Sparky: The Alexa Toolbar for Firefox released
Alexa have been one of the the major source for getting information on web traffic for any website. Alexa simply collects data from the users that have installed Alexa toolbar on their PC. But, Alexa Toolbar was only available for IE and it's statistics were incomplete without any web traffic collection from the large Firefox community. But not any more, Alexa recently released their Alexa Toolbar for firefox under the name "Sparky".
The Sparky isn't that much sparky as an Alexa toolbar as it was for IE. The sparky just adds a new menu in your browser under the name "Related Links" and a status bar on the right hand bottom of the Firefox that displays you three Alexa stats i.e.
- Traffic Trends
- Reach Meter
- Traffic Rank
On clicking the traffic stats, a menu opens up where you can find quick links to the site overview, traffic details and Related Links. But in my view it would have been a much better option if they had tried to make it an expanded status bar with all these features just one click away.
Sparky is compatible with all the Firefox v 2.0 and higher. It is compatible with the newly released Firefox 2.0.0.5.
You can download Sparky - The Alexa toolbar for firefox from the Alexa Download Page
