Alexa.com

Alexa.com calls itself the Web Information company. It was initially founded in 1996 and the website provides users with a wealth of information and statistics based on web sites that are on the Internet. It provides information which is updated regularly and is useful for anyone who might own a site or others who just want to see what the top sites are at the moment and whats hot in the internet world. Once you go to the homepage there are a few tabs and links at the top of the screen. If you click on top sites you will see a list of the top 500 global sites. On this page you will see the common names you would expect in the top 10 with the likes of Google, ...  Read the complete review

Alexa is a "Web Information company". They provide various different stats about almost every site available on the internet. Alexa collect the information about websites on the internet by people using their Alexa Toolbar which you can read about here - http://www.alexa.com/site/download When you visit a site this sends some information back to Alexa which allows them to see how popular a website is. The stats that Alexa make available are stats like the "reach" for that site. That means what percent of the global Internet users visited this site. They also provide information on the average number of page views that site has per user ...  Read the complete review