http://slagwerks.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/20/did-something-happen-late-last-winter-to-bostoncom/ Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:44:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://slagwerks.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/20/did-something-happen-late-last-winter-to-bostoncom/comment-page-1/#comment-7 joe Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:42:42 +0000 http://slagwerks.com/blog/?p=12#comment-7 Certainly could be that or something similar. Sampling internet traffic by way of an optional IE toolbar is interesting, but probably not super accurate. One thing I find interesting about the alexa stats is that they're all relative. So, the graph I posted is showing "pageviews per million", in other words for every million pages viewed by people with the alexa toolbar, about 100 were to boston.com. If a change such as an ie7 upgrade affected sampling of boston.com traffic at rates similar to traffic as a whole, you wouldn't expect to see a downturn. But when <a href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=boston.com&site1=bostonherald.com&site2=&site3=&site4=&y=p&z=1&h=300&w=500&range=3y&size=Medium&url=boston.com" rel="nofollow">compared to views of bostonherald.com</a>, you can see a definite downward trend in boston.com traffic. Maybe boston.com readers are higher up on the new tech adoption curve than herald readers? http://slagwerks.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/20/did-something-happen-late-last-winter-to-bostoncom/comment-page-1/#comment-6 bunkah Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:45:28 +0000 http://slagwerks.com/blog/?p=12#comment-6 Probably the installation(upgrade) to ie7 breaks or uninstalls the alexa toolbar. Probably the installation(upgrade) to ie7 breaks or uninstalls the alexa toolbar.

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