Here are some of the very important questions you must know about website traffic estimator tools to check any website traffic for free in 2022 and beyond.
How can I monitor my website traffic?
The easiest way to check your own website traffic is to use Google Analytics. It is a free website traffic measurement software by Google that will provide you a lot of data including the number of visitors per month, percentage of new users, bounce rate, average session time, traffic channels, and more.
How do I increase my website traffic?
If you’re getting started, you can use Google Ads to get more organic visitors to your site. But if you’re looking for free website traffic channels, you can use techniques like search engine optimization, social media promotion, email marketing, and more to increase your website traffic.
What are the best tools to check website traffic free online?
The following are some of the best tools to check website traffic for free online in 2022 and beyond.
- Semrush (gives you accurate data)
- Alexa (free tool but widely popular to estimate the popularity of any site)
- SimilarWeb (a nice combination of both the above tools where you can also find demographics, user metrics, links and on).
Important note: One of the easiest ways to find accurate results of any website traffic is to through
Flippa! Just go to flippa and search your competitors websites on their search box, if they are selling their sites on Flippa, you will get their Google Analytics reports in PDF format. Basically these are the accurate results so that you can easily find out how many monthly visits they are getting, what keywords are bringing them top search results and what’s their bounce rates. So why not try your luck? Check out if their sites are listed on Flippa to find out their website traffic for free.
What is the best way to track visitors to my website?
So far we mostly covered how you can check traffic of your competitors websites but what if you want to track visitors of your own site? Is there any best way to track visitors of your own website? If you want to get detailed insights of your own website, we recommend you to check out the following tools as they all are excellent in website tracking.
- Google Analytics
- Crazy Egg
- Clicky
- Optimizely
- Semrush
We highly recommend you to start using Google Analytics (it gives you a tracking code that you can install within your website) if you want to know accurate results of your site. By using Google analytics, you get access to the following things.
- Number of users (Sessions)
- Time spent on the site (Avg. Session Duration)
- The average number of pages viewed (Pages/Sessions)
- Bounce rate (100% – the user went to one page and closed the site)
- Your top performing pages and the list goes on
How do I find out how much my website is worth?
You can use tools like SitePrice, Site Worth Traffic, Webuka etc to easily find how much worth a website is in terms of money. Remember that, the website worth is only helpful to know a website’s value but it doesn’t mean you can sell that website for that price (in some cases, even for new sites, some of these tools show millions dollars of worth!).
What are the best SimilarWeb alternative tools online?
If you’re looking for the best SimilarWeb alternative online, we recommend you the following;
- Semrush
- Ahrefs
- Moz
- Also check out these best free SEO tools which are all great alternatives to SimilarWeb
What are the best website traffic generator tools? Are they any good?
Website traffic generator tools, website traffic booster bots, traffic generator bots etc are all allow you to generate random traffic using bots.
Here are some of the best website traffic generator tools;
If you want to build a profitable blog that makes money, you should avoid such website traffic generator tools because you need to bring traffic organically and not by using any of such traffic generating bots and definitely they are of no use.
How accurate are website traffic estimators?
That’s a fantastic question if you’re too keen in using website traffic estimators to check website traffic for free. Most of the traffic estimator tools don’t provide you accurate data (especially the free ones).
Do you know why? They simply don’t invest more time or money in indexing the pages of a website (throughout the web) or updating their databases with latest information. Here’s where premium tools like Semrush, Ahrefs come into play by providing as much accurate information as possible.
In a nutshell, free website traffic estimation tools only give you an idea about how much approximate traffic a site gives (it’s not accurate information) whereas paid tools like Semrush give you accurate data because of their largest and regularly updated databases.
How to find demographics of a website?
If you’re a website traffic junkie like us, you’ll definitely not be satisfied only by knowing the traffic of a website and you’ll go beyond that by finding demographics of a site. If you’re wondering about how to find demographics (statistical data relating to the population of a region or country) of a website, here are few tools that will help you.
- Semrush
- Ahrefs
- Alexa and
- SimilarWeb
Both Alexa and SimilarWeb give you free access to check demographics of any site. The rest mentioned tools i.e Semrush and Ahrefs are premium tools but give you much more accurate information.
