I was wondering if anyone could offer up rough estimates that could tell me how many hits a day move you into a given Alexa rank ?Top     5,000Top    10,000Top    50,000Top   100,000Top   500,000Top 1,000,000I know this is incredibly subjective and thus the broad brush strokes with the number ranges... BUT I've got a site currently ranked just over 1.2M worldwide and over 500k in the USA (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fstr.net)Pretty cool for something hand-built on weekends (pat self on back)I was applying to an ad-platform and was told that their program doesn't accept webmasters who have an Alexa rank of greater than 100,000.  (Time to take back that pat on the back I guess).I know that my hits in the last 30 days are somewhere on the order of 15,000 uniques and 20,000 pageviews.  So I'm wondering how much harder do I have to work to achieve my next goals?I'd like to break into the top million, then re-evaluate from there.  It'd be nice to know what those targets translate into (very roughly of course).I imagine that alexa ranks and tiers become very much exponential as you move up the ranks, but even hearing annecdotal evidence from other webmasters would be really useful to me.(ie: I have a site that is ranked X and it got Y hits in the last 30 days)
Estimate of Hits / Visits / Uniques in order to fall within a given Alexa Tier?
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Being a professional web developer I've built and hosted many sites, including personal projects. Here is a range of data from different sites that should help you. Numbers are per month - specifically, the last 30 days from Google Analytics - and rounded to the nearest 100.1,800 Visits, 10,800 Pageviews -- Alexa #5,858,20046,800 Visits, 143,800 Pageviews -- Alexa #255,00056,900 Visits, 106,900 Pageviews -- Alexa #181,20086,900 Visits, 184,400 Pageviews -- Alexa #306,300684,500 Visits, 6,267,300 Pageviews -- Alexa #74,400You can at least see that Alexa's data is not all that reliable since #4 is a bit of an anomaly. Its traffic has dropped in the last couple of months but even extrapolating last week's data to the 30-day range, it still has more visits than #3.It should also be noted that Alexa guesses website ranks based on people with the Alexa toolbar installed. This means firstly that any site outside the top 100,000 is not measured accurately (as Alexa state themselves). Second, I believe it's possible to fudge the results yourself by installing the toolbar and visiting your own site regularly.