World Traffic Rankings of Space News Sites

[powerstats]

Hi.<br /><br />Every three months my company works off Alexa/Amazon's site rankings to track daily traffic standings of specific area sites. While it's not absolutely accurate, it's one of the best ways we have of ranking how sites are doing.<br /><br />1st NASA.gov (No Change)<br />2nd Space.com (No Change)<br />3rd NASASpaceflight.com (New Entry)<br />4th Spaceref.com (Up One)<br />5th Spaceflightnow.com (Down One)<br /><br />Other sites are not ranking in the top 100,000 range.<br /><br />Thank you.<br /><br />I do not want to use this post as spam, so if you are interested in our ranking lists, please PM me.

 

[shuttle_rtf]

Cool. Explains why my server costs are going up <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" />

 

[flynn]

Cool, thanks for posting. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#800080">"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring" - <strong>Chuck Palahniuk</strong>.</font> </div>

 

[Leovinus]

I always disliked logarithmic scales. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[powerstats]

Without sites showing opening up server logs, or every single browser having spyware installed, it's the only thing we can really go on really. It does show patterns well and a good indication on sites of specific fields.

 

[shoogerbrugge]

spacedaily, does it receive that few traffic? I expected it to do better..........<br /><br />

 

[spayss]

I like Spacedaily also.<br /><br /> 'Space news' means what? Manned space flight and issues of deep space cosmology are as different as night and day as subject matters. <br /><br /> Space.com is my first choice for what's happening in space flight. It's not, however, my first choice in astronomy, cosmology, etc.<br /> <br /> Frequency of visits can be a positive. Unfortunately, popularity and quality are not synonomous (think of most watched television shows). Space.com gets an A-1 for keeping us up to date on what's happening at NASA, etc. It does a 'good job' in astronomy, etc, but perhaps not enough meat on the bones for a real keener. Spacedaily is more frank as to trends, reality checks, etc. Let's put it this way: if I wanted to read about the details of a Shuttle mission I'd visit Space.com...whereas if I was more concerned about the viability of the mission actually happening I'd find more credibility with Spacedaily. <br /><br /> Like most things on the Net, the best strategy is to diversify sources of info.

 

[SpaceKiwi]

Congratulations SRTF! That's fairly impressive for a site you started as a 'hobby' project. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em><font size="2" color="#ff0000">Who is this superhero?  Henry, the mild-mannered janitor ... could be!</font></em></p><p><em><font size="2">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></em></p><p><font size="5">Bring Back The Black!</font></p> </div>