Please suggest me the best Tool for monitoring the Competitors Traffic

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Hello Everyone,

Just wondering if anyone has used any effective external tools for monitoring the competitor’s traffic? By using which, I can know the competitors' regular traffic without knowing their internal server logs and data. Need to know it soon. Please help me out by suggesting such tools.
Waiting for your help.


Thanks in advance!
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  • There is no way to get accurate traffic numbers of a website without having access to it.
  • Plus no real value in knowing.

    I suppose you could use Alexa Rank.

    Just focus on individual keywords, not entire websites - that's my current opinion subject to rapid change!
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    • Sorry, but Alexa Rank will not help you understand something (as it shows only people that actually have the toolbar INSTALLED! By the way, I don't know any tool to get such data, unless they use a visible (or invisible) third party web counter
  • Services like Hitwise, Compete and quite a few others claim to know the figures but in reality they're based on a sample and then extrapolated (mathematical term for "guessed") to provide you with a figure that you'll believe.

    But, as others have said, without access to the control panel or logs of the site in question you won't know for certain.

    Concentrate on things you can make a difference with.
  • Semrush is the best tool you can use. It isn't completely accurate, but it's very handy and gets the job done.
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    • How semrush can help me to monitor the competitor's traffic?I thought it's a tool for keyword research.
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      Alexa only shows traffic that runs their toolbars, plugins, etc...

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      Even on the traffic alexa is looking at, they're ball parking numbers & guessing because any site on the net will never have 100% traffic running alexa scripts. When only 0.10% of a sites traffic is running alexa scripts, that's going to be one lousy guesstimate for traffic volume.
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    • Go with the ahrefs, by using this you can check the backlinks of your competitor. With the help of backlinks you have monitor most of the part where from the traffic comes.
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  • I wouldn't waste my time on it but if you know enough other data you could plug the numbers into 80/20 Curve to estimate where a competitor sat and then get a traffic range for them.

    Better to spend your time on more productive stuff.
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      SpyFu is quite good, it even shows the ads your competitor uses for his PPC campaigns, but without a paid account you don't get to see too much.
  • You can check out quantcast.com

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    • Just remember that their stats (along with any similar providers) may not give you the whole picture - their explanation is here.
  • As others have pointed out there are no exact tools to help you with this, all of them are an estimate. Some buy their traffic data from ISPs, and others rely on third party tools for data.
  • Use SpyFu to get competitor info. Type their website into the search bar on SpyFu.com and when it returns the results page, you just click the "SEO and PPC clicks." It breaks them into traffic sources and lets you see changes in their traffic from month to month going back as much as 7 years (depending on how long they've been around).
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