Is it possible to estimate a daily pageview # for any site?

Im trying manually with no success...

[millforme]

First off, I am new to this site and its my first post so go easy on me pls:) It is interesting to me that finding a daily pageview # for a site seems nearly impossible. I have been trying to figure this out with information provided by Alexa and a few other but just cant seem to make my numbers make sense. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[toplisek]

Pageviews are old way to to measure and old concept. It does mean 0.

[ken_b]

Are you trying to estimate the page views for a site you do not own or do not have access to log files/stats for?

If so, I think that's pretty hard to do with any accuracy. Unless a site were to provide some public stats, which some do in their "advertise here" sections.

[millforme]

Yes, for any given site. I am obviously not looking for an exact number but an estimate. I know Alexa, compete.com, and quantcast.com all have there methods of estimating it. example, Alexa has a "percent of global page views" for any site. (yahoo comes in at 2.2686%) Compete.com charges you $200 a month to get their daily pageview est info. Im no math wiz (as I cant figure this out) but Im sure you could figure out an estimate for free given the proper info. Anyone have any ideas?

[Dave_Hybrid]

Those services you mention have ways of collecting real data. Alexa use it's toolbar which is on a lot of PCs so it gets a fairly good idea and compete i think use the data collected from ISPs.

[Receptional]

I think Topsliek has a point. Measuring pageviews is not a good thing to track - for the same reason that buying ads on a CPM basis is not a good thing to do, unless you also have some concept of how engaged a user is on that page. I am no programmer, but even I can create a system that generates thousands on pageviews in an instant.

But now you have started, do you want to include when computers (like Google) look at the site as well as humnans? (Obviously, a computer ALWAYS sees the site when a human does, so "no" is not an option here, but you start to get the drift).

If you are asking because you are considering advertising there, you might want to ask the publisher to include your own tracking script on the page (Not Google analytics, that won't work) so that you can independently verify their claims.

Another "trick" might be if they have adsense on the site, to use the back end of Adsense to try and to a placement ad on the page/site and get some estimate that way. Probably a bit hit and miss though.

D.

[toplisek]

Hi
I understand now what you look.
You do not like to look at number but ratio in this case percentage.

When we talk about ratio or % we deal with divider value.
What would you like to compare?