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renie408 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 04:37 PM
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Is it just me, or is it bitterly ironic that the Free Republic site...
has a link on the home page to some site called "Alexa" that ranks the traffic for different websites. Apparently, them's thats in charge of the Free Republic are very proud of their traffic ranking of 1590.

So I looked up the DU on the Alexa site and the traffic rating for THIS site is....


wait for it....





4335.

*snort*
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jasmeel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 04:38 PM
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1. Is that good or bad?
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MnFats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 04:38 PM
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2. pretend I'm really ignorant. What does that mean? n/t
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 04:40 PM
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3. I believe the lower the rating, the higher the number of visitors.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 04:42 PM
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4. Yup.
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LandOLincoln Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 05:16 PM
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13. Okay, now I'm really confused,
because that sounds like FR (at 1590) has a better ranking than DU (at 4335). What am I missing?
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 07:03 PM
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14. The number one most visited web site will get #1. Fr is 1590 from #1.
DU is 4335 from #1.
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darkism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 04:43 PM
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5. Because freepers are ignorant enough to have the Alexa spyware installed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Internet

Alexa collects information on Web usage through the Alexa Toolbar. This allows them to provide statistics on web site traffic, as well as related link information. The Alexa Toolbar has a bad reputation with anti-spyware programs, as it collects information on search habits.
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OneTwentyoNine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 07:58 PM
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16. Freepers absolutly want Alexa installed....
Most people on the web with a brain get that shit off their computer the second they install a spyware program.

Freepers on the other hand WANT in installed so they keep bumping numbers on their pathetic 1984 era forum. Even thought they have spyware installed which tracks most everywhere they go,they just don't care. Smart,real smart...
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ThoughtCriminal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 04:44 PM
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6. What it really means
Alexa toolbar users are more likey to be freepers.
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renie408 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 05:03 PM
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7. Well, SHIT! I am officially a moron...
I read the thing about how they computed their rankings and it said the ranking number was a combination of page views and...ok, something else I wasn't paying attention to...and I thought the higher ranking number was better.

Ok, so I am retarded.
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ThoughtCriminal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 05:04 PM
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8. At least you're contributing to our traffic and not theirs
So you're ahead of the game.
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renie408 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 05:10 PM
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10. I still feel stoopid
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renie408 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 05:05 PM
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9. So how many members are on the DU?
What made me think the traffic there would be slower than the traffic here was that the boards didn't seem to move as fast. I wasn't really reading anything (I started to, but it made me want to scream), just flipping around the site, but I can barely keep up with the threads here and things just didn't seem to be moving as much there.
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cosmik debris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 05:11 PM
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11. 75,784 user registrations and 17,591,799 posts since Jan. 2001
form the Masthead in the lobby
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OneTwentyoNine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 08:02 PM
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17. Thats how many signed up as a user.....
Doesn't mean there is anywhere near 75K DU'ers. I don't know if that number is dead wooded but all the freepers that sign and get booted still show up as a user.

Many other sites will put a 90 day restraint on users. Post at least once within 90 days or be dropped from the registration list. Thats really the only way you can verify the real users from the booted out loser's.
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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 05:13 PM
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12. Hell, most of their hits probably aren't even Freepers...
It's like folks getting in their cars and driving to see a fire, or a car wreck,
or tornado damage, etc...

Besides; this way, Chimpie gets to monitor their activity on the internets.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 07:44 PM
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15. I believe that Alexa only count pages that have ads on them
DU only has a couple of pages with ads. This is why the difference
(pls correct me if I'm wrong)
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