Alexa is a web company analyzing websites based on its traffic. Traffic means the number of users in a web page and the page views generated by them. 


Traffic can be from various sources. It can be social media sites, search engines, directories and others. Alexa monitors all these sources using their special algorithm and generates a traffic report. Each website in the internet has an Alexa traffic rank page. The page shows keywords targeted to the site, type of users, page views, bounce rate, links, etc.  Advertising agencies and online marketing firms consider Alexa ranking as an important factor for deciding the potential of a website.

Alexa provides different types of widgets to display traffic ranks in websites. These widgets are said to have effects on improving the Alexa rank of a website in which they are installed. Furthermore, potential advertisers will get the quick idea of the web traffic in a website if they have Alexa widget installed. Here in this post, we will show you how to generate and install an Alexa’s traffic widget in a website/blog.

Here is the Alexa rank widget for  Techknowl.com.



Go to Alexa.com here . From the top tabs, select for site owners. Now click on the link  get traffic widgets from the top right section. Enter your domain name in the provided box and generate JavaScript based widget in the next step. Now copy and paste the code in the right section of the website where the widget has to be appeared.

Alexa traffic ranks are updated on three day basis. If you want to see live traffic, originating sources and incoming search terms, on a website in real-time, see this article.