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Alexa’s Indelicate Handling of Statsaholic

Posted by Eunjin Gregorio under Uncategorized

First, the back story: I created Alexaholic.com (now Statsaholic.com - more on that later) over a long weekend in February 2006 for my own selfish purposes: I found the Alexa.com website to be slow and clunky, and I wanted faster access to their excellent traffic graphs.

I had seen their graph images hotlinked around the web by hundreds of sites, so I went about playing with the urls and discovered they would allow the direct comparison of up to five domains (vs. two domains exposed by Alexa’s interface) and offered a smoothing parameter (not exposed by Alexa’s interface). I wrapped the graph images in a fast, lightweight DHTML interface, eliminated page reloads between graph reloads, and that was the basis for Alexaholic — a place for an Alexa traffic junkie (me) to get his fix. [ Continue reading and link to original post ]

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