: How is it possible to have worse global Alexa rank and better country Alexa rank? Alexa.com provides following information for two sites at the same time with the same country: Site A: tarafdari.com

@Dunderdale272

That's simply a bug in Alexa ranking which may have happened in short period of time. While both site A and site B have same percentage of visitors from a specific country, the site with better Global Rank would have also better Local Rank.

Data we have: Site A (GlobalRank: 8523) has more visitors than site B (GlobalRank: 15043).

Let's suppose Site A has 60.000 visitors per day. In this case site B must have less visitors because of worse Global Rank. My hypothesis is that site B has 40.000 visitors per day.

Site A Visitors: 83.2% of site A visitors (60.000) are from Iran, so hypothetically it has 49.920 visitors from Iran.

Site B Visitors: 83.2% of site B visitors (40.000 users) are from Iran, so hypothetically it has 33.280 visitors from Iran.

Conclusion: Site A must have better Local Rank than Site B. After posting a ticket for Alexa, the ranking was corrected.

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@Radia820

The answer is rather simple... there's less competition to compete with in your country so naturally you're not competing against websites that have more traffic than yours.

The global rank takes into consideration all the websites and all traffic in the world, then it works out a global rank, the country rank means only the websites in your country, and traffic from that country.

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