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Thanks for your helpful post.
But I’am little confusion between the Similar web and Alexa , because there we find a great difference for Alexa ranking.
pls, tell me something about it.
Alexa ranking is not a proper measurement. You should know one important thing that Alexa ranking is not an accurate way of measuring traffic, backlinks to your site or analyzing your keywords. It’s NOT going to help you with any of traffic stats or analysing a site, it’s only useful to give an idea about how popular a site is. Whether you know it or not, Alexa shows you the number of sites that are linking to your website, so if you want to improve alexa ranking, get more links. Here’s a great post for you: https://bloggerspassion.com/how-to-improve-alexa-ranking-for-your-blog-dramatically/
Awesome post Anil!
I know only Alexa and Google keyword planner but unaware of other 3 resources to find traffic to a website.
You always share some remarkable stuff, keep doing it for us.
There are a few more tools added now and this post is constantly getting updated with working and new tools for finding traffic of a site Nirmala. Thanks for stopping by: you might want to check out this post: https://bloggerspassion.com/best-link-building-tools/
I think I am not understanding this, does google ad planner gives traffic meaning visitors to some particular website? Meaning the number if visitors to that site in a month or week etc. google gives cookies – is it anywhere related to the number of visitors per month or week or year?
I’ll make it clear for you: Google Ads Keyword Planner is a free keyword research tool provided by Google that allows you to find the right keywords to target for display ads, search ads, video ads and app ads, using Ads planner, you’ll only get an estimate of your own traffic stats, you can’t find other people’s site information. The above tools are helpful for finding traffic of any site.
Hello Anil,
I doubt whether Alexa can be used to determine how successful a blog is as far traffic is concern. Alexa ranking is something which can be manipulated.
Exactly, and that’s what I’ve been saying to all the commenters who are using Alexa for traffic estimation, it doesn’t provide you accurate results and yes as you said, it can be easily manipulated: https://bloggerspassion.com/how-to-improve-alexa-ranking-for-your-blog-dramatically/ (you can go through this post to know more about it). Thanks for stopping by.
Abhijit Compete.com is working fine. I would recommend you try Compete.com for popular websites only. Please let me know in case you still find any problem in using it. You can give a try to Similarweb.com.
Hi Anil,
I don’t think without tracking code isntalled(like statcounter, google analytics) any tool can tell you correct traffic figure.
Atish no doubt without tracking code, we cannot get the correct traffic details about any website. But we have to rely on Similar Web kind of websites when we want to make judgement about our competitor websites traffic sources. Atish when you go to similarweb.com website, you will have some idea about traffic breakup for any popular website like their top organic and paid keywords, monthly visits and top referring websites etc.
But I think All website do not show accurate statistics of any website or blog because whenever I search I always show wrong info. It say by site is earning estimated 5$ per day but I do not earn even a penny…
haha, that’s true. Most of these sites that provide you estimate earnings (my site is earnings millions every day according to them) are only for your personal satisfaction. They are not going to be useful for anything else, you should better avoid checking those sites.
Performance data of my website is always important for me. I can make content creation plan more effectively. I start writing more contents on best performing keywords and sub topics. So, these tools are very important for me. Thank you for reminding me, there exist world more than Google Analytics.
If you want to find your own traffic, it’s better to use tracking code and install Google analytics to know accurate information about your website. It tracks and reports website traffic, and gives you access to all the features and tools that you need to better understand your content and audience. Do let me know if you’ve any questions.
Hi Anil,
Every blogger must have an idea which type of traffic he/she is actually getting on his blog and these tools are just awesome, besides these i love to use jetpack stat on my wordpress blog and allow me to confess, it help me to scale new heights. Keep posting such wonderful ideas for us.
Yes, I agree with you completely Rakesh as monitoring your website’s traffic enables you to know who is visiting your website, where they are coming from and where they are going within your site – they all play a key role in understanding your audience even better so you can create the right kind of content and increase sales.
