Alexa Caught Forging Alternative Media Statistics

[Stewox]

http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/your-favorite-news-sites-shafted-by-amazon/

The Drudge Report’s recent traffic ranking, according to Alexa.com.

According to data for July through September, almost every major website – from WND to the Drudge Report and Breitbart – saw its rankings drop on Alexa.com while pro-government sites mostly went up.

Familiar names in alternative media like the Drudge Report, Breitbart, Infowars, the Blaze, Newsmax, WND, FoxNews.com, and the Daily Caller all saw their rankings plummet while sites such as NPR.org, the Daily Kos, Democracy Now!, Media Matters and ThinkProgress all rose in the rankings.
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Media Matters, a website with funding from George Soros, shows upward traffic, according to Alexa.com.

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Alexa rankings for DailyCaller.com

The staff at Austin, Texas-based Infowars was equally perplexed by the numbers.

“As a certified member of Alexa, we find these trends troubling because in their very own subscription data on their site, we have had significant growth for the period indicated,” said Infowars reporters in an emailed statement.

Infowars is also seeing increases in another indicator, its largest YouTube channel.

“Our analytics indicate 305,000 views on 8-1-14 trending upward to 456,000 views on 10/11/14. This is views per day and represents a 50 percent rise in views during that period,” the staff said via email.

Alexa rankings for PlannedParenthood.org



OP Note: Just incase somebody is wondering why "even" they popped up around here.

PlannedParenthood is a known high-profile communist-themed pro-abortion (transl: human sacrifice ritual) operation funded by major globalist donors the same ones funding the "rising" in popularity above mentioned pro-war pro-gmo pro-scam-vaccine pro-open-border pro-police-state pro-death-panels pro-trafficking-children-raping-them-slitting-their-throats-drinking-their-blood-and-getting-away-with-it anti-liberty media operations.
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[dmcowen674]

No surprise

Bezos feels like he owns the world and that includes the Internets.

 

[Paratus]

All the y axis are inverted. You gotta be shitting me.

ROTFLMAO.

 

[yllus]

Nobody gives a crap what Alexa says are the rankings. Anyone seriously looking at competitive analysis on the Web uses ComScore.

 

[brycejones]

Posting in stews latest authorized propaganda thread.

Glad Putin came up with something new for you to post.

 

[halik]

Huh? People that have an incentive to fake their own traffic are complaining an independent third party is showing numbers they don't like?

 

[rommelrommel]

Hopeful take: People are getting smarter.

Realistic take: private company rightfully doing as it pleases.

 

[gevorg]

Who still installs Alexa toolbar on their IE6?

 

[Matthiasa]

All the y axis are inverted. You gotta be shitting me.

ROTFLMAO.

In this case a lower number is considered better... They are overall rankings where its possible to both gain membership and drop in rank.
Also, who still uses alexa...

 

[dmcowen674]

Of course there is the usual Corporate Thug supporters in here already.

It's a private Company blah blah blah

Nevermind they affect the public Internets with their bullshit.

 

[IronWing]

Stew, the drop in infowars traffic is 100% your own fault. You haven't been posting here much lately, oh summer soldier and sunshine patriot.

 

[Paratus]

In this case a lower number is considered better... They are overall rankings where its possible to both gain membership and drop in rank.
Also, who still uses alexa...

Damit, I was wondering if that was the case.

I figured it was just poorly shopped propaganda from stew.

 

[thraashman]

Stew, the drop in infowars traffic is 100% your own fault. You haven't been posting here much lately, oh summer soldier and sunshine patriot.

Oh you bastard. That is not funny. Don't encourage him!

 

[Stewox]

UPDATE:

http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/caught-red-handed-news-site-deception-uncovered/

Jeff Rense, founder of Rense.com, another alternative news site, also took a slap at Alexa for delivering what he believes is inaccurate information to potential advertisers.


“Thanks for the superb expose. Alexa has been suppressing me for many years,” said Rense in an email to WND. “I’ve caught them a couple times with screen snaps.”

(More Details: Rense's Article From 2008)

Rense.com’s most recent Alexa ranking shows a strong drop-off.
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But that’s exactly what happened to NaturalNews.com, a site operated by Mike Adams, a scientist also known as the “health ranger.”

“Natural News can confirm that in the time period depicted as a sharp drop in traffic by Alexa.com, our unique visitor numbers have actually risen sharply, in part due to the very high level of interest in the uncontrolled Ebola outbreak,” Adams told WND. “To see a rise in traffic depicted as a visual drop on Alexa’s chart is troubling, especially given that this drop primarily appears to be taking place across sites known to be truth-telling news sources like Natural News.”

NaturalNews.com is among the top 750 websites in the U.S. and among the very top alternative sites focusing on health issues,
yet Alexa lowered its ranking during a period when readers were intensely interested in the site’s Ebola coverage.
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[dawp]

world nut daily, just another conspiracy site.

Hey stew, maybe ya aught to check out www.zetatalk.com, seems it'll be right up your alley.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Hopeful take: People are getting smarter.

Realistic take: private company rightfully doing as it pleases.

My guess is with all the EBOLA!!! and ISIS!!! the right-wing nutters are content with what's being shown in the MSM and don't have to run off to the make-believe of right-wing media.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Posting in stews latest authorized propaganda thread.

Glad Putin came up with something new for you to post.

This! Stew you've previously claimed not to be an American and you stated you lived somewhere besides America. Why are you so obsessed with American politics?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

All the y axis are inverted. You gotta be shitting me.

ROTFLMAO.

Good call

 

[surfsatwerk]

human sacrifice ritual

Never change

 

[inachu]

WND banned me from making comments because even though I love their news articles it seems they are also hell bent on false new events themselves and I commented(OUTED) them on that with a URL to back up my claims and then it was then they banned me.

So I will just create a new account. It was my postings which made a lot of people question the support of evangelicals of Israel when I commented on the fact that a small portion of evangelicals were END TIME CULTS and then ISrael made a public statement that no end time evangelical cult is supporting israel.

I spat out my food when I knew that came from me and I knew at that point they know it is 100% true!

 

[senseamp]

Alexa is private sector.
Free market will take care of it.

 

[Newell Steamer]

Something moves in favor of conservatism - it's the market,.. it's what the people want.

Something moves in favor of liberalism - it's a conspiracy!!

 

[Stewox]

Update:
http://www.infowars.com/alexa-caught-targeting-conservative-websites/

Infowars has revealed a screenshot of their own paid-subscription dataset of the month in question, which is in conflict with what Alexa shows in free(guest) datasets ...

... as well as a screencap from Google Analytics below.

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Furthermore, Tucker Carlson from DailyCaller.com discloses his own statistics.

“We had 13,557,850 unique visitors in September,” Carlson disclosed to WND. “By comparison, we had 12,784,656 uniques in August, so Alexa would be wrong if they’re reading the data correctly.”

Video: Related Coverage From AJShow - 15 Oct 2014 edition.

This! Stew you've previously claimed not to be an American and you stated you lived somewhere besides America. Why are you so obsessed with American politics?

That's where the battlefield is, currently.

 

[brycejones]

More nuttery from a nut job shill of an authoritarian government who whines about "freedom" ironically enough.

 

[Screech]

alexa provides a 'ranking', so if website one has visitor #s increase from 1000 to 2000 but website two has visitor #s increase from 5000 to 6500 the ranking of website 1 can still increase (where 1 is the most popular, so an increase in rank is a decrease in popularity, hence the inverted y axis) despite the higher number of hits

makes sense if everyone is looking at mainstream news for ebola, isis, etc, more than normal, even though the "alternate" sites are also getting a lot of hits