About Forex On Top

Forex On Top was created to rank Forex specific websites based on traffic statistics. For those of you that don't know what Forex is, it is short for Foreign Exchange or Currency Trading. Initially, we ranked websites by using data provided by Alexa, a subsidiary of Amazon. Recently, we've also incorporated statistics from Compete. We weight Alexa and Compete equally so an algorithm is now used to a create a point system.

We've also recently added a 5-star AJAX review system for each listed site and will be adding a commenting system shortly.

Alexa's traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users over a rolling 3 month period. A site's ranking is based on a combined measure of reach and pageviews. Reach is determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site on a given day. Pageviews are the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site. However, multiple requests for the same URL on the same day by the same user are counted as a single pageview. The site with the highest combination of users and pageviews is ranked #1. Alexa's traffic rankings are for top level domains only (e.g. domain.com). We do not provide separate rankings for subpages within a domain (e.g. www.domain.com/subpage.html) or subdomains (e.g. subdomain.domain.com) unless we are able to automatically identify them as personal home pages or blogs, like those hosted on Geocities and Tripod. If a site is identified as a personal home page or blog, its traffic ranking will have an asterisk (*) next to it: Personal Page Avg. Traffic Rank: 3,456*. Personal pages are ranked on the same scale as a regular domain, so a personal page ranked 3,456* is the 3,456th most popular page among Alexa users.

For more information, go to http://www.alexa.com/site/help/

FOT (Forex On Top) use metrics provided by Compete.com to estimate the rankings of forex websites.

How are Compete metrics different compared to Alexa, comScore, Hitwise, Nielsen//NetRatings?

Compete estimates site traffic and engagement metrics based on the daily browsing activity of over 2,000,000 U.S. Internet users. Compete applies a rigorous normalization methodology, leveraging scientific multi-dimensional scaling (by age, income, gender and geography) to ensure metrics are representative of the U.S. Internet population. Compete members are recruited through multiple sources, including ISPs, the Compete Toolbar and additional opt-in panels to ensure a diverse distribution of user types and to facilitate de-biasing across the data sources.

How does Compete estimate site traffic and Internet rank?

Compete has developed a unique methodology created by experts in the fields of mathematics, statistics and the data sciences to aggregate, transform, enhance and normalize data in order to estimate U.S. Internet traffic.

Based on the daily web usage of more than two million members (and growing!) of the Compete community, Compete calculates and estimates total traffic and rank for nearly every site on the web. We use rigorous statistics to make sure our estimates balance demographic and connection factors that match the entire U.S. Internet population. Currently, we're calculating the number of people in the U.S. that visit any given Web site each month (international usage calculations are in development).

Compete online metrics are leveraged by some of the largest companies in the U.S. and often cited in publications like USA Today, Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

For more information, go to http://www.compete.com/help