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10 Ways How To Track Site Traffic, Popularity, Statistics

By Dainis Graveris • January 12, 2009

title-statistics I know from myself people are obsessed with traffic, statistics, looking at other sites – tracking their stats and so on. And if there is enough demand, of course there are sites to satisfy You. I wanted to put those sites and tools in one list together, because at least for me this field was really unclear – I didn’t know what means Google Pagerank, Alexa, Compete, Technorati rankings and I could continue so on. I must say not always these stats are precise, but however they give at least overview, how popular the certain page is, how many visitors that sites gets – and if You compare those stats with Your site statistics, You can get pretty precise results then.

I also use several FireFox add-ons, so I don’t have to type and go to statistic related webpage to get the results, results actually came to me in this way, allowing me comfortably browse, explore and compare sites I visit. Now I am so used to live with these toolbars, I can’t imagine my browsing life without them.  And just a thought – can You imagine how useful in marketing is information about Your competitors?? I just love Internet world :) . Okay, now let’s get to the actual article.

I will start with actual FireFox plugins I use and later in order to the most popular and know traffic tracking sites. If You want to get a full list of SEO related Firefox plugins check out my other article – Popular Firefox Extensions for SEO masters.

1. SearchStatus

I couldn’t live without this useful plugin, which tracks Alexa, Compete ranking and Google LivePageRank. If You didn’t know Alexa and Compete sites are the most popular and trustworthy sites letting You track statistic about sites worldwide, compare them and so on. And who aren’t heard about popular Google ranking system, however if You don’t, check out Google official blog to find out more.

And yes, Alexa and Compete has it’s own Top and rating system, so that’s the number meaning, maybe I was silly, but I didn’t realize that at first, so I am pointing it out for You too.

You can download this add-on here.

searchstatus

2. Compete Toolbar + Compete Site

This site is very similar to Alexa, offering alternative or even better some really good site to compare ratings so You have more objective information. I use Compete always together with Alexa, however in compete my site is ranked much higher, so I think Alexa rating is more objective..or I don’t know, I am just critical against myself.

compete

And they offer also toolbar, it is second add-on I use regularly, it’s official Compete.com site toolbar, tracking also average people count visiting site. Maybe this information is not so precise, but when I compare those stats with my site, I can get actual overview, how many people are visiting other sites too – pretty great. There are many other features in this toolbar however, but I am not using them in my workflow however, but You can do Your own research, maybe some feature is useful for You.

compete-toolbar

You can download this add-on here.

3. Google Analytics

analytics

Yes, this is the best statistic site available I think and the most popular one too. Google Analytics tracks information from Your site so detailed, You can spend hours comparing and analyzing Your website stats. I am sure everybody are using Analytics service by now, however if You don’t use it – You should go to their site and take video tour, explaining You everything much better than I could.

4. Alexa

alexa

I mentioned this site before, but now detailed overview Alexa provides a wide range of statistics based on popularity rank, reach, speed and in-links. You can compare site statistics also up to 3 sites. And information is precise, because everybody participate in it with help of Alexa Toolbar. When You install Alexa toolbar You get very useful tool and also give Alexa back just by visiting pages and using toolbar. I really like this system, check out maybe You’ll find it useful too.

Get Alexa Toolbar here / Visit Homepage

5. Quarkbase

quarkbase

I heard from this site at the first from Nick from ResourcePile, and since then I always been using it.

Quarkbase is a free tool to find complete information about a website. It is a mashup of over 30 data sources and many algorithms gathering information from Internet on various topics like social popularity, traffic, associated people, etc. – and yes, really complete starting from digg, delicious, reddit links, technorati ratings until RSS readers, traffic stats. Just type in – website url and enjoy huge information amount in seconds!

6. QuantCast

QuantCast is powerful statistic gathering website with information to help web publishers understand clearly their audience, what sites they like after visiting Yours, very powerful. Also if you want to get precise information about Your site, You can become QuantCast Publisher and  add simple code snippet in Your website, to let quantcast track and show You detailed statistics.

quantcast-site

7. StatsAholic

statsaholic

If You are looking for simple and fast statistic, You should visit Statsaholic site, where fellows over there offer data and graphs, which are generously provided by Compete and Quantcast. Enter up to 3 domain names and compare.

8. PopUri.us

Also one simple and great site, just type in website address and get Google pagerank, alexa, compete, quantcast rank, technorati links, yahoo backlinks and more.

popuri

9. Website Grader

“Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.”

Every information piece about site is very useful giving You several SEO related advices, domain age, expiration, Google indexed pages, traffic rank, last google crawl date, also You can compare Your site with others and so on. Very useful, must know site.

website-garden

10. BuySellAds

Maybe some people will laugh, I added this site too, since it’s not generally related to statistic information gathering, but I see from my site details Est.Impressions are very precise there. And now many people use this service, so You can just click to Advertise Here button and see precise results of that site monthly unique visitors and also alexa, compete rank, Google pagerank, delicious bookmarks and so on.  I just love that little thing about unique visitors.

You can see my account details by clicking on the link as an example.

buysellads

I could continue, but I thought for statistics with these sites should be already more than enough. Enjoy the list to help You in marketing, SEO or just to satisfy Your curiosity about other site statistics.

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44 Responses to “ 10 Ways How To Track Site Traffic, Popularity, Statistics ”

  1. Dee Langdon - BloggerNewbie Jan 12th, 2009 at 21:32

    Woo! Thanks for all the stat software. I like to use a few to compare and check and balance!

