This site was also discovered recently by the blogger. It offers statistics on the most popularly trafficked websites, and can be viewed by country. As such it was thought that this source would be valuable in helping information professionals and librarians discover where users in their specific Caribbean country are going for information or spending their on-line time.
The information is from a commercial site and is also not an academic source for information. However it is still useful for evaluating and measuring in a general sense the Internet usage by Caribbean people.
Title: Top Sites by Country
Author/Publisher: Alexa Internet, Inc.
Affiliation: Amazon.com company
Publication Date: 1996-2008
URL: http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500
Abstract:
Provides a listing of the 500 most trafficked websites for developers and a brief description of each site.
(Abstract from the source "About the Alexa Traffic Rankings" ) :
"A listing of all sites on the Web, sorted by traffic...Alexa computes traffic rankings by analyzing the Web usage of millions of Alexa Toolbar users and data obtained from other, diverse traffic data sources. The information is sorted, sifted, anonymized, counted, and computed, until, finally, we get the traffic rankings shown in the Alexa service. "
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