How to view other sites' traffic

[peony]

Sometimes I want to see other websites' traffic(most of them are small sites ). Are there sites to provide such service?

[larryhatch]

Some sites will actually let their statistics be openly seen on the net.
I think that's goofy, and those are probably in the minority.
Try Googling for the name of the site plus common typical user-agents like
Google, Yahoo, the usual suspects.

Whenever I Google up a suspect robot or user agent, I see endless lists of
people's statistics. Seems nuts to me, but they might have a reason,
selling the site or whatever. - Larry

[EVOrange]

Peony, I know of one site that has a tool for checking stats. It shows low traffic for my site, but is helpful for comparison.
Sticky me and i will send you the url.

EVO

[bentho]

I find [alexa.com...] relly useful

[davidof]

Alexa is ok for sites that get a lot of traffic but is very inaccurate for the rest. www.a9.com will show you all of the Alexa info without installing their toolbar. Just installing toolbar and looking at your own site is enough to get it into the top 100,000.

[bentho]

Don’t Forget unless you actually get hold of the others sites logs (well the log files aren’t that accurate ether) No method will ever be accurate. But it’s not accuracy that you should be looking for. Rather use the data for market intelligence and don’t take it literally.

Also you can count the compare your top SE rankings to your competitions to get a good idea.

There are some really good white papers on finding out about competitors Search engine traffic and what to do with that data. You can sticky me for them.

Oh there is one more way. You can purchase the full blown Hitwise product for 40k+ (I would rather keep the money!) but the data from them is good.

"EVOrange" SM'ed me a really good online service to view other sites traffic Thanks A lot.

[peony]

I just need the rough data. Alexa's data is inaccurate for small sites. I known there is one site to provide such service for free. I lose it.Anyway, thanks for your help.

[tictoc]

Seems like there is something out there that you would have to pay for.. anyone know?

[cooldoug]

The Alexa toolbar gives some good info on a site.

[tictoc]

The Alexa toolbar gives some good info on a site.

I am not so sure what information about sites that Alexa gives. They seem innacurate with smaller traffic sites and do not give any specific information in terms of traffic.

I think something more detailed about sites that we monitor in the serps would help us out more even if we had to pay for it.

[Booger]

Is there is a way (feature ) we can use in IIS to track/log hits , ect.

[topr8]

unless you actually get hold of the others sites logs (well the log files aren’t that accurate ether) No method will ever be accurate.

1). yes exactly, unless you can actually download someone's log files then the info available is only a calculated guess of some kind - and the way this works is that the more traffic a site gets the more accurate the calculation will be, consiquently with a low traffic site the calculation can be wildly out.

2). well the log files aren’t that accurate either ... not so, log files are completely accurate! (given that occasionally people will deliberately fake user agents and so on - but the hits are still logged)

... however the actual analysis of log files is what is sometimes inaccurate due to the way the data is analysed.