Update On The Completely Useless Alexa Rankings In The Stock Photo Industry

Does anyone remember the International Stock Imagery Association (ISIA), mentioned here and here? Gone with the wind. And so are the more or less significant Alexa rankings for some sites which report regularly about the incredible huge stock photo industry.

Although there are serious concerns if Alexa is a trustworthy tool to measure anything at all, it is remarkable that all sites obviously have lost readers, presumably due to the influence of seasonal factors (vacation time, world cup) and due to the fact that the mass hysteria to read all-you-can-eat about the micropayment stock photography phenomenon, born in February this year when Getty Images acquired iStockphoto, is over.

Alexa Ranking	12/22/05	02/06/06	03/20/06	05/12/06	05/16/06	09/05/06
Reporting Sites
Alan Meckler Blog	35,856	33,428	28,641	28,335	30,552	50,535
PDNOnline	42,880	56,310	46,472	46,556	47,968	58,171
StockPhotoTalk	244,344	120,218	70,007	58,481	59,685	138,525
Stockphoto.net	273,454	263,071	199,399	220,417	239,918	355,850
StockAsylum	339,339	190,601	135,622	140,380	143,284	313,759
Pickphoto	352,635	304,977	248,521	248,165	289,687	398,449
StockIndexOnline	419,655	246,728	345,884	1,166,140	1,025,040	5,937,156
Visuell	730,010	934,278	1,204,474	711,113	670,231	840,985
MacTribe	996,954	366,876	315,237	603,955	737,049	1,147,892
PhotoArchiveNews	1,046,183	820,790	626,780	588,316	621,401	916,571
Dimdump	1,494,425	689,586	687,485	1,008,775	1,176,881	4,216,258
Hyperbio.net	1,516,332	2,597,303	No Data	No Data	No Data	2,949,706
AboutTheImage	1,915,930	223,488	118,747	111,803	123,665	211,406
Orphan Works Blog	Not listed	Not listed	631,566	494,871	494,782	3,828,111
Footage.info	Not listed	Not listed	690,404	1,180,589	1,301,194	1,523,819
Stockphotographer	Not listed	Not listed	31,552	39,239	42,857	140,167
PhotoSource	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed	58,100	59,620	93,689
Amercian PHOTO*	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed	194,682	196,638	2,374,344

© 2005/2006 StockPhotoTalk Research Labs, a Hörni Productions company

*Alexa ranking for the old URL. American PHOTO now runs under the domain of

Popphoto (http://www.popphoto.com/americanphoto/)

with an Alexa ranking of 19,577. This is of course the ranking of Popphoto, not specifically of American PHOTO. The same goes for American PHOTO´s new group blog, State of the Art - it would have been pure fun to track down their real Alexa ranking.

Related:

• Alexa Tracks Your Life In Realtime (Alexa Traffic Rankings, Part V (May 16, 2006)

• Alexa Traffic Rankings, Part IV (May 12, 2006)

• Alexa Rankings, Part III: StockPhotographer.info Outstrips PDN Online, About The Image Outflanks The Stock Asylum (March 20, 2006)

• "Alexa Traffic Rankings In The Stock Photo Industry: The Fun Continues" (Feb. 06, 2006)

• "Google PageRank and Alexa Traffic Rank: Numbers And Figures" (Dec. 20, 2005)

• American PHOTO Introduces New Website Shortly, Enters Podcasting (March 28, 2006)