As I mentioned recently, I discovered that Alexa doesn't just count hits on a site, but hits on separate pages within a site. That's what started my BrowseBot experiment, to see what effect viewing every page of a site had on the Alexa rank.
I check and log the rank every day to view the progress. Now I find that I'm getting a different rank depending on which page I view on the same site.
It's not a unique rank per page, but one of two rank figures comes up depending on the page.
There's no rational explanation for this. The pages are all in my own domain, and there's nothing strange about them.
The only possible reason I can think of is that there are several Alexa servers (very likely), and their databases don't always match. I suspect that with so many sites logged, they probably don't get the chance to synchronise their databases as often as they would like.
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