Alexa Internet, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, has launched the Alexa Top Sites web service on the Amazon Web Services web site. The Alexa Top Sites web service provides software and web developers with programmatic access to lists of web sites ordered by Alexa Traffic Rank, which represents one of the largest samples of Internet usage available. This data can be used by developers for a wide-range of products and services like prioritizing aggregated information on a web site and building products that help businesses make decisions such as where to most effectively advertise.
"Alexa is constantly looking at the enormous amount of information we collect about the web to find sets of data that we believe will help developers build products for the customers they already have or want to have in the future," said Alexa Product Manager Geoff Mack. "The new Alexa Top Sites web service is the latest result of this effort. Developers can now build web applications and products using one of the world's most credible samples of web usage. We can't wait to see what developers build with this data."
