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Traffic wise, the last few days have been pretty high - but maybe the amount of queue sifting has been a bit lower with more "drive by" visits.

One misses so much if they've had a busy week. It would be fun if someone would sift talk a "recap" column to give us the highlights and best threads of the week.

yeah the last week has been our busiest week since launch... Guess people are just staying out of the queue.

By the way if anyone is interested in Videosift.com traffic numbers they are available via Alexa. However these results are highly debatable due to the nature of data collection that Alexa does, so do take them with a grain of salt.

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=videosift.com

Nice. I wonder if VS' internal graphs based on its logs are similiar.

Nice link Farhad. Seems the channels aren't getting much use.

Ant,

No, the internal logs are probably far more accurate then Alexa.

Since Alexa collects data based on people using it's toolbar for IE/Mozilla. Nothing is know about the true sample and how the data that is correlated. Thus if you look at the data for VS it shows our highest traffic point was about 6 months ago, when in reality Dag/James just said we saw the largest traffic on the sift this past week.

The most reliable data would be Google Analytics, since it's embedded in the site. This is what Dag looks at, check out it's feature explanation here - http://www.google.com/analytics/media/report_tour/feature_tour.html

Alexa is crap, we often see ourselves ranked really poorly on days with very high traffic. The worst part is that not only must you run ie you have to then install a browser plugin. Half of our traffic is firefox, with more trending towards that on a daily basis. As for their rankings on channels i take that with a grain of salt. I find it hard to believe that less than 1% of visitors visit talk, or the queue. Also our sub channels have a page rank of 5, so i have to assume that google thinks they are important. All in all it would be nice if google would use some statistical modeling mixed with their toolbar, and analytics information to develop more reliable statistics than alexa. It seems that all site admins despise it, but it is still THE metric for valuing a websites traffic.

What happens to sites using lots of ajax? They will clearly show larger discrepancies in page views, because content updates is not technically a page view. In short Alexa is broken... it's a shame that we are in some ways beholden to its monopoly.

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Actually there is an Alexa toolbar for Firefox, but I don't think many people use it. It's independent from Alexa, but works the same. I like to use it just to get a rough idea on how other sites are doing. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/321/

You can see a bar graph of our total unique visitors / page views per month since launch here.

http://www.itineratesurfer.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/traffic.jpg

dag, i have that installed, but looking at luckys alexa tracker it doesn't appear to actually register a visit, as my IP never shows up.

All I can say is, "Go Freedom Sift, Go, Sift us to freedom!"

Oh, and Alexa sucks.

Performance is so terrible now

Everything feels like it's the oil rig in maneuverability.

Yep, it is slow now. I think everyone is on VS now!!