How to check traffic

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sipak

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Sep 14, 2008

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Hi to all,
Can anyone tell me what is the best tool (the most reliable) to check the amount of traffic some website is getting.
I would like to confirm if a website who claims they getting couple millions unique visitors per month really gets it.

Thanks

 

xplicit

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Alexa.

Code:

http://www.alexa.com/

 

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sipak

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Thanks for your fast reply.
Judging from Alexa results, I am coming to conclusion that if the website is not in top 100.000 there is no way they can have 1mil + unique hits per month?
Is that correct?

 

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tcherokee

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Dec 11, 2008

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use quantcast, it will give u an estimate... if your site already has decent traffic

 

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woodstuck

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compete is another good checker...

 

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rajathe

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Feb 4, 2008

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Compete and google anlytics, site meter

 

xhpdx

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since he wants to check a site he doesn't own, google analytics cannot be used

 

oldenstylehats

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The Alexa data set is extremely biased and an unreliable metric. It is heavily weighted towards webmaster-related sites/communities/niches because they don't compensate for the increased number of toolbars being used by the visitors of those sites. It, like PageRank, was once a reasonable way to estimate the strength and draw of a website, but that was relatively long ago and far away.

 

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sipak

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Thanks guys,
it seems that both compete & quantcast are better than alexa for this purpose.
I have compared my stats with the results from these two and it looks quite close.