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  2. Trond Jan 12th, 2009 at 22:02

    I have not tested everyone, but so far i’m in love with Google Analytics..!

  3. Dainis Graveris Jan 12th, 2009 at 23:24

    @Dee Langdon thanks for good words, use them well:))

    @Trond Google analytics is great tool for just Your site statistics, but I am talking about other ranking systems and how to compare and get to know Your competitors too.!

  4. nicholi@gmail.com Jan 12th, 2009 at 23:55

    These look like cool apps. I’ve never heard of most of them. As far as analytics, I’ve used Google for a while now. But now I am trying out the open source analytics software, piwik.

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  6. Dainis Graveris Jan 13th, 2009 at 00:39

    @Nicholi only one thing I think google analytics misses is heatmap :)

  7. joyoge designers' bookmark Jan 13th, 2009 at 01:13

    very useful tools thank you Dainis

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  8. Software Jan 13th, 2009 at 05:51

    Here’s another list on Web Analytics Tools:
    1. Piwik
    2. FireStats
    3. Snoop
    4. Yahoo! Web Analytics
    5. BBClone
    6. Woopra
    7. JAWStats
    8. 4Q
    9. MochiBot
    10. Grape Web Statistics

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  9. Raymond Selda Jan 13th, 2009 at 11:42

    Nice list. Woopra is also good.

  10. GDevelop Jan 13th, 2009 at 12:20

    Thanks for this collection to analytic sites.

    I will try out at least two new tools i didn’t know about:
    Quarkbase and Website Grader

  11. Dainis Graveris Jan 13th, 2009 at 13:20

    @Raymond I agree, I yesterday looked at that website too, but thought it somehow don’t belongs here, although pretty unique feature to get application on computer :)

    @GDevelop happy to help – even better if it’s useful! :)

    @Software thanks for share, very useful – however I have a little bit different article telling how to track other people statistics, but this list is very promising. I’ll check it out! :)

  12. Pastels Jan 13th, 2009 at 14:05

    Thanks for these links! they are jewels for the web people especially those that are curious and particular when it comes to stats.

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  13. Nakul Jan 14th, 2009 at 08:58

    @ Dainis Google Analytics does have option of heatmaps.. Didn’t tried the accuracy or usefulness, but it does have option.

  14. Pinny Cohen Jan 14th, 2009 at 21:44

    I find compete to be the most accurate out of the whole lot of them.

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  15. Thomas | Santhos Webdesign Jan 15th, 2009 at 00:30

    Veru usefull post! SearchStatus is a great tool which I didn’t know already but I’m now using it!

    You might wanna check out ‘Seo for Firefox’. Another great plugin which adds some useful information to the Google search results!

    Great post!

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  17. Hiren Modi Jan 21st, 2009 at 13:52

    wow ! it’s really good stuff u gave here.

    Thanx.

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  18. Hiren Modi Jan 21st, 2009 at 14:06

    wow really helpful stuff

    Thanx

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  20. Geoserv Jan 30th, 2009 at 19:42

    I’m another Google Analytics user, but it’s nice to know there are so many other options.

    Thanks.

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  21. Johnson Koh Feb 2nd, 2009 at 03:02

    I like this list. Thanks for sharing it Dainis :D

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  24. Jay Feb 6th, 2009 at 00:15

    Nice list

    Like Google Analytics, but what about Woopra? It’a also very good ;)

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  27. iDevelopThings Feb 9th, 2009 at 03:33

    Thanks for the post.. helpful!

  28. HirenModi Feb 12th, 2009 at 14:44

    Nice info thanks.

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  29. Big Slick Design Feb 12th, 2009 at 22:43

    I personally just use Google Analytics for all of my traffic purposes.

    I used to use Sitemeter but it just did not offer as much tools as google does.

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    Thanks, I’ve been looking high and low for this

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    I like the visual that is google….Proved to compare

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  35. coolguyz Mar 31st, 2009 at 12:16

    @ Dainis
    Thanks for the information.
    I will use Google Analytics, it is Very good. W’ll try Woopra..

  36. john milton Apr 2nd, 2009 at 10:28

    Hi..
    Nice list,I have been using Google analytic for all of my traffic purpose, But have nit used all of them mentioned in your article, would surely try out some of them mentioned.
    Anyways nice post.
    Thanks..
    John..

  37. raj Apr 15th, 2009 at 15:54

    very imp to all

  38. arbusb May 1st, 2009 at 17:47

    thanks for the list

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  39. Orissa News May 23rd, 2009 at 01:14

    Hey, Nice collection. One more powerful tool is backlinkwatch.com. This one include all the sites linking to your site with the page rank of each site.

  40. Dicky Jun 3rd, 2009 at 05:56

    I am using Google Analytics, Sitemeter and whoas.amung.us to track my visitors. Will only look into other tools once i have more articles and visitors. Thanks Dainix!

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  41. Jahangir Jun 11th, 2009 at 01:32

    I use only Google analytics and am very happy with it :)

    But thanks for sharing some great sites for traffic analysis.

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    Good tips

  43. berita ekonomi Jul 2nd, 2009 at 07:18

    great info,especially for quarkbase.i already tried it and it’s rock!!!
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  44. cool Jul 3rd, 2009 at 07:35

    Looks very interesting. Thanks for sharing..
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