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“Buy a List!” You have probably seen this link posted on Alexa's pages. This offering came about because we learned over the years that visitors to our website were interested in learning which sites were in a particular range of Traffic Rank according to our data. This Top Sites List has been a simple list of Alexa’s top-ranked websites from 1 to 10,000--or even 100,000 sites.

Over time, people began to request specific Alexa data for websites on the list beyond Traffic Rank. Could they acquire, for a targeted range of Traffic Rank, additional Alexa data such as Reach or Contact Info? Could they get a list of sites in Spanish, excluding any known by Alexa to contain Adult Content?

While we understood how our data could be useful to a range of researchers and Web professionals, creating lists of this type was labor- and resource-intensive for us. Further, while anyone could take the Top Sites List and use the Alexa website to get the additional data, this was impractical if done manually and challenged our bandwidth (and Terms of Use) if done programmatically.

Thus was born Alexa’s suite of Web Services. These gave developers and researchers programmatic access to Alexa’s data. With the Alexa Web Information Service, researchers could automate queries for our numerous data points on any number of URLs. Marketers could query our Alexa Top Sites Service for the most popular sites in a particular country.

“But,” we began to hear, “I don’t have enough programming experience to write the queries to your Web Services. Can’t I just get a customized list of the top sites in China, their Contact Info, and what they were ranked two years ago?”

Well, Alexa is now offering lists with more options! The lists are sorted by global Traffic Rank, or Rank in a particular country, city, or category (based on our Directory listing). Once you have identified your custom list of URLs, you can add more data for each URL. Examples of this extra data include the site's contact information, category, and even historical Alexa traffic going back to 2001. The entire list of extra data you can add to the custom order is:

Reach (current 3 month global average)
Page Views (current 3 month global average)
Historical Rank (for a specific day in the past 5 years)
Historical Reach (for a specific day in the past 5 years)
Historical Page Views (for a specific day in the past 5 years)
Rank by Country or City (current 3 month average)
Reach by Country or City (current 3 month average)
Page Views by Country or City (current 3 month average)
Contact Info
Category
Sites Linking In (how many)
Related Links (upto 11)
Speed of the site (based on average page load times)
Keywords related to the site
Adult Content flag (yes/no)
Language
Domains with similar registration info

Please visit our Custom Top Sites List page to place your order.