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Alexa Blocks Statsaholic
Filed under: Asides | Tags: Alexa | March 22nd, 2007
Alexa appears to be blocking any image loads from the Statsaholic domain, which was recently renamed from Alexaholic. If you change or block your referrers, the images load just fine. Bad form on Alexa’s part, especially since Alexaholic put an infinitely more usable UI on Alexa’s data, which Alexa later updated their own chart widgets to copy. (15)
Pierro | March 22nd, 2007 @ 7:41 am | Reply
Well Statsaholic is lot better.
Dustin | March 22nd, 2007 @ 9:11 am | Reply
Nice catch. Alexa seems to be imploding lately. Their stats are being scrutinized and its not pretty. Check out my latest blog entry:
Please Stop Quoting Alexa Data
vivek | March 22nd, 2007 @ 9:19 am | Reply
Matt,
Hotlinking is bad, period. Why to eat someone else bandwidth?
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Matt | March 22nd, 2007 @ 12:02 pm | Reply
I seriously doubt the bandwidth used by the site is even a rounding error for Amazon/Alexa.
Andy Beard | March 22nd, 2007 @ 2:58 pm | Reply
Dustin that report is fairly biased, because you are not comparing apples with apples.
It is more like comparing apples with tiramisu
There is still massive inaccuracy within the same niche, but the same can be true of competitors like Compete or Quantcast, as my recent comparison showed.
Matt I agree this it very Myspace like, the widgets provide backlinks for Alexa all over the net, and are hardly a resource drain.
Maybe what they really need to do is introduce some caching, so they only pull the widget once per day to make Alexa happy.
I have been nudging a few Wordpress plugin developers to do a caching plugin for MyBlogLog and other services for over a month now, as it would probably be fairly straight forward to do with curl if they had the experience.
Alphonse | March 23rd, 2007 @ 1:32 am | Reply
The name has been changed back to Statsaholic.
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Arun VIjayan | March 23rd, 2007 @ 5:24 pm | Reply
Amazon blocks Statsaholic right now
http://www.webforth.com/2007/03/amazon-blocks-statsaholic
Please support them.
Matt | March 23rd, 2007 @ 5:48 pm | Reply
Of course we still can’t get WordPress.com in this list:
http://www.statsaholic.com/sethgodin
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Ron Hornbaker | March 25th, 2007 @ 6:56 pm | Reply
@Matt,
Sorry about that oversight. WordPress.com is on Seth’s list now, currently #16.
Thanks for the coverage.
Matt | March 25th, 2007 @ 9:09 pm | Reply
Oh thanks! Hope everything works out for you.
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