How much traffic is your competitor getting? Here's how to find out!

by GFox
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These sites may be know to others here, but I just found out about them recently and they have been extremely helpful in providing valuable analytics on my competition. I like this one, but this one also gives a wealth of info too. Hope this helps.
#analytics #competitor #find #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    I've considered signing up for compete.com in the past. I would love to know if anyone has tried it and liked it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Carl Kelly
    Ha! I just checked one of my almost completely unpromoted sites which gets virtually no traffic whatsoever and Quantcast says it gets 10,000 visitors a month. Not very helpful information.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Carl Kelly
      Originally Posted by GFox View Post

      Interesting. How did compete (dot) com compare?
      Just checked Compete. It was only HALF as bad as Quantcast. It estimated that particular site got close to 5k visitors in April. It actually got about 250 visitors, so it was only off by about 2000%, which is better than Quantcast's estimates, which were off by about 4000%.
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      • Profile picture of the author juliana
        I will give it a try.Is it always updated?
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  • Profile picture of the author robcole
    It didnt have any of my sites that are 6 months old :-(
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    • Profile picture of the author Jackbgd
      I tried it myself - they say my website had 3 times less visitors then it actually had ... nothing more to say about it. I think the best tool for researching is Samurair Market or Keyword Samurai - they've changed the name...
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  • Profile picture of the author Richard N Adams
    The two tools mentioned aren't great, but they are particularly bad for low traffic sites.

    All the best,
    Richard
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  • Profile picture of the author indigo
    What about alexa(dot)com ?
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Carl Kelly
      Originally Posted by indigo View Post

      What about alexa(dot)com ?
      Very little value there. No tool that is external to an actual competitor's Web server itself is going to give completely accurate stats about their traffic -- not even something like Google Analytics.

      Only consider your competitor's traffic volumes in an overall sense, trying to pin it down to actual numbers isn't as fruitful as just working on beating them in your market.

      Besides, traffic doesn't equal conversions or sales or revenue.
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  • Profile picture of the author garyk1968
    These sites rely on the fact the host website has their script on, in the case of quantcast alot of sites I wanted to look at weren't available. Not much use if you ask me.
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    Thanks for the feedback. Based on the responses it sounds like Compete and Quantcast are NOT worith my time or money.
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    • Profile picture of the author kamilrazak
      yeah.. thanks for saving my time.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
    There is no traffic stats tool that can tell what someones traffic is without having direct access to the server logs. Since they do not have direct access to the server their stats are going to be wrong.. Some cases 100% wrong...

    They may give a rough estimate, but that is about as far as they can go...

    James
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