Weird Alexa Spike

[annie]

I checked my Alexa stats today. I'd jumped from somewere from around 300,000 average to 75,158 today. I could see the spike at the far end of the diagram graphic there.

 

Sooo, did I get more visitors, or does this have something to do with the site now residing on a different server? I noticed the TCH has a better traffic rating than my old host (who had a better traffic hosting than I did anyway).

[annie]

You guys responsible?

 

What if a number of those among you who visited my site after I posted the link had the Alexa toolbar installed? Would that account for the spike?

 

I know many of you have Firefox, so discount those. But even so, there might be a few left who does have Alexa installed?

[Deverill]

The server makes no difference in this case unless your last host had connectivity problems keeping people away. Alexa just knows they are going to www.****** and doesn't even know where that is... as I understand it. It would make no sense for them to track IP addresses for sites.

 

Posting here with links we can follow does tend to do interesting things to one's traffic though.

[annie]

I did notice about 35 visits from here on yesterday's awstats. But my site receives so much traffic in general (mostly bookmarked, google and newsletter genereated), so that shouldn't give much of a boost compared to general traffic patterns. If it's because of TCH, it's demographics related. In that a good percentage of the users here having Alexa installed.

 

The traffic pattern hasn't changed much, according to the stats, although I can't tell for sure if Analog and Awstat counts the same way. Probably about the same way, though. Requests for pages are about the same level, maybe even lower (I removed some pages, that might affect the stats).