: Does the Alexa ranking apply to the sub-domain or the primary domain? If a user visits demo.domain.com, does that count as having visited the site domain.com? Does the Alexa ranking apply to

@Angela700

No, a sub domain is a sub domain and treated as it's own entity. WWW is essentially a sub domain which is what many websites reside under by default unless they choose to display URL's without
Alexa however, will consolidate all sub domains under the primary domain and as such, will offer an Alexa traffic rank the same across any pages under that domain, including any sub domains.

You may find this useful, taken from Alexa's help pages:-


Traffic is computed for sites, which are typically defined at the
domain level. For example, the Web hosts msn.com, carpoint.msn.com
and slate.msn.com are all treated as part of the same site, because
they all reside on the same domain, msn.com. An exception is blogs or
personal home pages, which are treated separately if they can be
automatically identified as such from the URLs in question. Also,
sites which are found to be serving the same content (mirrors) are
generally counted together as the same site.


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