the world, or part of it

I was curious to how some of the current Web services are doing in terms of traffic, and I stumbled across Alexaholic, a service built to do just that. It is a site built to track some of the top sites in terms of traffic per day. You can compare up to five of your favorite sites and see who is performing the best. You could also compare similar or competing sites and see who is winning out. However, if you site is not in the top 100,000 in terms of traffic, you wont see you site or blog there.

I had a little fun with it and decided to put in some of the big blog sites and see who is numero uno with traffic. I assume it will be Google’s Blooger because of the plain and simple fact that it is a Google product…..After typing in all of the services and letting Alexaholic do its work, I was correct in my guess. In first place by a considerable margin was Blogger, then it was followed by Xanga and Livejournal which have been battling the spot out, and in last place is our dear WordPress. WordPress is in last place, but peoplejust dont see its top-knotch quality.

After having more fun with various other websites, I thought I’d take a look at the matchups that Alexaholic has already. They compared the top trafficed web sites on the Internet: Yahoo!, Google, and MSN. The sites started out vey far apart because it tracks back a few years, but as one can see, the gap has closed and Google is number one.

As you can see, one can get wrapped up in comparing web site traffic. Everyone must go out, compare websites, and find out the most fascinating results. If you’ve ever thought one website outshined another, and it turns out that you were way off, let me know about it.