Internet Traffic

Is there a website that reports on the internet traffic a website handles on a daily basis?

Originally Posted by Wonderboy Is there a website that reports on the internet traffic a website handles on a daily basis?

There is a website that provides estimated visits to a website in the previous 30 days: http://www.trafficestimate.com

For your response on my other inquiry too.

Any idea on how they derive their estimates? (e.g. do the websites whose traffic is estimated make an arrangement with traffic estimate to have their traffic monitored?)

Go to http://www.statcounter.com

When you sign up (it's free) you'll get your own account where you can set-up your a statistics database for all of your websites. You implant a code in each of your website's pages. Your statistics will then show a great deal of information--number of page views, number of unique visitors, each individual page each visitor looked at, where they came from, their geographic area, and much more. Statistics can be viewed in detail by individual visitor, total page views and unique visitors for the day, for the last week, 30 days or all-time.

Great information, it's free and it's easy to use.

Sorry for the broken response, but had to leave.

The above is if you are looking for your own stats.

If you're looking for someone else's:

There is traffic estimate and then there is Alexa:

http://www.alexa.com click on "traffic rankings"

Alexa tracks traffic in a little different manner. Instead of giving estimated number of visitors, it ranks sites by number of visitors and gives visit rates for all internet users. Also estimates where the site ranks for a number of countries.

Originally Posted by Wonderboy Any idea on how they derive their estimates? (e.g. do the websites whose traffic is estimated make an arrangement with traffic estimate to have their traffic monitored?)

I do not know how they derive their estimates but I doubt any arrangements have been made since you can type in the URL to any website.

Originally Posted by pmccord Alexa tracks traffic in a little different manner. Instead of giving estimated number of visitors, it ranks sites by number of visitors and gives visit rates for all internet users. Also estimates where the site ranks for a number of countries.

Alexa's traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users which is why so many webmasters say that the Alexa results are for entertainment purposes only. BTW, the results from TrafficEstimate are for entertainment purposes only too.

Originally Posted by SpeedRacer Alexa's traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users which is why so many webmasters say that the Alexa results are for entertainment purposes only.

What good is that if people don't install the toobar?

Originally Posted by Marcus What good is that if people don't install the toobar?

No good at all.

As far as Alexa traffic rankings go, your website could receive huge amounts of traffic but if the visitors to your website aren't Alexa toolbar users then your Alexa traffic rating is going to be in the toilet.

Many people don't understand this basic fact about Alexa traffic rankings.