TGR ranked #1 !

[Brewski2]

Seen over on T-Tips:

4/19-- Alexa, the Amazon.com owned database of Web site statistics, most well known for its traffic rankings, has some interesting numbers pertaining to snowsport media Web sites. As one would expect, the Web sites with busy forums and large, active communities, lead the list of ski and snowboard sites with the most traffic, and by a wide margin, although there are a few surprises. First, a little background on Alexa and its traffic data collection methodology.
In the simplest of terms, Alexa has established a ranking system for Web sites worldwide, based upon the level of traffic each site receives from the number of people who visit with the Alexa toolbar installed on their computer. The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data, from what Alexa says are millions of users of its toolbar. The Alexa toolbar has features useful to tech and webmaster-types, so Alexa's results tend to be biased in favor of sites with content relevant to those folks. For purposes of comparison within a specific category, such as snowsports media Web sites, Alexa's traffic rankings are worthy of note for those with an interest in the subject.

Finally, here is a little perspective on the actual numbers from Aaron Wall, author of the search engine bible The SEO Book: "A lower Alexa number means a greater level of traffic, and the traffic drops off logarithmically as the ranking number increases." Wall adds that there are techniques webmasters can use to raise their Web site traffic ranking on Alexa, "but if it shows your rankings in the millions, then your site likely has next to no traffic."

Here are the April 19th Alexa Traffic Rankings of most of the ski and snowboard media sites we could think of:


..*new this season **a backdoor to the Couloir site .***defunct, no new updates since 2003

Site
Rank
Tetongravity.com 34,013
Telemarktalk.com 58,760
Skipressworld.com 155,333
Epicski.com 177,898
Telemarktips.com 190,910
Wildsnow.com 267,924
Biglines.com 440,111
Splitboard.com 520,483
Thepiton.com 670,238
Couloirmag.com 1,145,059
TetonAT.com* 1,542,992
Earnyourturns.com** 2,561,731
Freeheellife.com 3,366,898
Descender.com*** 6,913,358


Among the surprises is the relatively strong showing of Lou Dawson's Alpine Touring oriented blog, Wildsnow.com. AT still represents a tiny (but growing) portion of the overall ski industry, with equipment sales of around one third that of tele, which is itself a very small niche, with gear sales less than 3% that of alpine skiing (according to the latest SIA specialty store sales data). For a blog site without a true community type forum, Lou would appear to have done very well in building an audience. Credit Dawson's dedication and work ethic in producing near daily fresh content, as well as his passion and authoritative knowledge, which come through loud in clear in everything he writes.

Outdoor industry insider blog "The Piton" also surprised us. Although not all that high on the list, The Piton's content is narrowly directed to a very limited potential market. But what The Piton lacks in visitors it more than makes up for in attitude... it's an entertaining blog that has gained an audience within the industry by actually having something to say and to to stand for... the pseudo anonymity is a little tiresome but with blog entries like this, it's understandable, especially if you know some of the players and how incestuous the outdoor industry can be. Tomorrow, anyone of these guys and gals could be working for today's object of scorn. Still, The Piton is great fun, and it's cool to see that it's being read


I looked up some more that they missed:
Powmag 373,497
Freeskier 280,328
Newschoolers 105,531
SAC 16,416

[focus]

In Early 2002, powmag would have led that list.

[Damian Sanders]

So, does that mean we have the most members that don't know how to remove spyware from their computers.........................? Great.

[powder11]

its cool the site with the most traffic does the least to moderate members. I bet powmag would kill to have all that traffic back on their site.

[BigJay]

In Early 2002, powmag would have led that list.

Agreed...

[biggins]

So, does that mean we have the most members that don't know how to remove spyware from their computers.........................? Great.

Keep pretending to know, its entertaining.

[BushwackerinPA]

great read love the Steepandcheap stat.

[Tippster]

Yay - moving on..... nothing to see here.... please don't register because you know what skis are....

[72Twenty]

According to the main page:

Most users ever online was 2,628, 01-15-2007 at 06:34 AM.

[FigureEleven]

Does that mean I am famous? Do I need to get a publicist to promote the 365 times I have dropped into Corbet's... I mean logged on to TGR this year?

