Alexa is still relatively young. Anyone who remembers Google when it was young will know that there are important lessons a burgeoning tech megacorp needs to learn through experience. Alexa didn’t have the natural growth that Google had. Alexa was pumped full of cash from the moment of its inception, taking advantage of the vast streams of data already flowing through Amazon’s website. As a result, Alexa still suffers from some glaring issues.nnOne of the most notable issues is that, as of the time of writing, it is still possible to write a little script to continually open your website and artificially inflate your pageview count. This is the kind of basic ‘hack’ that Google has long since inoculated itself against.