In February, i spent few hours researching the popularity of some computer language websites.
(The message can be found here: http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/lang_sites.html http://community.livejournal.com/lisp/42778.html http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/msg/59c87899c2668f4c ) In that post, one question i puzzeled over is why PaulGraham.com's traffic is surprisingly high, since the site doesn't seems to host forums, computer lang documentation, or wiki type of thing, yet it is ranked higher than perl.com, which actually host online forum, faq, documentation, news etc. I wrote: ------------ paulgraham.com 48153 (lisp bigwig, but huh?) Perl.com 49104 xahlee.org 80060 ← Me! ------------- Compared to xahlee.org, it's a ranking difference about 32 thousand! Today, while checking the web ranking site alexa.com, they seems to have updated their ranking algorithm to be more fair, as opposed basing it solely on a browser toolbar that users install. So i went over to my essay and checked the ranking again of sites i reported. I have spent only about 20 min to cursorily go thru the sites i reported before. It appears that, in general, the order of sites that i listed ROUGHLY remains unperturbed, but the specific ranking ordinal has changed rather significantly. However, there's a big surprise. My website is now actually ranked higher than PaulGraham.com ! LOL. Paul Graham? Bah humbug. Painters == Hackers? Fuck ya ass. Arc? Eat shit and die. PS: not having no confidence of myself, but i note that xahlee.org is now marginally ranked higher than perl.com and perl.org, both of which host forum/blog/wiki, news, docs, etc., while my website don't do any of these and is all static html pages. For those unflagging, alternative web ranking site is http://ww.quantcast.com/ . I'll be doing some research sometimes soon on this. Xah [EMAIL PROTECTED] ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
