Display your Alexa Traffic Rank with the Alexa Sparky Firefox Add-on

Personally, I love displaying useful information about my websites and having them in close proximity so I can keep a watchful eye on them. One of the more useful tools available is the Alexa Sparky add-on for Firefox which is an official extension that was created by the good folks sat Alexa and allows you to simply install this great addition with the click of a button and display your Alexa Traffic Rank data in your browser’s statusbar. It is a much more convenient way of keeping up to date with your website’s Alexa Rank than constantly having to have to zip back and forth from Alexa’s official website.

I’ve included a brief excerpt from the official Alexa Sparky web page which basically details what the add-on is all about, in a nutshell:

Sparky is a free FireFox browser plugin built by Alexa, that accompanies you as you surf, providing useful information about the sites you visit without interrupting your Web browsing. Learn about Website Traffic Trend information — Is this site getting more popular, or less popular?

Now, if the Alexa Sparky sounds intriguing enough for you so far to warrant a test drive, we can continue onwards to the installation part: To install Alexa Sparky, simply follow the link located towards the bottom of this article which will take you directly to the official home page of the plugin. From there, you need only click “Install Now” and Firefox will do the rest. How easy was that?

Here’s a screenshot of Alexa Sparky for Firefox in action taken while I was browsing around a few of the other sites under my network:

As you can see, after the add-on has been activated it creates a handy little preview of your current Alexa Rank statistics in numeric and graph form.

You can view the official Alexa Sparky add-on page which contains a full summary of the extension plus a download link over at Mozilla.org: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5362

I highly recommend it and I’m sure you will find it useful, too.

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