Alexa seems to be having math trouble

Fri Sep 5 01:37:35 GMT 2003 Alexa seems to be having math trouble

Last week I noticed that Alexa was reporting my 1 week averag somewhere up in the 500,000 area. That was pretty strange, since my 3 month average was around 82,000, and no day in the previous week had been above 70,000 or so. I checked a few other sites, and noticed similar figures: sites who would definitely be in the tens of thousands had 1 week averages around ten times what they should have been. I wrote to Alexa support about it, and when I checked this morning, everything looked right again.

But just now i took another peek, and my 3 month average has jumped into the 1 million area.. obviously impossible, but there it is. Alexa must be really screwed up somewhere..

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