Mike Arrington says Alexa is useless, because Alexa stats show YouTube is bigger than Google. Here’s the graph to prove two things (click to see full size):

Now, we all have a grudge with Alexa, but I’m going to be rational for a second. He’s comparing the “Page Views” stat of the two sites. Alexa’s page view stats refers to the amount of pages loaded on the internet that day belong to the respective site. Google and it’s own blood, Youtube, are around 3% of daily page loads.

But this means that YouTube has more page loads a day than Google! This can’t be true!

It is true, and I’ll tell you why. YT averages in the high 12’s in page views per user, and Google the low 1’s. You want to compare their popularity? Look at the reach stat. It clearly shows you who’s on top.

Alexa is not useless, it’s just the mildly useless kid that everyone beat up in middle school. Turns out it has some use, and the bullies were… jumping to conclusions. The two things this graph answers: Mike jumped a little on a misconstrued stat and Alexa has some meaning. Some

TechCrunch is obviously not useless as I question in the title, but the hard edge is showing a little more in their writing. Objective news, plzkthx.