Im part of that big 3.5%... yeay!!!!

i guess i am 0.1% from the bahamas -_-

Yay, isn't this fun?

weeeeee, Croatia 1.1% !

Belgium
1.0%

Strange The Netherlands haves 0.8%.

=/ I only know one other belgian inhabitant on this site and more than 5 from the Netherlands.

Is Alexa supposed to be serious? There might be a strong bias in their coverage, after all people have to specifically install an Alexa application which they use for tracking, isn't it?

Do they attempt to do any corrections to account for any possible coverage bias?

How could they be bias?

They track over 10 million websites across the world, and they're obviously using some kind of program to track traffic, so I don't see where the bias would come from.

I think the term you're thinking of is inaccuracy.

If I was a new user, I know I'd be frustrated beyond the point of wanting to come back some of the times I come here. It's painfully slow at times.  But seeing as I'm hooked on looking at numbers now, I bear with it.

Yes, they have to install the software to count pageviews, but that's all it does, is count pageviews. There's no bias there.  It's just a sampling of what web traffic is doing on any given day.  No one said it's a 100% accounting of all Internet tracking.

I think in another thread, ioi mentioned that everytime the sites goes down, someone is attacking it (DOS). So that's likely the problem.