Indeed - Who watches the watchmen? The internet's best known traffic counter seems to have developed a bias.
From Anthony Watts:
Smells fishy: Alexa’s data blunder hits Drudge, WUWT, mostly favors leftist news sites over conservative news sites
As many WUWT readers know, I have been using alexa.com for quite sometime to gauge the performance of WUWT. Reader “Pat” brought this recent strange disparity to my attention. When you see things like the Drudge report plummet and MSNBC soar, you know immediately that something isn’t right:
Those who run watchdog news websites are scratching their heads and trying to make sense of the latest data released by a California company that measures website traffic.
According to data for July through September, almost every major website – from WND to the Drudge Report and Breitbart – saw its rankings drop on Alexa.com while pro-government sites mostly went up.
Source: WND
The claim seems to be true when you look at Alexa’s publicly reported traffic graphs. Here’s the Drudge Report according to Alexa:
Looks like Alexa just jumped the shark - they probably thought that they could slip-stream this "correction" and nobody would notice. Don't they realize that the internet was designed to route around damage.
They just lost their brand and their revenue. They are a subsidiary of Amazon - very surprised that the folks at Amazon let this happen...
