Tracking Web Traffic on Competitors Websites

Feb
10

How do I do it? Well there are a few free ways and a paid tool.

Alexa gives the rough ranking of a website's popularity. A couple downfalls are that Alexa is open to manipulation, it has limited distribution, and only appeals to certain web head type users. Alexa obtains this web traffic information free by tracking users of its toolbar and traffic in a few other locations.

Metrics Market has a free web traffic tool which is discussed in JimWorld forum post. I am uncertain where this data comes from, but many JimWorld members have stated that

  • It was extremely accurate.

  • If it was off, the ratio carried over within that industry.

Hitwise is a paid web traffic monitoring service which tracks over 25,000,000 web surfer's habits on over 450,000 websites. Hitwise obtains most of this web traffic data free by trading its organization as a product for access to the traffic of many ISPs.

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I checked my personal site that I put up less than a month ago. It stated I had 9200 visitor sessions in the last 30days. Popycock!

Hi CJ
without spending a bunch of money there are not many tools which are good at tracking web traffic on competitors websites. Its kinda uncool that this is the best that is out there, but perhaps your feedback will help spark others to want to make it...

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