So you want to find out how much traffic your competitors get
Posted by owen | Filed under Events, how to
I thought I would use some actual data and compare it to the most popular traffic estimator tools and see what they came up with.
I took a range of data directly from two sites, this consists of the Total Unique visitors for the domain, Organic new visits and US only visits. As I don’t know how these tools work taking a range of data would be more likely to yield good results.
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US ONLY |
38,078 |
85,151 |
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TOTAL UNIQUE |
557,263 |
1,449,181 |
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ORGANIC NEW |
135,706 |
401,323 |
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www.trafficestimate.com |
231,800 |
415,200 |
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www.mydnstats.com |
39,344 |
70,250 |
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www.compete.com |
9,643 |
30,787 |
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www.alexa.com |
213 |
554,040 |
The results show a surprise winner in the form of mydnstats.com. Although all these guys do is just pull their data from compete and alexa rank the result is a surprisingly accurate match for US traffic, more accurate than the individual sites they pull the data from.
For total traffic trafficestimate.com seems to give a quick and handy guide to work from. This is a very clean and easy to use site that unlike mydnstats loads your data almost instantly. At the end of the day this is the one that I’d use, unless I was looking for specifically US only traffic levels.
Please feel free to use the comments section to add in your own stats for these sites and if you know any other traffic estimation sites why not throw them into the mix.
One Response to “So you want to find out how much traffic your competitors get”
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johnny Says:
November 5th, 2009 at 10:37 amHi! I’ve found another site valuation tool and it seems to provide competitive analysis for free. I’m talking about http://www.estimix.com .The estimation provided by estimix is the result of a complex analysis based on factors like: the age of the website, the demographic structure of the traffic, the countries where the website is popular and sources of the traffic.