Benchmarks Update for October

There were 12 gainers, 17 losers in Alexa rank of key genealogy websites this past month. All genealogical society sites 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.

	31-Oct	30-Sep
familysearch.org	2,939	2,801
ancestry.com	505	493
ancestry.co.uk	4,459	4,604
ancestry.ca	16,816	17,597
myHeritage.com	4,527	4,371
findmypast.co.uk	15,752	15,536
findmypast.com	40,365	42,640
canadiana.ca	734,209	697,248
familytreedna.com	16,150	17,276
23andMe.com	9,377	9,518
isogg.org	214,345	214,471
genealogyintime.com	90,571	100,870
mocavo.com	45,060	42,802
eogn.com	82,723	83,060
lostcousins.com	236,480	245,050
britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk	95,917	95,098
newspapers.com	13,750	14,405
cyndislist.com	70,474	67,010
freebmd.org.uk	62,142	60,893
canadianheadstones.com	411,581	446,421
deceasedonline.com	468,136	462,799
bifhsgo.ca	4,829,974	3,569,788
qfhs.ca	5,348,171	5,128,542
ogs.on.ca	691,585	642,141
ngsgenealogy.org	364,585	356,400
americanancestors.org	114,387	106,248
scgsgenealogy.com	1,452,226	1,266,232
sog.org.uk	480,227	454,710
anglo-celtic-connections	288,239	271,081

Monitoring of the site for the Toronto Branch of OGS, at torontofamilyhistory.org, will begin next month, presently ranking 1,333,311.
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