The weird of web "metrics"

Motto : <kakobrekla> Isn't Alexa rank like rand()*2/2?

On one hand, there's

So like... really ?! I'm THAT big in India ?

It got me thinking that who knows, that Shanti Dynamite chick is so into me she's reading Trilema compulsively and has an Alexa toolbar installed or something.

Then, I checked the Awstats for last month (which, while not necessarily more informative than any other random measure of nonsense, are nevertheless somewhat closer derived from actually verifiable data) :

That the US and its smaller, poorer cousin the UK are shown as 20%/10% in one source and 500k / 30k in another source I could perhaps see as a result of you know... errors. But picking up the 34th, moving it to first position and giving it a 20`000% stat boost in the process ? It's just a teensy bit rich, no ?

Sotto : See motto.

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