About Alexa Internet
Founded in April 1996, Alexa Internet grew out of a vision of Web navigation that is intelligent and constantly improving with the participation of its users. Along the way Alexa has developed an installed based of millions of toolbars, one of the largest Web crawls and an infrastructure to process and serve massive amounts of data. For users of Alexa's Toolbar and web site this has resulted in products that have revolutionized Web navigation and intelligence. For developers this has resulted in a set of tools unprecedented in scope allowing whole new services to be created on the Alexa data and platform.
Alexa Products and ServicesAlexa Toolbar
Alexa could not exist without the participation of the Alexa Toolbar community. Each member of the community, in addition to getting a useful tool, is giving back. Simply by using the toolbar each member contributes valuable information about the web, how it is used, what is important and what is not. This information is returned to the community as Related Links, Traffic Rankings and more.
Want to help? Install the Alexa Toolbar, and tell your friends. The more people use Alexa, the more useful it will be.
Alexa.com
Alexa's Web site is built on the notion that timely and relevant information is essential to a vital web experience.
Alexa Search and Browse - Alexa has taken search and browse to the next level and made it more complete, more relevant and more useful. Some key features include thumbnail images of sites and site information balloons, both of which help you to make quick decisions about which results are useful to you and which are not. Try Search and Browse.
Alexa Site Information - Alexa has built an unparalleled database of information about sites that includes statistics, related links and more. All of this information can be found on Alexa's Site Overview pages, Traffic Detail pages and Related Links pages. To access these pages, simply type the URL of any site into the Alexa Search box.
In addition to the features mentioned above, Alexa also has Movers & Shakers (sites jumping in traffic) Hot Searches (what people search for) and lists of Top Sites in available by language or categories.
Webmaster Services
Alexa has created a series of tools specifically for web site owners. These tools can help to drive traffic, make money, find broken links and more! Go to Webmaster Services.
Alexa Web Information Service
In November 2005, Alexa released Alexa Web Information Service V 1.0 on the Amazon.com Web Services platform. Gain access to Alexa's processed information about the Web, including traffic details, related links and more. Alexa Web Information Service.
