interesting site: alexa.com

 

like say here you can see scienceforums.net is ranked 96,329 and ~.0011% people who went on the internet yesterday visited this site, compared to 33.72% for google.com,

 

yahoo.com was 1st and google was 2nd until ~2009 when it switched.

 

1. google.com
   
2. yahoo.com
   
3. youtube.com
   
4. facebook.com
   
5. live.com
   
6. msn.com
   
7. blogger.com
   
8. wikipedia.org
   
9. baidu.com
   
10. yahoo.co.jp
    
11. myspace.com
    
12. google.co.in
    
13. google.de
    
14. qq.com
    
15. twitter.com
    
16. microsoft.com
    
17. rapidshare.com
    
18. sina.com.cn
    
19. bing.com
    
20. google.fr

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Alexa rankings are really only useful if you're concerned about market share for a particular product. The overall ranking is not really an issue for anyone.

Also, a comparison to google isn't really suitable in our case.

 

A comparison should be for two similar sites; you can compare most sites to google and they'll seem tiny. However, if, in comparison to other scientific forums we are larger, then that turns the entire analysis over.

ok ok i'm sorry i realized this is stupid as soon as i posted it... compared to science madness:

 

its a lot better than science madness:

Rank:

 SF: 96,329

 SM: 315,078

Visits:

 SF: 0.0011%

 SM: 0.00025%

 

although i don't know how accurate it is, depending on the way they're calculated it must have some bias

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Also take into account that the ranking is out of all the sites alexa "follows", which is a whole lot of 'em. Being number 96,329 out of 100,000 is very low ranking, but being 96,329 out of hundreds of thousands or a few millions is quite a lot better.