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Last week I spent some time on a web ranking website and looked at which chess websites were the most popular over the past 3 months.
The top Canadian sites were (in World ranking order):
1 monroi.com
2 chesstalk.info
3 chess.ca
4 fqechecs.qc.ca
5 windsorchess.ca
6 canadianchess.info
7 annexchessclub.com
8 2011cycc.ca
9 chessquotes.com
The rankings below this level of tracking are questionable because of the low number of visitors with Alexa software installed, but it’s still fun to look at how the Canadian sites are ranked.
Rising sites have been: edmontonchessclub.org, langleychess.com, chesstalk.com, cjcc2012.ca, bcjuniorchess.com, saskchess.com, rovingchessnuts.com, bramptonchess.ca, calgarychess.com, chessontario.com, eoca.org, mississaugachessclub.ca, and ohscc.on.ca.
Dropping down have been mainly inactive blogs and tournament sites: yuanlingyuan.blogspot.com, markbluvshtein.wordpress.com, chessfest.ca, chess-math.org, chesschumpion.blogspot.com, fraserheightschess.com, casetete64.blogspot.com, canadianchess.info, chesschallenge.ca, brantchess.ca, and 2011cycc.ca.
Last week I spent some time on a web ranking website and looked at which chess websites were the most popular over the past 3 months.
The top sites (not including game sites like Yahoo and subsites of hosts) in the World were:
1 chess.com
2 gameknot.com
3 chessbase.com
4 fide.com
5 chessgames.com
6 chesscube.com
7 chess-results.com
8 chesspro.ru
9 redhotpawn.com
10 chessdom.com
In Sept. I visited the internet ranking site Alexa.com and made a list of chess sites. I have revisited to see if the rankings have changed. The number at the end is the world ranking in September/over the past three months. Not included are game sites like yahoo or msn where chess is just one of the games.
Rising sites have been: chesstempo.com, latestchess.com, uschess.org, susanpolgar.blogspot.com, freechess.org, chessdom.com, europe-echecs.com, schachbund.de, whychess.org, redhotpawn.com, chessninja.com, and newinchess.com
Dropping down have been: pogonina.com, crestbook.com, ajedrezonline.com, chessclub.com (ICC), chess-online.ru, pakchess.org, russiachess.org, chesshere.com, ficgs.com, and kevinspraggett.blogspot.com.
Do you avid chess website visitors think that it would be a good idea for the CFC website to have a problem/game of the day/week?
The CFC website has to be vibrant in many aspects, not just the source of the latest rating information. I'm sure many players would be interested to provide their personal game analysis for the site and they should be displayed with multiple diagrams to avoid the use of the board, in the similar style as can be seen on Kevin Spragett blog. Only this small addition will be a huge improvement in the traffic. But, we all know, it will never happen.
Hi Erik : I like your lists.
A few weeks ago I made myself a short list of sites entitled :"Daily Chess Puzzles" they are listed in order of personal preference:
Hi Erik : I like your lists.
A few weeks ago I made myself a short list of sites entitled :"Daily Chess Puzzles" they are listed in order of personal preference:
From Wikipedia (of course - that means it MUST be true) :)
Alexa ranks sites based on tracking information of users of its Alexa Toolbar for Internet Explorer and from integrated sidebars in Firefox and Chrome. Hence the page is only ranked between users who have these sidebars installed and may be biased if specific audience is reluctant to do this (Windows Defender has classified the sidebar as malware while it assigns it to trojans). Also, the rank is based on three month data and takes a long time to reflect changes in content that may happen after the domain has been sold[citation needed]. Finally, low ranks cannot be accurate not just because of the lack of data but also because of statistic laws related to the long tail distribution.
Thanks. Yes it's not real data, based mainly on 1-5% of the Internet traffic, but it corelates like telephone surveys. Other sites like compete and quantcast do the same thing, only following a small US sample. Apparently more accurace for sites in the first 100,000, which is like 1,000 visitors a day. Websites can fudge their ranking.
From Wikipedia (of course - that means it MUST be true) :)
Alexa ranks sites based on tracking information of users of its Alexa Toolbar for Internet Explorer and from integrated sidebars in Firefox and Chrome. Hence the page is only ranked between users who have these sidebars installed and may be biased if specific audience is reluctant to do this (Windows Defender has classified the sidebar as malware while it assigns it to trojans). Also, the rank is based on three month data and takes a long time to reflect changes in content that may happen after the domain has been sold[citation needed]. Finally, low ranks cannot be accurate not just because of the lack of data but also because of statistic laws related to the long tail distribution.
The top websites like google, facebook, yahoo would be number 1, 2, 3. Sites that are rarely visited are like 25,000,000. So the lower the number, the higher ranked. The top sites also have a breakdown for countires in which they are top, how long visitors stayed, keywords and an audience summary which I think is pretty bogus (like I'm online at the library which has no stats on my age, gender and education).
This is not the number of visitors. It is also only for the last 3 months and the figures jump alot day to day. Summer tournaments would make some sites high, while I would expect school sites would be quieter.
Remember that only sites that have the Alexa toolbar installed are included in their rankings. There are probably thousands of unranked (by Alexa) chess sites which are not on their list.
That's not true. Can you give examples of high activity chess sites without data on the Alexa site? I found listings for 400 chess sites, 50 in Canada, and I know that almost all local ones have no awareness of alexa and do not have a toolbar.
The major restriction is that a site can't be a subsite of a host, such as the Victoria Chess Club. And Alexa have missed some things, like monroi not having sufficent Canadian traffic.
As well as being one of the top websites visited by Canadians, Spraggett's blog is one of the top chess blogs in the world (given with world ranking on alexa.com), albeit that some blogs are on chess news websites:
Remember that only sites that have the Alexa toolbar installed are included in their rankings. There are probably thousands of unranked (by Alexa) chess sites which are not on their list.
As well as being one of the top websites visited by Canadians, Spraggett's blog is one of the top chess blogs in the world (given with world ranking on alexa.com), albeit that some blogs are on chess news websites:
Last week I spent some time on a web ranking website and looked at which chess websites were the most popular over the past 3 months.
The top sites (not including game sites like Yahoo and subsites of hosts) in the World were:
1 chess.com
2 gameknot.com
3 chessbase.com
4 fide.com
5 chessgames.com
6 chesscube.com
7 chess-results.com
8 chesspro.ru
9 redhotpawn.com
10 chessdom.com
The top Canadian sites were (in World ranking order):
1 monroi.com
2 chesstalk.info
3 chess.ca
4 fqechecs.qc.ca
5 windsorchess.ca
6 canadianchess.info
7 annexchessclub.com
8 2011cycc.ca
9 chessquotes.com
Any guesses on rearranging this list of player's websites in ranking order:
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