IMHO... Unit 5302 is mostly wrong about point "a", but otherwise an amusing read.
Alexa has absolutely no way to accurately track visits to any web site, much less this one... As a whole, the traffic on MW has not fallen at all (beyond up and down typical trends during the months of the year already shown over time). Albeit the message board fell off over the summer, as it typically does, it is starting to pick back up. And, in fact, the number of membership registrations each week has been increasing since last month quite a bit. In addition, remember that there is a lot more to this site than just the message forums. So, forum activity does not indicate overall site traffic by any means.
My end point... I know what the traffic is here... It's logged, archived, tracked, and has nightly reports generated on it. The message forum software also can generate statistics, on demand, of registrations, posts, etc.. No other source outside our network has access, or can possible have, that information. If some outside site claims our traffic has drastically decreased... it's not accurate.
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