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RichardF
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« on: May 29, 2007, 04:31:03 PM » |
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Here's a link to the Alexa Traffic Ranking for Kiva. It's an interesting way to see the ups and downs of Kiva.org website traffic. Some interesting events that might have affected Kiva traffic are listed below.
Kivapedia now includes many of these items at Kiva Timeline. Because this new location is a wiki, you can help expand it to your heart's desire!  And...because the pages are cross-linked, we still can discuss Kiva news and website traffic here. Is that cool or what?! 
 What is Reach?Reach measures the number of users. Reach is typically expressed as the percentage of all Internet users who visit a given site. So, for example, if a site like yahoo.com has a reach of 28%, this means that of all global Internet users measured by Alexa, 28% of them visit yahoo.com. Alexa's one-week and three-month average reach are measures of daily reach, averaged over the specified time period. The three-month change is determined by comparing a site's current reach with its values from three months ago. 2007 |
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Spartan
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« Reply To This #1 on: May 29, 2007, 07:31:52 PM » |
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Interesting.
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 "The greatest pain a man can suffer is to have knowledge of much & power over nothing" - Herodotus |
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RichardF
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« Reply To This #2 on: June 03, 2007, 07:58:10 AM » |
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Since the chart seems to be sticking around and it's updating itself day by day, I think it would be even more interesting if some of you Kiva historians out there would add a few words of wisdom to help the rest of us interpret this little Kiva "timeline." What's that first peak back in the last quarter of 2005 about, the "grand opening"? What about the three peaks in 2006 before the Frontline story. It looks like an interesting holiday gift sharing season for 2006-2007. What's been going on this spring? And when is that ABC News story coming out so we can watch a new peak in the making?! |
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chris
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« Reply To This #3 on: June 03, 2007, 09:45:35 AM » |
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Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in late 2006, which raised awareness of microlending in general. Also, the Frontline story was rebroadcast in early 2007. And there was that CNN story a few weeks ago.
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RichardF
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« Reply To This #4 on: June 03, 2007, 12:25:40 PM » |
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Thanks, Chris. Do you have an approximate date for the Frontline rebroadcast?
I moved this to "In The News" because it seems to fit better here. I'll add more items from this forum, Kiva and elsewhere as time goes by.
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« Reply To This #5 on: June 03, 2007, 02:28:36 PM » |
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The re-broadcast of the Frontline World segment was aired on Tuesday, April 10th.
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RichardF
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« Reply To This #6 on: June 03, 2007, 03:10:27 PM » |
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Thanks!  |
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RichardF
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« Reply To This #8 on: June 04, 2007, 07:00:38 AM » |
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I just think of it as a simple way to remember where I left my bookmarks (especially since I use more than one pc)...plus other folks can use them too, if they want.  |
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« Reply To This #9 on: June 05, 2007, 09:29:01 AM » |
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The 3/27/07 New York Times story is the hook that landed this fish.  |
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RichardF
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« Reply To This #10 on: June 05, 2007, 10:42:56 AM » |
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Yes, I see your blip splashing out of the water there! |
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RichardF
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« Reply To This #11 on: June 08, 2007, 05:19:27 PM » |
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Kivapedia now includes many of these items at Kiva Timeline. Because this new location is a wiki, you can help expand it to your heart's desire! And...because the pages are cross-linked, we still can discuss Kiva news and website traffic here. Is that cool or what?!
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« Reply To This #13 on: July 20, 2007, 12:33:08 PM » |
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Okay all you Kiva addicts... Hop aboard the Kiva Wayback Machine and see how Kiva looked in the past!   |
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« Reply To This #14 on: December 13, 2007, 01:49:41 PM » |
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I thought it might be interesting to compare Kiva's traffic growth with the growth (or otherwise) of person-to-person lending platform Prosper.com and eBay's new venture, MicroPlace.com. These Alexa graphs should continuously update. At the moment, it looks as though Kiva will draw level with and then overtake Prosper.com in terms of percentage daily reach to worldwide internet users sometime next year. It is almost level with Prosper already in terms of global traffic rank. The "reach" graph seems to show Prosper firmly established in a downtrend, which given the subprime crisis is not surprising - what the world does not need more of is junk loans. MicroPlace after a brief spike a few weeks ago when it launched under eBay's wing, seems to be creating not much of an impression at the moment.   this Alexa page is where the graphs come from. More info there about what reach and traffic rank mean. Looking at the national traffic rank analysis below the graph on that page, it's maybe interesting to note that the traffic rank of Kiva in the USA is pretty much equal to what it is in Norway, while Kiva's rank is highest in Canada. edit: although the graphs above worked OK when first posted, for some reason now they don't, so here is a screenshot of what the "reach" graph looked like on Dec 13th: |
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« Reply To This #15 on: December 17, 2007, 10:27:11 AM » |
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Thanks for updating and for taking the time, peter. Looks like Kiva is gaining ground... |
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