A New Frontier of Informetric and Webometric Research: Mining Web Usage Data

Vaughan, Liwen

doi:10.1080/09737766.2008.10700851

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“…Alexa provides a set of metrics that enable in‐depth analysis of website users’ behavior, including bounce rate, daily time on site, and number of websites hyperlinked to a given website. Liwen Vaughan () and Vaughan and Rongbin Yang (, ) discussed the advantages and drawbacks of Alexa data for webometric analysis. It was emphasized that Alexa provides better data than similar services because it includes the greatest number of websites and is the most strongly correlated with measures of institutional efficiency.…”

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A Global Approach to the Spatial Diversity and Dynamics of Internet Domains

Janc

2016

Geographical Review

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The objective of this paper is to describe the place of individual countries in digital space through the lens of Internet domains and specific websites. We will discuss the global geography of domains in reference to states and other entities of spatial organization, and changes in the positions of individual websites. These issues will be approached with an awareness of the significant changes taking place in the functioning of the Web, particularly cyberbalkanization. This study mainly used data from Alexa rankings, the best free source of information available on the behavior of Internet users. One conclusion is the clear U.S. dominance over other countries in relation to number of most popular domains. Despite the clear U.S. dominance, the BRIC countries—Brazil, Russia, India, and China—play an increasingly significant role in the geography of domains. The trends discussed in this article are related to the so‐called balkanization of the Internet. Regulations of its functioning and the growing importance of national websites and search engines have contributed to deepening the differences between Internet users in different countries.

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A Global Approach to the Spatial Diversity and Dynamics of Internet Domains

Janc

2016

Geographical Review

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“…Based on data from the Alexa tool, the study (Thakur et al, 2011) evaluates the significance of individual SEO elements. Data from Alexa are used or recommended by several more studies (Callaway, 2011;Vaughan, 2008). However, none of these research studies focus on the quality of the website traffic data acquired by Alexa, nor do any of them refer to other studies that would deal with this issue.…”

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Website traffic measurement and rankings: competitive intelligence tools examination

Prantl

2018

IJWIS

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine and verify the competitive intelligence tools Alexa and SimilarWeb, which are broadly used for website traffic data estimation. Tested tools belong to the state of the art in this area. Design/methodology/approach The authors use quantitative approach. Research was conducted on a sample of Czech websites for which there are accurate traffic data values, against which the other data sets (less accurate) provided by Alexa and SimilarWeb will be compared. Findings The results show that neither tool can accurately determine the ranking of websites on the internet. However, it is possible to approximately determine the significance of a particular website. These results are useful for another research studies which use data from Alexa or SimilarWeb. Moreover, the results show that it is still not possible to accurately estimate website traffic of any website in the world. Research limitations/implications The limitation of the research lies in the fact that it was conducted solely in the Czech market. Originality/value Significant amount of research studies use data sets provided by Alexa and SimilarWeb. However, none of these research studies focus on the quality of the website traffic data acquired by Alexa or SimilarWeb, nor do any of them refer to other studies that would deal with this issue. Furthermore, authors describe approaches to measuring website traffic and based on the analysis, the possible usability of these methods is discussed.

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“…Jak każdy ranking, Alexa ma swoje zalety i wady. Jedną z istotnych zalet jest to, że w porównaniu do innych tego typu rankingów, Alexa obejmuje najwięcej serwisów WWW oraz udostępniane dane są najsil-niej skorelowane z miarami efektywności instytucji (Vaughan, 2008;Vaughan i Yang, 2012;. Podstawową wadą rankingu jest zaś to, że powstaje przy pewnej selektywności doboru danych, związanej z koniecznością korzystania przez użytkownika z paska narzędziowego Alexa.…”

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Internet domain name geography – selected aspects

Janc¹

2015

Prz. Geogr.

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Zarys treści. W artykule przedstawiono miejsce poszczególnych państw w cyberprzestrzeni przez pryzmat domen internetowych. Podstawowym źródłem danych był portal Alexa, prezentujący dane dotyczące najpopularniejszych serwisów internetowych na świecie. Okres analizy obejmuje 5 lat. Na tej podstawie dokonano charakterystyki zróżnicowań domen internetowych funkcjonalnych i krajowych. Przedstawione wyniki wskazują na zauważalną, choć słabnącą, przewagę najbardziej rozwiniętych państw świata oraz tendencję do "bałkanizacji" Internetu.

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A New Frontier of Informetric and Webometric Research: Mining Web Usage Data

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

A Global Approach to the Spatial Diversity and Dynamics of Internet Domains

A Global Approach to the Spatial Diversity and Dynamics of Internet Domains

Website traffic measurement and rankings: competitive intelligence tools examination

Internet domain name geography – selected aspects

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