Jalaj P. Jha

Does traffic details graph for your site show up on alexa? The one that alexa documents that it is recorded for only those sites who are in the top 100000? And that continues to show up even if at later date you drop out of top 100000 list!

Though Alexa documents that traffic is recorded only for toppers, the traffic is indeed recorded for all but not shown for those sites having insignificant or less traffic. There are various reasons for that, the root cause of all of which is that Alexa is able to record traffic only for those users (not sites) who have Alexa Toolbar installed on their system.
- Now a site may have 100 unique visitors each day but none may have Alexa toolbar on their browsers… thus the visitors recorded would be zero. If Alexa shows up such a site as one with no traffic that would be a false statement and would affect Alexa’s credibility. Similarly a site may have 10 unique visitors each day all with Alexa toolbar installed will wrongly find place above sites who indeed have better readership.
- Showing up graphs of only the toppers also creates a sense of competition amongst webmasters. Each one strive to get into top 100000 and to ensure that all traffics to his site is recorded, he recommends users to use the Alexa Toolbar that expands the userbase and thus strengthens Alexa’s credibility.

So points to summarize
1) Alexa do record traffic for all site irrespective of whether they are toppers are not
2) It shows up graph for only the toppers, one who is in top 100000 or one who as at least reached this point once.

And now the one that we are here for
3) There is a trick with which you can see graph for your site even if it has never crossed the threshold of 100000… How read below! Oh first of all see how my site’s graph looks like (15 days old figure, the post has been in draft for long)…

A disclosure here the image has been modified a bit and it’s not the one that Alexa shows. But the graph is untouched and if Alexa had showed it for site ranking low this would have been the one!

Now to the trick!

This is how graph for my blog looks like, when you go to the traffic page

Noticed the extra four text boxes? they are there for comparing traffic from upto five different sites. Use the second textbox and fill in a site name which has traffic rank in proximity of 100000 (though any site from toppers may do) and press enter to refresh the graph.

And the refreshed graph will also show the traffic trends for your site. How small the trend may look like but at least you will get to know about your standing… Now with the latest graph I can estimate that soon my blog will see the top 100000.