What is considered an average number of unique visitors

[everlast]

Hello, Is there an industry standard for the number of unique visitors site recieve? I know it is industry dependent and if your sales are great then whatever you have is good, but just looking for a chart or graph that would show x number of sites achieve y number of unique visitors a day, month.

[webmastertexas]

Alexa has a ranking system for almost every site with any decent traffic. Check the site info with them to get all the traffic info you want.

[Artstart]

Alexa is very inacurate, it olny shows traffic for pages that were accessed through it, or have their counter.

[everlast]

I have a unique visitor counter. I was just wondering how many visitors is considered high 10,000? 1000? 100 etc.

[phantombookman]

I must depend greatly on the area you are in I would imagine.
30 uniques a day per site is a decent day, this sounds terrible compared to most here yet one site which get 10-15 a day gives me a living.

One site I control gets between 0-5 a day and generates over £100,000 in sales per annum.

For me the type and intention of visitor is much more important than the number, that said I don't use ads etc.
Hope this gives a little hope to all those in niche areas who don't get 1,000's of hits a day but dare not mention it
Regards
Rod

[topr8]

unfortunately its an impossible question, for a start even within a particular niche there may be pro sites that are only a few pages yet others that are 10,000's of pages (and that discounts the homepages on the topic)

additionally where you rank for your group of keywords is everything, but also the amount of traffic a particular sector may attract varies a lot, you may be chasing a share of a million hits a day or a share of 20 hits a day.

i think you should look to improve your own traffic and not worry about competing with the average...

but in answer to your question, you can buy the kind of information you are looking for i believe, but it is extremely expensive.

[webmastertexas]

What's your industry?

[everlast]

Thanks for all of the replies.

"i think you should look to improve your own traffic and not worry about competing with the average... "

I'm working on that. I was just curious if there were any charts, but it does seem to really be industry specific and product specific.

Antiques is the area.

[topr8]

antiques is relatively low traffic.

[PatrickDeese]

Some of the "hit counters" have referral stats for the users of their service available to the general public.

A few have breakdowns by industry.

[everlast]

I'll take a look a round and see if I can find anything on the counter sites.