File:Alexa_Internet_logo.svg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Alexa Internet
Sign in to saveAlso known as Alexa, alexa.com, Alexa Internet, Inc.
former American web traffic analysis company
Alexa Internet was an American company that analyzed and tracked web traffic patterns to help people understand how popular websites were and how visitors used them. It mattered because websites and businesses relied on this data to benchmark their online performance against competitors and make decisions about their web strategies.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- database
- Named after
- Library of Alexandria
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- California
- Owned by
- Amazon
- Parent organization
- Amazon
- Industry
- Internet
- Official website
- www.alexa.com
- Image
- Screenshots of Alexa internet.PNG
Show 12 more facts
- inception
- 1996-04-00
- Stack Exchange tag
- webmasters.stackexchange.com/tags/alexa
- Commons category
- Alexa Internet
- product or material produced
- Alexa Toolbar
- Alexa rank
- 3871
- search formatter URL
- www.alexa.com/siteinfo/$1
- capital cost
- 250000000
- language of work or name
- English language
- official blog URL
- blog.alexa.com
- social media followers
- 15275
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2022-05-01
- different from
- Amazon Alexa
Sources (10)
via Wikidata · CC0
~10 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Alexa Internet, Inc. was an American web traffic analysis company based in San Francisco, California. It was founded as an independent company by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat in 1996. Alexa provided web traffic data, global rankings, and other information on over 30 million websites. It was acquired by Amazon in 1999 for $250 million in stock. Amazon discontinued the Alexa Internet service on May 1, 2022.
Alexa estimated website traffic based on a sample of millions of Internet users using browser extensions as well as from sites that had chosen to install an Alexa script. As of 2020, its website was visited by over 400 million people every month.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alexa Internet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (3)
Available in 72 languages
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- 中文
- 日本語
- Русский
- Português
- Italiano
- العربية
- हिन्दी
- Albanian
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Bangla
- bat_smg
- be_x_old
- Belarusian
Show 53 more
- Bikol
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Burmese
- Catalan
- Central Kurdish
- Croatian
- Czech
- dty
- Egyptian Arabic
- Esperanto
- Fiji Hindi
- Finnish
- Galician
- Georgian
- Haitian Creole
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Igbo
- Kyrgyz
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Maithili
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Maltese
- Nederlands
- Nepali
- Norwegian
- Pashto
- Polski
- Quechua
- Romanian
- Scots
- Serbian
- simple
- Sindhi
- Somali
- Svenska
- Tamil
- Tiếng Việt
- Türkçe
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uzbek
- Western Panjabi
- Wu Chinese
- zh_yue
- Zulu
- فارسی
- ไทย
- 한국어
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0