Alexa and Open Source: The Most Visited Open Source Websites

In this publication we will do a brief review of the most visited websites on «Código Abierto (Open Source)» according classification (ranking) provided by the recognized website specialized in these topics to register the positioning of the websites, called Alexa, of the company Alexa Internet. Which, in turn, is a subsidiary of the company Amazon.com, which as expected, is based on U.S., specifically in the state of California, since the year 1997.

Basically what the web does Alexa is to provide the public that the consultation, with the historical traffic information of a certain website, that is, the number of visits that it receives, so that it can be placed within range with many others within the vast and growing Internet.

How does the Alexa ranking work?

«Alexa», shows us on its website, the results displayed in 3 different waysthat is to say global form, by country or category. And in detail, it shows us, among many other information, a small statistic of which countries generate the most traffic and which countries the users of a certain website come from. All this information is possible, since «Alexa» collects such data from users who have installed the bar of «Alexa».

For the global view, it shows us details such as:

• Daily time on site (Daily Time on Site): Estimated daily time on site (mm: ss) per visitor. Updated daily based on the previous 3 months.
• Daily pageviews per visitor (Daily Pageviews per Visitor): Daily estimate of unique page views per visitor to the site. Updated daily based on the previous 3 months.
• % of search traffic (% of Traffic From Search): The percentage of all referrals that came from search engines in the last month. Updated daily.
• Total linked sites (Total Sites Linking In): The total number of sites that Alexa found that link to this site.

For view by country, shows us the same details, but selecting only one country at a time. And for the view by category It shows us several filters, to start a more specific search for the websites to be analyzed.

Open Source: The most visited websites until 2019

For our special case, that is, the best or most visited sites on «Código Abierto (Open Source)» you must choose the category «Ordenadores (Computers)», among the many others available, which are:

• Adult (Adult)
• Arts (Arts)
• Business
• Computers
• Games (Games)
• Health
• Home (Home)
• Children and Teens
• News (News)
• Recreation
• Reference
• Regional (Regional)
• Science
• Shopping
• Society
• Sports
• World (world)

Then from the category «Ordenadores (Computers)», we must choose «Código Abierto (Open Source)» and there any sub-category of our interest. For our publication we will focus on the section «Noticias y Medios (News and Media)». In this section we will find the best sites in English, according to the parameters of «Alexa», to read posts about «Código Abierto (Open Source)». And the 12 registered are:

Now that you know, the potential of «Alexa», they can explore, analyze and compare any website they want by just hitting the link below «Run website analytics«. Once in this section, you only need to place the domain of the site to be explored to obtain detailed information about it. Information such as the following:

• Keyword Opportunities Breakdown: Section that includes the recommendations of personalized keywords that this site could direct to attract more traffic.
• Comparison metrics: Section that shows the metrics that allow you to see how this site compares with its competitors.
• Similar Sites by Audience Overlap: Section that shows the sites that share the same visitors and search for keywords with this site, ordered by overlap from highest to least overlap.
• Keywords by traffic (Top Keywords by Traffic): Section showing the top organic keywords that are driving traffic to this site.
• Alexa Rank 90 Day Trend (Alexa Rank 90 Day Trend): Section showing an estimate of the popularity of the site. Rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors to this site and page views on this site over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and page views ranks first. Therefore, the graph presented shows the trend of the Alexa Ranking for this site in a period of 90 days.

Conclusion

From now on, we can analyze and compare our favorite sites on «Software Libre, Código Abierto y GNU/Linux» using the measurements of «Alexa», which are one of the most respected on the Internet, both for Sponsors as for Advertisers (Advertisers). That is, they take into account the position of a website in said ranking to promote and sell your products, since this ranking allows them to measure the audience that each website in the world has.

Yes, this theme of Ranking sites, their importance and use you liked it, we invite you to read 2 old articles of our own blog on that particular, called: (Opinion) Online reputation, copy / paste and Linux sites in English y SEO and Web Positioning? SEO + Linux.

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