{"id":136,"date":"2007-05-07T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2007-05-07T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T17:30:00","slug":"alexa-scrambles-traffic-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Alexa scrambles traffic data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s pretty interesting to see that Alexa is using CSS to scramble site traffic results. Now you cannot select, copy the data and paste into somewhere else because some random numbers are added between the original characters.<\/p>\n<p>The browser sees this:<\/p>\n<p><textarea name=\"code\" class=\"xml\"><br \/>\nadspeed.com &#8211; 96%<br \/>\nserv.adspeed.com &#8211; 4%<br \/>\n<\/textarea><\/p>\n<p>The code is actually this (if CSS is disabled)<\/p>\n<p><textarea name=\"code\" class=\"xml\"><br \/>\n2a80dspeed.co644m &#8211; 9196%<br \/>\n70serv.adsp1931eed.88com &#8211; 434%<br \/>\n<\/textarea><\/p>\n<p>I have not had time to dig deeper into this and it&#8217;s just an interesting observation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s pretty interesting to see that Alexa is using CSS to scramble site traffic results. Now you cannot select, copy the data and paste into somewhere else because some random numbers are added between the original characters. The browser sees this: adspeed.com &#8211; 96% serv.adspeed.com &#8211; 4% The code is actually this (if CSS is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}