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Re : Re: Re : Ranking of Canadian Chess Sites on March 5, 2014
Ranking ? Bof... what does that REALLY means ?
Personnaly, I rarely go to chess.ca (once a month, maybe).
And it is always the same old may 2011 news on many articles, the very deceptive french translation and the weird necessity to go to another URL for a canadian forum .
A very big improvement will be to put the CCN on line. In 2014, there is absolutely no necessity to wait for the «paper» version (PDF is just that : paper on the screen). I think a CCN article SHOULD be published as soon as it is available with a dynamic chess board.
I believe there is a very good thinking CFC admin should do about the site.
Cordialement,
Gilles
PS. Please excuse my poor english.
Last edited by Gilles G. Jobin; Saturday, 8th March, 2014, 08:52 AM.
Reason: suppression newsfeed
Re : Re: Re : Ranking of Canadian Chess Sites on March 5, 2014
The statistics are not much accurate for small websites.
If you try with another website (http://www.similarweb.com/), we get :
Rank in Canada
Chesstalk.info
152,414
Chesstalk.com
80,256
Chess.ca
82,235
FQE :
82,452
Annex Chess Club
260,074
You can see that Alexa's statistics for the Annex Chess Club are probably wrong or not reprensentative by their top keywords from search engine :
1. groningen shaakfestival 54.22%
2. hikaru nakamura 4.35%
3. anand vs carlsen live 4.18%
4. harmony zhu 3.61%
5. nigel short 3.40%
Basically, that would mean that less than 3% of people coming from Google were actually looking for the club...
Wow! Thanks Egidijus...so let me see...a Toronto chess club has more hits than the CFC and the FQE???
Hits are another story :) There could be a lot of robots/spam/hackers going on. Some time ago torontochess.org was attacked and all bandwidth was drained. Still it goes but an IP deny function kicks them back.
[Mon Mar 10 07:59:14 2014] [error] [client 204.12.239.210] client denied by server configuration: /home/...
[Mon Mar 10 07:59:04 2014] [error] [client 204.12.239.210] client denied by server configuration: /home/...
[Mon Mar 10 07:58:45 2014] [error] [client 204.12.239.210] client denied by server configuration: /home/...
Every min there is a hit, and there are several IP.
Check your raw data you might find an interesting things for chesstalks too.
Anyway, if Google gives for "Toronto chess" the GTCL website http://www.torontochess.org in the first place, interested players should find a way to clubs :)
Re: Re : Ranking of Canadian Chess Sites on March 5, 2014
Tried comparing a few sites on Alexa:
Not sure how "real" these rankings are.
Google Analytics shows 3880 visits in the last month, peaking at 381 visits on Friday March 7, with a lot of people checking out Tyler's Reykjavik blog (Iceland is now our #3 source country).
Our top 3 referrals are chesstalk, facebook - Tyler's been sharing the link on FB, and the Reykjavik Open website - they posted about Tyler's blog :)
Our top 3 keywords are (not provided)?!, annex chess, and annex chess club.
Seems more legit, but then it doesn't compare us to other sites.
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