The first page of this site was written last November 11 and as one would expect, the first page was actually an “About” page.
The only activity we have had so far in this site was to play around with some WordPress themes using a plugin called “Theme Test Drive” and experimented with WordPress plugins like Snazzy Archives and Syndication for prospective clients.
We activated the Syndication plugin to grab RSS feeds from other sites which we later deactivated and also “unpublished” the articles from our site.
Today, we noted that this site has an Alexa rating of 12,126,403 (see screenshot). Yes, only after 2 months and a few pages most of which were RSS feeds. Shouldn’t we be happy that this site achieved that ranking in only a short a time and with hardly any activity?
We don’t think so. We have other experimental sites which have not come close to this ranking. And some of the sites have been online for a while.
So what’s wrong with Alexa?
We don’t know yet. We have read elsewhere that the Alexa system is flawed. But without having a complete picture of how Alexa does its ranking, we cannot comment on those claims.
But the situation we have at this site certainly requires a closer look. Is there really something in this site that is attracting traffic? We don’t know yet. We will install additional metrices in our pages to monitor this situation and see if the Alexa rating is giving us reliable measurement.
