Alexa Stats Clarification

I feel like participating in the quarrel between two blogs of vast differences in niche, target audience, aim, so on and so forth. I’m talking about Mo Twister’s blog and the group blog named Barrio Siete. I may not have fully understood the whole story, but I still don’t think something as little as this is worth fighting for through their respective blogs. It leaves a bad impression on most of each blog’s readers, unless the followers are also as uncivilized as the article respective writers look like in the posts they have written. I’m not saying that they are, but, the way I’ve seen both sides express themselves, is very primitive. I don’t like to see people bashing each other, especially through their blogs, just as much as I hate to see advertisement -but for that I’ve got my Ad Block plugin. Though, there’s no plugin that saves me from posts like this, and this.

I’ll not be taking sides, but it’s very clear to see who is at fault. Basing ones blog quality just on statistics is very petty. Blog Stats is just one thing, readership another, earnings yet another story and there are yet many other factors and criteria that I could name that may be important for one blog, and less important for the other.

Yet they’ve chosen to base it on the Alexa Ranking System. And the article shows very favorable demographs in favor of their own site, I mean, who wants to put stats out that paves you out of the spotlight? If you’d take a second look at the stats, you’ll see the real deal and the naked truth behind the strong words.

So, let’s have a second look, shall we?

Daily Page Views

I’m sorry to burst someones bubble, (I just really hate to be misinformed), but it looks like the least popular blog is clearly seen with the daily page views statistics alone. Does your Pageviews per User helped you in garnering the MOST pageviews? I don’t think so.

Meaning, you may have more pageviews per user (well it’s a Group Blog, people!), it doesn’t means that you’ve got the most pageviews all in all.

Again something that wasn’t posted on the bashing blog. Their readers must be very misinformed, but after all, the headline says it that they are very biased. And the stats also show that for the second time in the row they don’t really favor the blog in question.

(good to see us climbing up the ladder by the way)

The Biggest Blow is Yet to Come

Now, where’s the blog again who called the runner up infamous?

I hope that bloggers, not only from Barrio Siete will take something from this article. Stats are just mere stats. And stats alone. But it doesn’t mean that you can skip some of them. If you analyze something, or say, compare something, please include the whole package. Okay, I leave it to them that they are biased, still, I’d expected more from them than just a trickery post.

I don’t mind stats, and I’m sure Mo doesn’t mind them too. But he’s way on top at a rank within the 100k zone.

Blogging isn’t about stats, nor is it about money or anything you benefit from. I’m seeing blogging from a perspective of just having fun. I used to be a stat-geek, but not anymore, I have learned my lessons from it that it can be pretty boring to base your position in the blogger world on stats alone.

Every blog has an advantage and disadvantage over another. And we cannot compare them by looking at numbers, especially when they are of vast difference. I wonder how come they call themselves bloggers when they didn’t realize this. And not to forget, when they don’t know how to use Alexa the right way.

ps: (by Princess) Mo’s blog got more comments. That, kung titingnan mong maigi ang mga nag-comment dun. Various people. On the other hand we have a blog in which the author is defending him/herself by almost every comment posted by others.