I am always looking for good investment data sources so I checked out a cool Google homepage module called Alexa Rank and noticed it pulled four years of Alexa data.
Turns out you can hack Alexa’s standard URLs and change the range parameter to get up to ~4.5 years of traffic data. This is particularly valuable for investors in web companies to see year over year growth in website traffic. I’ve been following Slashdot and Sourceforge traffic since I first purchased LNUX in late July.
To see Slashdot’s historical traffic, you change the range parameter of the URL of the two year chart from "range=2y" to "range=5y". See below:
I added Digg.com as a comparison. Interestingly, traffic has surged at Slashdot around the same times that Digg saw big increases in traffic. My theory is that press coverage of Digg and user-generated content has lifted the interest in the old school Slashdot. The Digg effect seems to have vaulted Slashdot to new heights but also underscores the impressive growth of Digg, surpassing Slashdot’s historical traffic highs in less than a year!
I own LNUX shares – and should have blogged about it before the run-up!
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I am always looking for good investment data sources so I checked out a cool Google homepage module called Alexa Rank and noticed it pulled four years of Alexa data.
Turns out you can hack Alexa’s standard URLs and change the range parameter to get up to ~4.5 years of traffic data. This is particularly valuable for investors in web companies to see year over year growth in website traffic. I’ve been following Slashdot and Sourceforge traffic since I first purchased LNUX in late July.
To see Slashdot’s historical traffic, you change the range parameter of the URL of the two year chart from "range=2y" to "range=5y". See below:
I added Digg.com as a comparison. Interestingly, traffic has surged at Slashdot around the same times that Digg saw big increases in traffic. My theory is that press coverage of Digg and user-generated content has lifted the interest in the old school Slashdot. The Digg effect seems to have vaulted Slashdot to new heights but also underscores the impressive growth of Digg, surpassing Slashdot’s historical traffic highs in less than a year!
I own LNUX shares – and should have blogged about it before the run-up!
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Written by Kevin Berk
February 21, 2006 at 10:12 PM
Posted in Industry Commentary