don't publish unwritten articles :P

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Reply#1 - Tue Aug 8, 2006 3:16 PM EDT
Alec Ananian

Or maybe my side is messed up...

  • 3 votes
#1.1 - Tue Aug 8, 2006 3:18 PM EDT
Ilyanep

Hmm? No that's all of it.

I wanted to see if any users had any speculations on the recent influx of traffic.

  • 2 votes
#1.2 - Tue Aug 8, 2006 3:18 PM EDT
Alec Ananian

From what I see there is no title or content to this post. Or this one. Maybe it's my problem.

  • 1 vote
#1.3 - Tue Aug 8, 2006 3:21 PM EDT
Ilyanep

Yeah, I think you have some sort of caching problem. I don't think it's anything I can help you with, though.

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#1.4 - Tue Aug 8, 2006 3:40 PM EDT
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finalcut

perhaps the influx was due to the netscape naming of Corey as the "navigator" news of the named navigators was posted on all the big sites (netscape, digg, newsive, etc). Maybe many people at those other sites hadn't heard of NewsVine before that annoucement so they came here after seeing one of the named "navigators" was from newsvine.

  • 2 votes
Reply#2 - Tue Aug 8, 2006 4:53 PM EDT
Corey Spring

Actually if you're talking about the most recent surge, yeah that's my fault, but it was because of the Colbert article I wrote. NV staff will tell ya the same.

  • 4 votes
#2.1 - Tue Aug 8, 2006 5:13 PM EDT
Ilyanep

I figured as much as to why you were at the top for subdomains under newsvine.com, but I didn't think that it would make Newsvine traffic more than double.

    #2.2 - Tue Aug 8, 2006 5:19 PM EDT
    Adam Hobson

    Considering his domain captured only 2% of the traffic, it is quite impossible for just that traffic to have any significant impact on Newsvine.

    • 2 votes
    #2.3 - Tue Aug 8, 2006 6:14 PM EDT
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    insert_name_here

    Could it have been due to the listing of one of Yaakov's pieces (Questions on Qana) on the giyus.org (Give Israel Your United Support) website, which caused the screwed up poll (1000+ votes) on the incident in Qana?

    • 4 votes
    Reply#3 - Tue Aug 8, 2006 6:50 PM EDT
    Ilyanep

    HOLY CRAP!

    Wow

      #3.1 - Tue Aug 8, 2006 7:14 PM EDT
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      Mike D.

      Simple answer: Simply don't believe Alexa charts on any site which gets under about a billion page views a month. We simply see zero correlation between Alexa charts and our own (accurate) counts. Ask any other site owners and they will tell you the same thing. June was a record breaking month, then July broke June's record, and now August will probably break July's record.

      • 10 votes
      Reply#4 - Wed Aug 9, 2006 12:06 AM EDT
      Adam Hobson

      That's a good point. Just how many people have the Alexa toolbar installed, which does the reporting that goes into these stats? Any newsviners here have that? The sample size is probably far to small to get an accurate account of what is really happening.

      • 2 votes
      #4.1 - Wed Aug 9, 2006 12:09 AM EDT
      Ilyanep

      Weird. I always thought that while Alexa never gave you accurate hard numbers, they would give you a good way to guage trends.

      So the Newsvine counters see no such spike?

      • 2 votes
      #4.2 - Wed Aug 9, 2006 12:23 AM EDT
      Corey Spring

      I do agree that Alexa is garbage - that dumb little toolbar doesn't even work on Firefox, does it?

      • 2 votes
      #4.3 - Wed Aug 9, 2006 12:40 AM EDT
      insert_name_here

      Nope, only Windows and Internet Explorer. Link However you can, write to Firefox asking them to include it, or write your own toolbar. Link Isn't that gracious of them?

      • 1 vote
      #4.4 - Wed Aug 9, 2006 11:42 AM EDT
      Alec Ananian

      This is pretty silly - write to Mozilla saying you want Alexa to come with Firefox? HAH! If they have to put that little image saying there is no spyware... there is spyware.

      • 2 votes
      #4.5 - Wed Aug 9, 2006 11:47 AM EDT
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