More statistics about the UCD website can be found here. Ucd.ie has a traffic rank of: 29,142. The alexa scale goes from 1 to 1,000,000, where 1 is the biggest website in the world (yahoo.com) and 1,000,000 is very very small. Google.ie is currently at 726 - the most popular website in Ireland. I thought that Google would also have been the most popular website in the world.
"Rank" is a measure derived by combining page views and numbers of users, called "reach". An interesting source of data provided by Alexa.com is the traffic history of websites - which is essentially a time series of revealed preferences. The traffic history of any site can be charted just like one would chart series in a data provider such as Datastream. It is possible to chart the measures of rank, views and reach for multiple websites, over various temporal intervals.
It is also possible to examine the statistic of "other sites that link to the site (in question)", which might go someway to explaining traffic history if one could compile a large amount of this data.
The traffic history of the UCD website can be viewed here; below is shown traffic history for the site, measured by "reach" (number of users) over the last three years. There seems to be a dip in volume in late December/early January each year, when the university sector is on holidays. If one examines page views, there is a very substantial spike in the first half of 2005 - I wonder if this was a time when the UCD website was re-developed?
The Alexa Blog can be accessed here: http://awis.blogspot.com/
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And this is the link to the Geary Institute website stats:
http://geary.ucd.ie/webalizer/
yeah apparently whoever keeps looking at my homepage keeps looking at Britney Spears'.weird huh?
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