Track Your Website Traffic With These Tools
One of the ways to measure a website's growth is by analysing it's traffic. The purpose of creating a website is to get people to see one's contents. A website that gets thousands of web visits a day cannot be compared to one that have just less than a hundred. As a website owner, one can also make some money by placing Ads on his/her website, and the price paid for these Ads is dependent on the Web traffic.
A website owner may want to find out the website traffic of his competitors too. This will let him know if he needs more publicity for his website. There are websites out there that can get such information for you. The data from some of these websites are dependable, or just to give you a fair guess of the traffic. Let us see some of the websites you can use to monitor your website traffic.
Alexa
It is the most used website for checking the traffic of other websites. Alexa ranking is based on the number of visitors of a website gets on an average. It also specifies the ranking of a website in the world in general and also according to the countries of the website visitors. Alexa also gives other information about the visitors, like the duration of time spent on the website, the sex of the visitor and so on.
Looking up Steemit on Alexa, shows it is currently 1,042 in the world, and 724 in United States. Shows most of the website visitors is from the US. Alexa offers a free 7-day trial, after that an amount would have to be paid to get stats for your blog.
SimilarWeb
This is another awesome website to get your traffic information. It shows global rank and country rank like Alexa. It also adds your rank in the particular niche you blog about. The site's ranking is dependent on the traffic the website's get, either daily or monthly. The source of the traffic is also mentioned, be it social media, or even search engine.
Traffic Estimate
This is another website that is quite similar to Alexa. Just as the name implies, it tells you the estimated amount of traffic your website gets. You do not need to be a guru to use to website, it's a good to go.
Quantcast
It shows the traffic of mainly big websites though, those leading in various niches. The traffic it says is quite accurate and dependable to an extent. You could try out the website and see for yourself.
Alexa, SimilarWeb, Traffic Estimate and Quantcast are websites you can use to easily track the traffic of your website. They are all easy to use. For a new blogger, you would need these to get started and estimate your website growth.
Thanks for reading :)
Super references! Here's another tip: Website report with Nibbler
It's not so much about traffic (Alexa is a part of it), but more about the general rating of a website.
I hope it will be helpful to some of you.
Steemit is doing great on Alexa's ranking
I am proposing a website designer for website project
Do you think traffic could well project my site on google?
Maybe 6 months from now Steemit will be on the Top 20!
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