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Traffic Rank is based on the amount of traffic recorded from users that have the Alexa toolbar installed over a period of three months. A site's ranking is based on a combined measure of Unique Visitors and Pageviews. Unique Visitors are determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site
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to a page to determine a rough estimate of how important the website is. The underlying assumption is that more important websites are likely to receive more links from other websites. However, Google claims there will be no more PageRank updates, rendering this metric as outdated. As of 15 April
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uses to determine a page's relevance or importance. Important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results. Google PageRank (PR) is a measure from 0 - 10. Google PageRank is based on
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on a given day. Pageviews are the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site. Alexa's Traffic Ranks are for domains only and do not give separate rankings for subpages within a domain or
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features a toolbar that provides users with the ability to view page-hit popularity and various web server metrics along with aggregated user provided website feedback.
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potential. Since these metrics can be manipulated, they can never be completely reliable for accurate and truthful results.
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creating such metrics all use their own crawled data to derive at a numeric conclusion on a website's
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announced that the Alexa project was going to be discontinued on May 1, 2022.
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Collection, analysis, and reporting of web data to optimize search engines
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2016, Google has officially removed the PR score from their Toolbar.
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Google: When Will Be The Next PageRank Update? Probably Never
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