Alexa is spinning the decision as a step forward without admitting to previous flaws: Your ranking wasn’t wrong before, but it was different.

Amazon announced that it will retire its Alexa.com ranking site on May 1, 2022. The site has operated for approximately 25 years, having been acquired by Amazon in 1999 for $250 million.

Now being in the Alexa top 100,000 actually means something! For more or less 8 years (well 10 for one of them) there have been only two across the board. Skip to content. Subscribe.

Before Amazon's Alexa became known as the e-commerce giant's voice assistant, it was the name of the company's web ranking site. It was established in 1996 and became famous sometime ago for ...

Amazon announced on Wednesday plans to shut down its global website ranking system and competitor analysis tool "Alexa.com", which has been available for 25 years.

Alexa Rank is a metric that offers a measurement of site popularity. In the early 2000s the data was collected via an Alexa toolbar that users downloaded and surfed with.

Amazon early next year will pull the plug on Alexa.com — a website ranking and analytics service that’s unrelated to the ecommerce giant’s Alexa voice assistant platform. “After more than ...

Alexa came on board in 1996 but was bought by Amazon in 1999. It has provided web traffic analysis since then. Amazon has now indicated that the Alexa service will be retired by May 1, 2022.