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How to find out the number of visitors to other people website

by addykho
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Just wonder how do you normally find out the traffic or number of visitors to other people website? The reason I ask is that I want to verify what other people claim about the traffic volume to their websites is true.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nedie
    Hello addykho,

    I usually use cubestat.com or websiteoutlook.com.

    They are my prefered one.
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    • Profile picture of the author addykho
      Originally Posted by Nedie View Post

      Hello addykho,

      I usually use cubestat.com or websiteoutlook.com.

      They are my prefered one.
      Seems like they both giving different results. And I check my own site using these 2, and they are different from my google analytic results.
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      • Profile picture of the author Sandgrown
        You can't obtain reliable traffic stats because the data is private.

        Both those sites use Alexa for estimating traffic but Alexa's data only comes from people who have their toolbar installed ie a small subset of internet users. Alexa rankings can also be very easily spoofed and should be taken with a pinch of salt.

        If your question refers to doing due diligence on a site you are looking to buy then you'll need to ask them for a copy of their server stats or google analytics / statcounter stats. Preferably a source which discloses IP addresses, user agents, the time of browsing and whether javascript was enabled or not (so you can search for signs of spoofing). Then as a final check compare it to Alexa's data to see if there is any consistency.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nedie
    That's an estimation as I think any website calculator can exactly give the number of visits/day.

    Did you try to update data ?
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  • Profile picture of the author alextuder
    Originally Posted by addykho View Post

    Just wonder how do you normally find out the traffic or number of visitors to other people website? The reason I ask is that I want to verify what other people claim about the traffic volume to their websites is true.
    I don't think (at least in my knowledge) there is no such tool which can help u in finding traffic or number of visitors.
    The best you can do is check their SERP's for their major k/w's. Yes, people can inflate their (i.e making 20 to 22) data but not up to an exorbitant amount.
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  • Profile picture of the author diyakapoor
    I don't think so that there is any such tool that will give you exact number of visits of others' websites. For some traffic comparisons like traffic through keywords, traffic from countries you can use alexa tool.
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  • Profile picture of the author IndigoJack
    I don't believe the tool you are looking for exists because the information is not publicly accessible.

    Any tools that are out there will be giving you an estimate based on their ranking position, inbound links etc.

    If it is a company you want to do business with ask for a print out of their results.

    But anywho, high traffic does not necessarily mean good traffic. So even if they do get a gazillion visits a day they may not be worth a punt.
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    • Profile picture of the author alextuder
      Originally Posted by IndigoJack View Post


      high traffic does not necessarily mean good traffic. So even if they do get a gazillion visits a day they may not be worth a punt.
      Worth a million dollar quote. Always keep your targets in your mind.
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    • Profile picture of the author selfdisciplineacademy
      Originally Posted by IndigoJack View Post

      I don't believe the tool you are looking for exists because the information is not publicly accessible.

      Any tools that are out there will be giving you an estimate based on their ranking position, inbound links etc.

      If it is a company you want to do business with ask for a print out of their results.

      But anywho, high traffic does not necessarily mean good traffic. So even if they do get a gazillion visits a day they may not be worth a punt.
      True, it's also about quality.

      Some services (Like FOLLOW) can actually show you the traffic source.

      Traffic source, as probably a much more helpful metric
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  • Profile picture of the author Wolster
    You might also want to check out compete.com, but I agree with Sandgrown, you can only really get rough estimates unless you ask for proof of stats.
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  • Profile picture of the author willyboy104
    I'd say they are alll inaccurate, however the one I use most is Google Add Planner - they have a very useful tool, search it on Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author homemodifications
    u must have analitc account id pass for that website...otherwise if they are showing hitcounter publicly on thair site .
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  • Profile picture of the author Ahead-DESIGN
    You never get similar results, I even use different trackers on my own WP sites and get different results, certainly different from analytics.
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  • Profile picture of the author anthonyrude
    I use cubestat.com but it doesn't give accurate google link metrics.

    Most the time is says zero for anything google related except that is not the case.

    check out this cool tool for site metrics

    Open Site Explorer: Link Popularity & Backlink Analysis Tool

    i really like how it gives you the number total sites that link to that site.

    I like yahoo site explorer but you can get thousands of backlinks listed and they can
    be coming from the same site. this skews the numbers i believe as it's important to have links coming from unique ip's.

    Let me know what you think.
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  • Profile picture of the author Intrepreneur
    Compete | Compete and Quantcast - Home are the only reliable ones.
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  • Profile picture of the author E. Brian Rose
    Every time that I have tried one of those tools, I have asked it to estimate traffic on a site that I own. It was always way off the mark - their guess was either extremely low or extremely high.
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  • Profile picture of the author pianochris
    Alexa give a rough estimate. Not exact but rough details. In addition, the source code can provide some good information about meta tags and keywords.
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  • Profile picture of the author MalaMalas
    from google do a search for "website traffic estimater" and input their url.
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  • Profile picture of the author selfdisciplineacademy
    The best thing to do would be to use 3 - 5 of these services...

    and then average them out, to get an average amount..

    I recommend..

    WebsiteOutlook.com
    trafficestimate.com
    statshow.com/

    Test these, and others (And get averages )
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  • Profile picture of the author selfdisciplineacademy
    Also, there is a great service..

    Called Follow

    Go to Follow.net

    It's been very reliable with the estimates for me.

    Test it out
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  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    What ever tools you try to use, they will never give you accurate stats.

    If you want to know the exact numbers, only the website owner will know that.

    Even if you do try to find out the exact numbers, the person who sells you that they are getting a lot of traffic may even get bogus traffic just to show they they have a lot of traffic coming in.

    There are services out there which you can get 10,000-30,000 "robot" visitors to your site. This type of traffic is not real.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael J Anthony
    You can try quantcast to get estimates as well, if the data is even reported there.
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  • Profile picture of the author affiliolabs
    Agreed. The Paid Version Of Alexa is your best bet. Also will give you some traffic demographics to see where there visitors are coming from
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  • Profile picture of the author imi1233
    statshow.com should help
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  • Profile picture of the author icoachu
    Beware of Alexa Site info data....

    It can easily be faked.

    In fact, Alexa 'boosting' services is a common blackhat service.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrew Miller
    Well, here (Alexa Rank ? A Thorough Examination :: netberry.co.uk) is described a way to make a traffic estimation based on the alexa rank. Basically, the author has offered an exponential function, not linear or polynomial.


    There is also a web service which aggregated alexa ranks + real data and made the calculations. (Google rank2traffic)


    I checked it, and for 80% of the websites the results are very satisfying. Still, there is 20% of (possibly, manipulated by webmasters) incorrect data (the estimated traffic is much higher than in reality)
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