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Thanks for that -- seems like you're a pretty good counterexample to my hypothesis. Totally agree that sending these emails to site #350,000 on the Tranco list

Thanks for that -- seems like you're a pretty good counterexample to my hypothesis. Totally agree that sending these emails to site #350,000 on the Tranco list isn't justifiable. > I’m not sure how they claim to be analyzing my traffic in the first place They wouldn't need to analyze your traffic to find out if you were using tracking technologies, they would just need to visit your site and examine what they were served. Companies like BuiltWith and Wappalyzer offer this kind of technology survey as a service.

kstrauser 5y ago
I mean, I'm not sure how Tranco would get those traffic numbers, since I'm not sharing traffic data with anyone. All of my analytics are within my own system.
- gnfargbl 5y ago
  Tranco is a merge of the Alexa, Cisco Umbrella and Majestic lists. Alexa data is gathered from a browser extension [1], Cisco Umbrella is passive DNS [2]. Not totally sure about Majestic but it looks like it might be crawling of some kind, then counting links. [1] https://kinsta.com/blog/alexa-rank/#how-is-alexa-rank-calculated https://kinsta.com/blog/alexa-rank/#how-is-alexa-rank-calcul... [2] https://umbrella-static.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/index.html https://umbrella-static.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/index.htm...