Have a laugh at us…  (Update: the Alexa graph should display
correctly now)  … while I’ll be banging my head against the wall
for a while.  Today, the Italian Government officially rejected
a formal request for information from a gathering of
professionals and citizens who would like to understand why we
have spent a whopping 75M$ (yes, that’s millions) for italia.it,
our official national gateway for tourism, launched with a huge
fanfare a few months ago. I’m not surprised: it would be highly
embarrassing to explain why it took us the cost of a brand new
Boeing 737-800 to come up with such an abominable example of
poor web design, even poorer content and arguable usability.  I
have to say that every time the stupid Italian portal makes the
news, I have shivers down my spine and I feel the urge to grab a
pickax and start a revolt. Just consider how our beloved website
(blue) is faring on Alexa when compared to the national tourist
sites of Britain (red), France (yellow), Spain (green) and
Switzerland (black):