{"id":370,"date":"2008-04-20T09:59:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T16:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/20\/ratifiedorg-now-with-alexa-stats\/"},"modified":"2008-04-20T09:59:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T16:59:38","slug":"ratifiedorg-now-with-alexa-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/20\/ratifiedorg-now-with-alexa-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratified.org Now With Alexa Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/adding-alexa-rankings-to-ratifiedorg\/\">Two months ago<\/a>, I was playing around with the idea of adding Alexa data to Ratified.org&#8217;s ranking system.  That idea, however, was met with great opposition, so I abandoned it.  A few days ago though, Alexa announced their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexa.com\/site\/company\/announcement\">new ranking system<\/a>, which to me is more reliable and credible because it is based on more traffic sources rather than just the Alexa toolbar.  As a result, my own Alexa rankings are at their all time lows, but at least now I can say, with some caution (explanation below), that Alexa is making sense this time.<\/p>\n<p>Including Alexa&#8217;s data was a tricky one for me because it could not correctly rank blogs hosted on Blogger, WordPress, i.ph, Multiply and Blogsome.  Their &#8220;improvement&#8221; apparently did not involve solving their long standing problem in identifying blogs on subdomains.  I&#8217;m working on how to resolve it, so please bear with me.  The algo is a little rough on the edges too and that calls for a string of adjustments in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>The last update shows major movements in the rankings, as evidenced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratified.org\/rati\/winners\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratified.org\/rati\/losers\">here<\/a>.  You can also see the top 25 blogs based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratified.org\/alexa\/pop\">Alexa rankings<\/a>.  If you have questions, comments or suggestions please leave a comment below.  Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, I was playing around with the idea of adding Alexa data to Ratified.org&#8217;s ranking system. That idea, however, was met with great opposition, so I abandoned it. A few days ago though, Alexa announced their new ranking system, which to me is more reliable and credible because it is based on more&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/20\/ratifiedorg-now-with-alexa-stats\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ratified.org Now With Alexa Stats<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJQs-5Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}