[Danno]

that SAC stat is scary. FYI, telemarktalk and telemarktips are the same site. Kind of curious what the stats would be if their algorithm combined the 2.

[Singel]

What about Harbl's site?

[backpack]

TGR is at the top simply because the minimal moderation(you ARE moderated, believe it) attracts all the flotsam and jetsam that our classy community just doesn't put up with. Come join up with us, just walk slowly towards the light!

Why are you still here?

[Danno]

Why are you still here?

because he likes using the alias every now and then?

[backpack]

because he likes using the alias every now and then?

He's an alias? Someone needs to make a list for me, I can't keep track anymore...

[sftc]

TGR is at the top simply because the minimal moderation(you ARE moderated, believe it) attracts all the flotsam and jetsam that our classy community just doesn't put up with. Come join up with us, just walk slowly towards the light!

AplineZone guy, a few questions for ya:

So how is insulting this place supposed to convince people to come over to your lonely hole in the web?

Why do you keep trying to attract the unclassy TGR crowd?

Since A--Zone is obviously a commercial site, are you paying the TGR guys to advertise it or are you just another freeloading spammer?

Why are you always hanging out around here? Nobody around over at A--Zone?

Considering I live in Colorado, and I've skied in the East maybe 10 days in the last 10 years (and that's more then most people around here) why should I give a rat's ass about an East Coast skiing website?

I've only seen a couple of ocean sailing/boating threads on TGR, so where is all of this flotsam and jetsam you speak of?

Come join up with us, just walk slowly towards the light! Is this a Ted Haggard quote?

Just wondering.....

[Damian Sanders]

Keep pretending to know, its entertaining.

Nevermind, I didn't fully read the original post......

Seems we are the top choice of....geeks?

[summit]

Traffic Rank for a--zone.com: 398,662

Epic is kicking your ass

AZ is bitching because his traffic is down 59% over the last 3 months.

[summit]

And AZ seems to also own coskiing.com

If you don't like AZ spamming TGR, I suggest you contact:

Gregory Blasko
96 Marthas Way
Thomaston, CT 06787

Phone: +1 203 206 9147

(this information is automatically displayed by alexa.com when the website is entered)
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/ma...alpinezone.com

[SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU FUCKING MORON!]

Why are you still here?

Why are you such a fucking moron!

SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU FUCKING MORON!

[powstash]

the one thing that is not very telling is that the Alexa ranking only takes into account those traffic users (yous and mes) who actually have the Alexa tool bar installed like I do. Although the rankings are more accurate for rankings sub 100K, the accuracy is suspect for most rankings really over the 10K mark.

I'm not trying to bag on the rankings but it leads me to think that a site like TetonAT.com which is SOLID stoke with regular content and often frequented by myself who has the Alexa tool installed may be frequented by a pile of backcountry skiers who don't work/live on the web and who have never heard of Alexa.

Still, it's impressive to see where TGR is in the rankings. And yes, powmag was the shiz back in the day and likely tops in late 2002 early 2003.

A**zone boy - you really are a douchbag.

[AdironRider]

The Azone guy is definately an alias.

[72Twenty]

FOAM FINGERS FOR EVERYONE!!!

[AlpineZone]

Here are the April 19th Alexa Traffic Rankings of most of the ski and snowboard media sites we could think of:

Site
Rank
Tetongravity.com 34,013
Telemarktalk.com 58,760
Skipressworld.com 155,333
Epicski.com 177,898
Telemarktips.com 190,910
Wildsnow.com 267,924
Biglines.com 440,111
Splitboard.com 520,483
Thepiton.com 670,238
Couloirmag.com 1,145,059
TetonAT.com* 1,542,992
Earnyourturns.com** 2,561,731
Freeheellife.com 3,366,898
Descender.com*** 6,913,358

Hi, Brewskier!: You forgot the best ski info and forums on the world wide interweb. - We finished ahead of Biglines, woo-hoo!~

Traffic Rank for alpinezone.com: 398,662

TGR is at the top simply because the minimal moderation(you ARE moderated, believe it) attracts all the flotsam and jetsam that our classy community just doesn't put up with. Come join up with us, just walk slowly towards the light!

[teledave]

SkiNC.com 479,481

Not too shabby, for a site on Southeastern skiing.