Alexa ranking, indexing update

The official three-month average figure has been updated again, adjusted up to 1,936,670.

Meanwhile the one-week average, which is clearly on a daily refresh, has now reached 288,328.

If you haven't already guessed, I have the Alexa toolbar installed on the machine that I use most often.

Alexa's rank is based on "a combined measure of page views and users". Google analytics (which I installed only on Tuesday, so it's short a couple of days in the analysis) shows 69 visits and 131 page views. That's enough to get the site into the top 300k, apparently. Most of those will I think be me. Google analytics shows a number of entries from elsewhere, but I can't help wondering whether some of those are to do with the locations of the third party site tools that I have been examining the site with (for example, spider simulators etc).

Something that will not surprise seasoned Google-watchers is that the home page for the blog, having been in the index yesterday with a cache date of 8 March, has disappeared again, but I'm glad to say that the site hasn't been totally removed - a single previous post about the BBC is still coming up (as the only entry) on a Google site: search.

If one spends any time at the forums where they worry about this sort of thing, such as WebmasterWorld, one sees endless variations on the "where did my new site go?" posts from concerned site builders and owners. What tends to happen is that unless the site is a really horrible spamsite, the pages come back into the index reasonably quickly.