Amazon is shutting down Alexa.com – it’s global website ranking system – after 25 years of service.
The system, unrelated to the firm’s voice assistant, has been monitoring traffic online to list the most popular websites around the globe since 1996.
Amazon announced Thursday that Alexa.com will cease to be available starting May 1, 2022. That will be its 26th anniversary.
Although the company, founded by Jeff Bezos, did not specify why, Alexa.com has seen a decline in popularity over the years. It seems that most web owners don’t care about how Amazon ranks their websites.
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Amazon is shutting down Alexa.com – it’s global website ranking system – after 25 years of service. The system, unrelated to the firm’s voice assistant, has been monitoring traffic online to list the most popular websites around the globe since 1996
Amazon.com’s Alexa.com (or Alexa Internet) offers the world’s best website ranking system. Paid subscriptions also include a suite of SEO analysis and competitor analysis tools.
On December 8, Alexa.com stopped accepting new subscribers. However, existing customers may still use their accounts until then.
Alexa.com (Alexa Internet) has many of the same functions as Google Analytics, and utilizes the technology to monitor the site’s performance.
You can use it to monitor the performances of your competitors.
The news comes just two days after all of Amazon’s services crashed and took several websites with it. At 10:40 ET, the outage began and was sustained for over seven hours.
This website provides data on web traffic, rankings worldwide, as well information on more than 30 million sites.
Alexa.com ‘samples millions of Internet users using one of many different browser extensions,’ the website reads.
‘Our global traffic rank is a measure of how a website is doing relative to all other sites on the web over the past 3 months,’ Alexa.com’s website reads.
‘The rank is calculated using a proprietary methodology that combines a site’s estimated average of daily unique visitors and its estimated number of pageviews over the past 3 months.
‘We provide a similar country-specific ranking, which is a measurement of how a website ranks in a particular country relative to other sites over the past month.’
The news comes just two days after all of Amazon’s services crashed and took several websites with it.
It began at 10:40 ET on December 7th and continued for seven hours worldwide.
All of the platforms, Prime Video, Amazon Music, Amazon Music, Amazon Web Services, and Alexa, Ring, as well as Amazon Music, Prime Video, Amazon Music, and Amazon Prime Video, have been shut down.
Amazon Web Services are also used on hundreds of other websites.
According to The Verge, warehouse workers claimed that Amazon temporarily closed down entire facilities and uploaded photos to Reddit showing automated shelves still in motion.
Amazon employees reported systems outages across the country, from New York to New Jersey, Pennsylvania to Texas and Georgia to Georgia.
However, most platforms were restored to service by 8 p.m. ET.