The 1.Alexa rankings are ranked according to the number of visitors to each particular Web site. The greater the number of visits, the more forward.
2. The amount of traffic included in the statistics comes only from users using the Alexa toolbar (Alexa Toolbar). That is, only users download the Alexa toolbar and embed it in their browser. In this way, the user accesses a Web site, and the records they visit can count as the number of visits to the site. According to Alexa statistics, the user now uses the toolbar up to millions of.
The 3.Alexa toolbar works only under the Windows operating system and is available in the Internet Exploer browser, and access to other operating systems or browsers cannot be counted.
4. Access to security or encrypted sites (such as the use of HTTPS protocol), Alexa toolbar will automatically shut down, so those high safety factors of the site, Alexa will not be able to search and statistics rankings.
5. The use of Alexa toolbar users of the language, geography, culture and other aspects of the impact. Therefore, the English web site, compared to other languages of the site, the traffic data is more easily to be fully counted.