5 Popular Tools to Track Websites’ Traffic
As a blogger or webmaster, you must have interests in the traffic of other websites. But is is almost impossible to get the information of the traffic accurately, especiapply for the websites of your competitors.
The good news is that there are some web traffic tracking tools that can tell you what you want to know. Of course, these are not web services for tracking traffic on your website. These websites basically estimate the traffic levels of other websites based on a number of publicly available factors.
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Alexa
Alexa is a popular web traffic tracking website and, nowadays, it is owned by Amazon. Although it involves a lot of clicking to get your results, it has proven to be useful. As you can see by the image, you have a lot of stats that you can browse through.
Biz Information is a great website as not only does it provide you with a graph of unique website visitors (from Compete) but it also tells you how much it is worth.
The other good thing about Biz Information is that it also tells you how many submissions it has in popular social networking websites such as Digg and Stumbleupon.
So do you think the owners of MUO will sell for that price? With nearly 100,000 subscribers, who knows?
Compete is another great website to see how many visitors go to a website. Compared with Alexa, Compete pay more attention to Web 2.0 apps in their ranking arithmetic. However, there are a lot of limitations if you do not have a pro account. But apart from that, you can save the graph as an image. Overall, if you want a nice graph of a website’s growth (or decline) Compete is a nice option.
From where I stand, Google AdPlanner should be your first choice to check out any stats about a particular website. As it is mainly for advertisers looking at website statistics to see if it is worthwhile to advertise on a particular site, this makes it a great option to get accurate and reliable data.
You have a few options to play with through Quantcast. You can change the graph to show by day, week, month and to select a range of dates to show from one week to all time. Another great thing about Quantcast is that it shows you the US demographics of visitors such as age, sex, income, children and education level. But I would think Google Adplanner would be better.
All in all, which is your choice among the five tools above? Have you used other more easily-used and reliable services?
April 5th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
Affiliate programs allow you to earn money from your site or blog’s content and traffic, allow you as well to become a sales person for another website’s product, service or content.
May 7th, 2011 at 9:27 am
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