Can you really believe Alexa Rankings?


Posted by ManojRanaweera on Monday 23rd of June 2008 | 0 Comment(s)

I had a great chat with Shaun Fensom of Manchester Digital this morning discussing ways of how Northern StartUp 2.0 could collaborate with Manchester Digital, a well funded organisation by its membership and public sector. Given that Manchester Digital is well established and the organiser of Big Chip Ten awards, you would think the website would have a higher Alexa ranking than Northern StartUp 2.0. But it seems that is not the case. So here are the rankings today (3 months averages):

- Northern StartUp 2.0 - 555,468 (up by 32,898). UK ranked 23,766
- Manchester Digital - 1,327,652 (down by 83,032), UK ranked 68,986
- Mashup Event - 594,559 (down by 202,719), UK ranked 36,296
- GeekUp - 606,027 (down by 84,926), UK ranked 45,394

Can this be true? I bet Google Analytics show a complete different picture. Unfortunately, this functionality is yet to be installed here.