TBN is in 20,150th place

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JayC

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I thought this was rather interesting. It is information about how well TBN is doing on the net according to traffic. I guess with all the billions of sites on the net, being in 20,150th place isn't all that bad! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Here is some more info:

Traffic Rank for tractorbynet.com: 20,150 ((supposed to be a down arrow here) 7,288)

Speed: Average (58% of sites are faster), Avg Load Time: 1.9 Seconds (what's this?)

Other sites that link to this site: 100

Popups: Many (12% of sessions have popups)

Online Since: 18-Feb-1999

Here is a link:

Site stats for TBN
 
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I am sure our esteemed moderators can confirm this. Alexa numbers are somewhat misleading in that they come from Alexa toolbar stats only. This comes from their FAQ:

<font color="blue"> What is Traffic Rank?
The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for all sites on the Web on a daily basis. The main Alexa traffic rank is based on the geometric mean of these two quantities averaged over time (so that the rank of a site reflects both the number of users who visit that site as well as the number of pages on the site viewed by those users). The three-month change is determined by comparing the site's current rank with its rank from three months ago. For example, on July 1, the three-month change would show the difference between the rank based on traffic during the first quarter of the year and the rank based on traffic during the second quarter.

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Here is more from Alexa. You be the judge of the accuracy of their numbers.

<font color="blue"> Some Important Disclaimers
The traffic data are based on the set of Alexa users, which may not be a representative sample of the global Internet population. Known biases include (but are likely not limited to) the following:

Our users are disproportionately likely to visit alexa.com, amazon.com and archive.org, and traffic to these sites may be substantially overcounted.

The Alexa Toolbar works only with the Internet Explorer browser. Sites frequented mainly by users of other browsers will be undercounted. For example, the AOL/Netscape browser is not supported, which means that Alexa collects little data from AOL users, and our traffic to aol.com is likely lower than it would be for a more representative sample.

The Alexa Toolbar works only on Windows operating systems. Although a large majority of the Internet population currently use Windows, traffic to any sites which are disproportionately visited by users of other operating systems will be undercounted.

The rate of adoption of Alexa software in different parts of the world may vary widely due to advertising locality, language, and other geographic and cultural factors. For example, to some extent the prominence of Korean sites among our top-ranked sites reflects known high rates of general Internet usage in South Korea, but there may also be a dispropotionate number of Korean Alexa users.

In some cases traffic data may also be adversely affected by our "site" definitions. With tens of millions of hosts on the Internet, our automated procedures for determining which hosts are serving the "same" content may be incorrect and/or out-of-date. Similarly, the determinations of domains and home pages may not always be accurate. When these determinations change (as they do periodically), there may be sudden artificial changes in the Alexa traffic rankings for some sites as a consequence.

The Alexa Toolbar turns itself off on secure pages (https:). Sites with more secure page views will be under-represented in the Alexa traffic data.

In addition to the biases above, the Alexa user base is only a sample of the Internet population, and sites with relatively low traffic will not be accurately ranked by Alexa due to the statistical limitations of the sample. Alexa's data come from a large sample of several million Alexa Toolbar users; however, this is not large enough to accurately determine the rankings of sites with fewer than roughly 1,000 total monthly visitors. Generally, Traffic Rankings of 100,000+ should be regarded as not reliable because the amount of data we receive is not statistically significant. Conversely, the more traffic a site receives (the closer it gets to the number 1 position), the more reliable its Traffic Ranking becomes.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Popups: Many )</font>

Hmmm ... I never get any popups on this site.
 
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To all Alexa Toolbar users:

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!!!

How do you think they get these stats?

Think about it.
 
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You only get a popup if you're not signed in as a member.

Anyone who goes to the discussion page without being signed in gets a popup trying to get you to register as a member.

I assume it says "popups: Many" beacuse the majority of hits on the site are from unregistered users. For example, there are currently 61 registered users and 110 anonymous users currently online.
 
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Thanks for that link! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif I was just thinking about it but couldn't remember the name. I was just about to post if anyone knew anything about it! Weird. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
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I used to get a pop-up a few times until I found a folder called OpenSite with an executable file attached. Once I got rid of that folder and all its contenets, they stopped. It always gave me a pop-up for art.com. Only happened while I was on this site, even though it was not connected at all to TBN.
 
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The Alexa toolbar is a spyware/trojan that monitors your internet traffic so they can send focused popup messages. It is recognized as spyware and is removed by both SpyBot Search & Destroy and Lavasoft Ad-Aware. I'd bet money you don't get popups since you probably wouldn't install programs such as Alexa.
 

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