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"Keep in mind that the list excludes adult sites, ad networks, domains that don't have publicly visible content or don't load properly, and certain Google sites
by alanh 16y ago
"Keep in mind that the list excludes adult sites, ad networks, domains that don't have publicly visible content or don't load properly, and certain Google sites."
This list may be less interesting / useful than you might think. It is tailored toward (non-adult) advertisers, and will be most relevant to them.
- citricsquid 16y agoIt's also wildly inaccurate, about 2 months ago Joel (I think? I always forget his name...) said that Stackoverflow does ~>60,000,000 page views per month, this claims 40,000,000 for Stackoverflow. I guess nobody should expect it to be accurate anyway, but this is an example of it. It also doesn't include a site I know of that doesn't a lot more than Stackoverflow...
- nl 16y agoIf you know much about web stats (and comparing them from different providers) you'd realize that a 30% discrepancy is actually pretty accurate (sad but true!). There are lots of reasons for this, not least the definition of a "Page View". Most publishers count a page view as anytime a page is served (because they are concerned about keeping the site alive, and load on it), whereas advertisers count it as everytime a page is seen by a human. Notably, this means advertisers exclude search engine bots from their page view counts, while publishers count them. (Although obviously this depends on the publisher and the context they are talking)
- mkramlich 16y agoSo in other words... it may not actually be a list of the most visited sites. Awesome! Garbage data. It's like seeing a list of the so-called top selling books, and then learning they exclude the Bible, romance novels, westerns, etc. Too funny.