Alexa traffic details is the best way a website owner gets to see the traffic details of his site his competitor’s. In Alexa with the help of a widget we can see a graphical representation of the traffic details, alexa rank and also the page views in comparison to a specified interval of time. We also have the freedom to compare it with another site. Very recently this tool got some major upgradations.
What we had in the past:
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What we now have (red dots indicate changes):
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The three tabs Reach, Rank and Pageviews remain unaltered. For the first time we see the introduction of Ajax in this section. So we not have to wait for the long delays of pageloads. This is pretty smart and its pretty fast too.
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The Date Range is increased to a great extent. In the past we used to have the ranges as 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 2 year, maximum. But now we have some more ranges. It starts from a week till the maximum range. The complete range is 7 days, 1 month, 3 month, 6 month, 1 year, 3 year, 5 year and the maximum range. This is going to help the webmasters a lot. They need not have to wait for three months to get the updated graph. They can now analyze the performance metrics over a variety of date range.
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Visitors can now ’smoothen’ the graph in four steps. Once you drag the level indicator to the right a bit you smoothen the graph by one level. This I guess is done to makes it easy for everyone to read the graph and is of great help to me atleast. I used to get puzzled at times while viewing the graph of some big sites. This is a new feature that is introduced.
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Visitors can now compare five websites at a time and make a comparative analysis. This makes life easy for many traffic analysts. In the past only two sites can be comapred at a time.
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What more the permalink also takes its place just above the widget!
If you see any other changes please drop a line to others know as well.
I noticed Alexa was first ajaxified in the midst of Jan. But yup it was gone and now its again here!