Web development, design, and site optimization

In running a blog you need to continually benchmark yourself. Whether you use one or many methods of doing so is not important as long as you are consistent with the tools that you use. Myself, I use AWStats, Google Analytics, and Alexa.com. Oh and recently I also added to the mix WebsiteGrader.com although this is more of a consolidation of things like Google Rank and Alexa rank just to name a few.

As of this post, my rank on Alexa is: 693,06262

That places dropthemike.com in the top 2.17 % of all websites.

What other useful information does Alexa provide me?

How about where my users are from:

Being Canadian I am surprised that Canada is listed only as the third most popular source country for visiting my site. I can also see my traffic rank within specific countries. Apparently Dropthemike.com is big in Tanzania :)