Top all-time · #8172
SISTRIX
Company blog · sistrix.com/blogwebbusiness
SISTRIX is the company blog at sistrix.com, writing about web and business. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Analysis of Googles Farmer Update”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite SISTRIX posts as data sources on search click-through rates and Google update winners and losers. The comments link or cite the posts for facts and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
CHANGELOG New features and more data We’ve been developing SISTRIX continuously for over ten years. You can find the most recent feature updates in our changelog. The platform giants Google, Facebook and Amazon dominate the Internet. We have made it our business to ensure that companies of all sizes
Most-linked posts?
- Analysis of Googles Farmer Update2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-26
What Hacker News says?
Source: https://www.sistrix.com/blog/why-almost-everything-you-knew-... TLDR: on the second results page, each result gets <1% click through rate. So it‘s not nobody, but statistically speaking not very many.
Comment linking /blog/why-almost-everything-you-knew-about-google-ctr-is-no-longer-valid/
on “Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from thousands of sites”Submitted Panda Vol. II: Ehow.com got hit this time as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe sources I could find with a quick Google (yes, possibly ironic) search suggest news sites get most of their traffic from direct visits, but Google contributes a substantial amount[0]. It seems to me that the news sites want Google to provide them traffic and simultaneously pay for the privilege of doing so. The behavior of publishers in countries where they won this battle is telling: a when laws were passed in…
Comment linking /blog/new-data-is-google-or-facebook-the-main-traffic-source-for-publishers/
on “Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we know it”Submitted Analysis of Googles Farmer Update as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttp://www.sistrix.com/blog/985-google-farmer-update-quest-f... and http://searchengineland.com/who-lost-in-googles-farmer-algor... are other links I've seen. Bear in mind that much of this third-party analysis compares e.g. US queries vs. queries against Google from Canada, Italy, or India, and geolocation can change the results. Also, different people are running different sets of queries and that subsampling can…
Comment linking /blog/985-google-farmer-update-quest-for-quality.html
on “Which websites dropped the most in the latest Google algorithm change?”Submitted Google Is Rolling Out a Big Core Algorithm Update as a story · 3 points
HN discussion- nl · 2012-08-21
I know .edu's get a bump No they don't. While some insist that simply having a .edu domain, regardless of the site’s quality, content, and incoming links, will give you more weight with the major search engines, it’s just not true. Who says so? Matt Cutt, a top engineer at Google, in this video. [1][2] and Sadly this whole engagement is based on a faulty assumption: It is not the Edu-toplevel domain which gives univ…
Comment linking /blog/751-the-.edu-domain-myth.html
on “Beware cutesy two-letter TLDs for your domain name” Submitted Giphy.com’s Drop on Google – Things You Should Never Do as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloaking Case Study: Spotify Violates the Google Webmaster Guidelines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Google Evaluates Links Using the User Signals from Google Chrome Browser as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How well do you understand Google? – The Content Myth – SISTRIX as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
