As Grok Prepares To Take it to the Next Level It's Time to See Where We Rank With Alexa - Granite Grok

As Grok Prepares To Take it to the Next Level It’s Time to See Where We Rank With Alexa

alexa traffic rankBefore we were hacked in April GraniteGrok climbed up the Alexa Rankings (for Online news or media sites in New Hampshire) to do battle with the top 5. The redirect did some damage to that, and we almost dropped out of the top ten.

That was not great, and we’ve written about the redirects that plagued readers, but some good has come out of it. We amped up the fundraising and our new Web site, which Skip lovingly refers to as Grok 3.0, is under construction. The new security is a lot better and we’ve got some very serious plans for this platform that will, yes literally, take us to the next level.

So what level are we on now? I asked Alexa’s ranking where we stood in the New Hampshire Political/News interwebs and here’s what I learned.

When I first started the challenge back in January, we were in 9th place on this list and the Keene Sentinel was the target.

Here are the numbers form January 2018

Site (Sorted by US Rank)  US Rank Global Rank
WMUR 4,778 30,102
Union leader 11,942 58,558
SeacoastOnline 21,743 95,792
Fosters.com 31,189 156,649
Concord Monitor 35,498 174,895
NH1 36,835 238,547
Keene Sentinel 53,356 244,142
Berlin Daily Sun 58,393 381,351
GraniteGrok 73,950 331,870
Laconia Daily Sun 75,159 422,105
Salem Observer 96,246 373,971
Manchester Ink Link 116,432 465,027
Nashua Telegraph 144,363 607,225
Live Free or Die Alliance 172,276 769,689

We overtook the Keene Sentinel and were ready to take a hard run at the Concord Monitor when Boom!

It’s been two months since then, and we’re battling back. We’ve improved a great deal since the weeks (coincidentally, right around my heart attack) and we are in the hunt again. The Nashua Telegraph is our “new” next target.

Site Name (Sorted by US Rank) US Rank Global Rank
WMUR 5,558 32,476
Union leader 11,385 62,792
SeacoastOnline 18,153 101,714
Fosters.com 26,840 151,994
Concord Monitor 32,809 157,386
Keene Sentinel 44,251 224,876
Conway Daily Sun 47,526 223,029
Nashua Telegraph 60,690 360,003
GraniteGrok 62,911 303,925
NH1 63,942 343,616
Salem Observer 68,455 393,307
Laconia Daily Sun 76,244 381,742
Manchester Ink Link 91,907 468,870
NH Journal 100,921 312,520

The Telegraph, Sentinel, and even the Conway Daily Sun have improved markedly in recent months, but we think we’ve got the right stuff to take them. Even though summer’s here and that tends to kick your traffic in the gut as people hang outside more and spend less time in front of a PC.

Yes, a more dynamic mobile experience is under discussion Grok readers, and we think that will make a difference. But we’ve got a lot more than that planned so keep checking in, clicking pages, writing comments, and we’ll do our best to be worthy of your attention.

And together we can overcome the traffic rankings of the liberal rags and beyond.

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