Benchmarks Update for September

There were 13 gainers, 16 losers in Alexa rank of key genealogy websites this past month. All Canadian-based sites, with the exception of canadianheadstones.com, declined in rank. The colour coding indicates in green those that have gained in rank, becoming more popular; in red are those that have declined. Changes of more than 10% in Alexa rank are bolded.

	30-Sep	31-Aug
familysearch.org	2,801	2,768
ancestry.com	493	499
ancestry.co.uk	4,604	4,746
ancestry.ca	17,597	17,505
myHeritage.com	4,371	4,240
findmypast.co.uk	15,536	15,912
findmypast.com	42,640	53,878
canadiana.ca	697,248	459,587
familytreedna.com	17,276	17,672
23andMe.com	9,518	9,050
isogg.org	214,471	228,388
genealogyintime.com	100,870	106,813
mocavo.com	42,802	37,500
eogn.com	83,060	80,132
lostcousins.com	245,050	229,928
britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk	95,098	95,931
newspapers.com	14,405	14,490
cyndislist.com	67,010	65,025
freebmd.org.uk	60,893	57,569
canadianheadstones.com	446,421	609,532
deceasedonline.com	462,799	502,360
bifhsgo.ca	3,569,788	2,217,161
qfhs.ca	5,128,542	2,855,959
ogs.on.	642,141	575,595
ngsgenealogy.org	356,400	359,631
americanancestors.org	106,248	106,717
scgsgenealogy.com	1,266,232	1,185,654
sog.org.uk	454,710	551,416
anglo-celtic-connections	271,081	269,091

The top rankings of all websites on Alexa are unchanged: Google.com, Facebook.com, Youtube.com, Baidu.com, Yahoo.com Amazon.com, Wikipedia.org, qq.com, Twitter.com, Google.co.in