What is "Alexa"?

Do you know "Alexa"? Alexa Internet,Inc. is company which it analyze website traffic one of the businesses. This company was bought by Amazon.com in 1999.


What is the popular website? How much is website traffic? These questions are interested to everyone. You can analyze Alexa's website which you only input a domain name.

For example, which search engine is very popular? I compared it on Alexa's website. Image below is comparing "google.com", "yahoo.com" and "msn.com". You can see search engine's trend. This is very fun.


Alexa have global traffic ranking. The ranking made me surprised. Because, there is two Chinese website into the top 10. I didn't know that China have so many users on the web.

1. Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com)
2. MSN (www.msn.com )
   
3. Google (www.google.com)
4. YouTube (www.youtube.com)
5. Windows Live (www.live.com)
6. Myspace (www.myspace.com)
7. Baidu.com (www.baidu.com)
   
8. Orkut (www.orkut.com)
9. Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org)
10. QQ.com (www.qq.com)