: Alexa ranks being improved by the Widget is a myth. It's not a pixel! Alexa ranks are based on: Reports from a Toolbar (Not popular outside of the US) Reports from partnered browser extensions

@Kimberly868

Alexa ranks being improved by the Widget is a myth. It's not a pixel!

Alexa ranks are based on:


Reports from a Toolbar (Not popular outside of the US)
Reports from partnered browser extensions (pays for some free extensions data)
Paid for tracking javascript ( a month)
A 3 month average of your history (Updated Weekly)


You won't show up if you have insignificant traffic coming from users browsers. iFrames can mess with tracking as well - because of the way it's reported. There's also a rumour that they use their own datacenter traffic to make estimates as well - and AWS being as large as it is, that's a believable alternative.

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