Alexa Internet

Alexa Internet
Type	website
Status	No consensus
Deprecated	no
Blacklisted	no
Recency	2022
Domain alexa.com
	In source code; External links in articles; Spamcheck tool
RfC
Link	Rfc
Date	2022

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This source in a nutshell: There is

no consensus on the reliability of Alexa Internet. See § Summary.

Alexa Internet is a source that has been repeatedly discussed at the Reliable sources noticeboard. This page collects and links information about previous discussions and current consensus, and summarizes it here for convenience.

Summary

Alexa Internet was a web traffic analysis company owned by Amazon and discontinued as of May 2022. There is no consensus on the reliability of Alexa Internet's website rankings. According to Alexa Internet, rankings of low-traffic websites are less reliable than rankings of high-traffic websites, and rankings of 100,000 and above are unreliable. A March 2022 RfC found no consensus on whether citations of Alexa Internet should be removed now that the service is defunct. Due to their instability, Alexa rankings should be excluded from infoboxes.

Excerpt

Alexa Internet, Inc. was an American web traffic analysis company based in San Francisco, California. It was founded as an independent company by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat in 1996. Alexa provided web traffic data, global rankings, and other information on over 30 million websites. It was acquired by Amazon in 1999 for $250 million in stock. Amazon discontinued the Alexa Internet service on May 1, 2022.

Discussions

Links

RSN

WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 16#Alexa.com

WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 63#Alexa rankings

WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 102#Alexa rankings?

Other

WP:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 173#RfC: Alexa Rankings in Infoboxes

Recency

2022

Rfcs

2022 Rfc

Notes

References

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Source	Status (legend)	Discussions			Use
Source	Status (legend)	List	Last	Summary	Use
Alexa Internet		2022	2022	Alexa Internet was a web traffic analysis company owned by Amazon and discontinued as of May 2022. There is no consensus on the reliability of Alexa Internet's website rankings. According to Alexa Internet, rankings of low-traffic websites are less reliable than rankings of high-traffic websites, and rankings of 100,000 and above are unreliable. A March 2022 RfC found no consensus on whether citations of Alexa Internet should be removed now that the service is defunct. Due to their instability, Alexa rankings should be excluded from infoboxes.	1