[APCPress] APC.org site ranks near top 15,000 globally

[Karen Higgs]

APC.org site ranks near top 15,000 globally

GOA, India, July 25 2006 -- APC.org - the bilingual English-Spanish site 
of the Association for Progressive Communications - currently ranks 
15,260 in terms of traffic among sites globally rated by the alexa.com 
information service belonging to amazon.com

This means, the apc.org is ranked among the top 15,500 sites globally. 
"This is simply extraordinary for a .org site. In our field I think the 
only one doing better is EFF.org (the Electronics Frontier Foundation, a 
network aimed at "defending freedom in the digital world"), ranked at 
8,500," commented Daniel Pimienta of Funredes.org, an organisation that 
recently became an APC member.

Incidentally, the APC is ranked higher than a number of "heavy weight" 
sites such as ITU.int, UNDP.org, IDRC.ca and DevelopmentGateway.org.

Funredes.org is itself ranked around 237,000, says Pimienta, which is a 
"very good figure for a non-governmental organisation in that field 
[above many US-based non-profits with much more financial support and 
marketing capacity]".

Some like Pimienta argue that APC.org's score indicates that the impact 
of the website goes way beyond "civil society 'professionals' and that 
the multilingual (approach of the site) will boost the impact and 
enhance the figure".

“The mix of daily news production, frequently-updated training 
materials, papers on internet policy and our many technology projects 
digging out the questions of gender and the environment, probably help 
to boost the website to its actual level of popularity,” says APC’s 
information coordinator, Frederic Dubois.

A link on alexa.com to that wonderful tool called the 'WayBack machine' 
that archives earlier versions of websites, also takes you to a 1996 
version [1] of the APC.org site.

Alexa says that just under 1,000 sites, in all, link to apc.org [2], 
which range from giant search engine Google, to sitepoint.com, the free 
software foundry Sourceforge.net, Yahoo, answers.com and others.

Besides English and Spanish, APC.org is currently being redesigned into 
a four language website, bringing a full-fledged French and a limited 
Portuguese version in the fold -languages widely used in Africa and the 
Americas.

See http://alexa.com/data/details/main?q=apc.org&url=apc.org for the 
latest APC.org standing and details.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/19961219043901/http://www.apc.org/
[2] http://www.alexa.com/data/ds/linksin?q=link:apc.org/&url=apc.org