Do I have a misunderstanding of what machetes are, or is this really a machete? I thought machetes had much larger blades. The linked item looks like something you stab with rather than swing with.
How can you tell from that photo how large the blade is? There’s no scale given.
Assuming the opening for the handle is ~10cm (which is a minimum, really, the average male hand is just over 8cm wide and you want some leeway), that’s a 50cm blade. That’s actually at the long side for machetes.
It does have more of a kukri shape, but a kukri’s just a kind of machete with a particular cultural history, IMO.
If it was a stabber, it wouldn’t be so wide towards the end. That’s a good indication of a chopper - puts all the weight at the outside of the swing, for momentum.
I meant width relative to length as well as size of the blade relative to the handle (and the handle itself strikes me as rather odd)
Helpfully labeled with its manufacturer’s name in the article’s picture, another article calls it a Kopsis machete.
Kopsis/Kukri/Falcata are blades angled and weighted as hacking weapons rather than stabbing or slashing weapons.
Edit: guess you have to be fast around here, I got beat to the punch, twice.
It says right there in the sub heading how long it is: Blade measured at 48.3 centimetres
Good estimate. Under the main headline:
Cold Steel Kopis Machete, 97KPM18S:
Weight: 25.3 oz
Blade thickness: 2.8mm
Blade length: 19"
Handle: polypropylene, 7" long
Overall: 26"
Steel: 1055 carbon steel with black baked-on anti-rust matte finish
Sheath: Cor-ex sheath
The yellow police evidence marker (with the large “3” on it) has a scale on it.
You can read that?? I looked again and I still can’t read the little label. Guess your screen has much better resolution than mine. 
Oh, that’s from “Cold Steel”. Nice-looking machete! I have bought several items from that company. They make excellent knives, swords, axes, etc. I don’t think that this news item is good advertising for them, though…
Obviously it’s a non-traditional design. The shape of the blade and handle are unconventional, but it doesn’t look that our of line for a machete to me.
It’s not like machete is a technical designation.
Not on my tiny screen, it doesn’t
Pretty much everything about that design is terrible for stabbing…at least by a human. On top of what was already mentioned, to stab with that, you’d have to be holding it in a position the handle is not designed for, or moving your arm in a motion it’s not designed for.
Yep, non-tradicional, but it is still in that area where it can qualify as one, one seller does point also at the one in the OP as a kind of Machete:
I like the description of how it was and is more useful as a tool to work in the farm. Kinda like a “plowshare” that can be turned into a sword when the need arises.
If one wants more information contact Danny Trejo… 
Yeah, machetes in general are not optimized for stabbing but for hacking. And they hack real good … easy to take off your other hand if you are not careful.
Take your pick. (SFW)
Personally I’d call that a kopis, one type of single-edged sword Greek soldiers used way back when. It’s too big for a kukri even though the shapes are obviously similar (and probably cribbed from another, either via Alexander’s continental drive-by or possibly when the Muslims set up shop all across the area).
Whereas to me, while it may have a curved blade the defining characteristic of a machete is its straight back, like so. Another defining characteristic would be that Machete don’t text.
Yeah, it is definitely a kopis-style machete! Here is is in action :
And you just relieved my curiosity about the handle! Thank you! Yes, it should have been painfully obvious that the fingers go in the handle, not around it but for some reason that didn’t “click” with me.