Rogers Cadenhead does some snooping in Alexa and discovers (along with graphical comparisons of blog traffic) some interesting things about some of our favorite blog hosters:
- Five weblogs receive one-third of all visits to EditThisPage.Com: Familie Berg (13 percent), Hack the Planet (8 percent), Phil Wolff’s Dijest (5 percent), Cyberdaily (4 percent), and Flangy News (4 percent).
- Top five on ManilaSites.Com: Caversham Booksellers (17 percent), J.D. Lasica (14 percent), CHAINguardian (8 percent), B.A.’s Weblog (4 percent), and Heroes and Villains (4 percent).
Adam Vandenberg (aka Flangy) thinks his prominence is less due to merit than the fact that a lot of people are moving off EditThisPage. Au contraire. (Although there are certainly people moving off EditThisPage.)
And Dave wonders why his Slashdotting looks like 5000 reads, while Joel Spolsky’s looks like 400,000. Well, I can’t explain two orders of magnitude, Dave, but one order might just be a difference in methodology. The stats in Manila and Radio (and SiteMeter) present summaries of visits and page views, and don’t count things like graphics loads as hits (though Manila, at least, counts RSS downloads). I don’t know about Joel’s software, but if he’s looking at more raw web traffic data, he’ll see a hit for every image on his page in addition to the page view itself.