Hello Anil,
Very useful article you posted here.but i have a another question. How can i determine total number of backlinks of a website with correct information. Google webmaster only shows the backlinks which are indexed by the Google.plz tell me if there is any particular free tool for that.
Aditya I would say Google Webmaster Tools is the best way to find incoming links for your own websites. But when it comes about finding correct links for your competitors websites, you have to rely on Moz.com kind of paid SEO tools.
i think semrush doesnot work for indian websites
No, it works for almost any country or region in the world and it’s one of the few tools that provide you accurate information about any site; You should check this out (https://bloggerspassion.com/unbiased-semrush-review/), using it you can easily do competitor analysis, keyword tracking, SEO audit, keyword research and much more.
This is a very detailed post about checking stats. I will definitely check out some of the sites you’ve mentioned here. I so identify with what you’ve said about checking stats obsessively. I used to do that. Not anymore. I now spend my time in more value added things like creating valuable and original content, researching and learning how to promote my blog.
Checking website traffic stats is an addiction for few bloggers (just like checking their email or insta notifications). There’s nothing wrong in that though but you can use your time productively by analysing other people’s site stats instead of your own. That way you might come up with profitable topic ideas to grow your own site’s traffic.
All these are the nice way to calculate the traffic on website. Still I am using Alexa. Google Adplanner is quite complecated to me. I want to know more about the key concepts of this tool. would you please provide me some material for that so that i can easily use this wonderfull tool. and offcourse, great info shared by you. It will surely help to lot of newbies who want to make bright carrier in Digital marketing.
Yes, Google ad planner is definitely complicated to use and only allows you to find the right keywords to target for display ads, search ads, video ads and app ads, it doesn’t let you find traffic of other sites. It’s definitely a no for beginner users or those who are looking for an easier option to estimate traffic of a site.
I knew about BSA in the sense that they allow us to have their ads on our sites. However, I didn’t know those things that are mentioned here about BSA. Thanks for improving my knowledge.
As they say, traffic tracking and monitoring is very vital to your online website’s success. There is no better way to determine who much web traffic you’re getting than to track it than installing tracking code using Google analytics. BSA although provides great information but not much effective now, you can give a try to SEMrush once: https://bloggerspassion.com/unbiased-semrush-review/
Ad planner has been replaced by display planner; can anyone tell me how I can get the traffic data from display planner? I haven’t found any info on the subject yet…
Hi Anil,
I tried to use google ad planner, but its not working and has been replaced by google with some another tool. can you please help in that case?
Google Ad Planner is no more available. Its gone now. You need to use the other alternates that are available from the list. I will soon look at other ways we can use to get the estimated traffic on a website.
That’s an exhaustive list.
Have always depended on Alexa rankings to know about a competing blog. Even though it is not possible to get the exact traffic estimate of you competing blog, a combination of the above mentioned tools can help to get a fair idea of your competitors.
Thanks for checking out the list, yes, it’s definitely a huge post and as you said there are a ton of people who still depend on alexa ranking. To get accurate data you should check out tools like SEMrush: https://bloggerspassion.com/unbiased-semrush-review/ as it provides competitor analysis, keyword tracking, SEO audit, keyword research and much more.
Google Analytics. If you have registered with Google Analytics, it will give accurate traffic and other details about you site. You can also link other Google tools like Google Adsense with the Analytics, to plan your business accordingly.
Google Ad planner is really good. I have tried it and the analysis report has helped me a lot to figure out the inward traffic. But Alexa has disappointed me more than any thing else. Its been more than 9 months and still the figures are garbled and unclear. Is it necessary that I should install the Alexa tool bar to get real, authentic data?
I think lots of people are able to increase their websites alexa rank artificially. And in case you want to see Alexa Rankings for a website, you can do so by installing the Search Status Ad On for Mozilla Firefox.
You would not get much detailed analysis about a website traffic from Alexa. You should be using it to find the popularity and traffic trends in brief for that website.
Nadeem, SEMRUSH.COM has a lot of information, but it’s not as accurate as Google Adplanner used to be. For example for our site they said that SE Traffic for US is 829 and according to Google Analytics is 44.974, and they said that SE Traffic for Spain is 58.590 and in Analytics is 175.799. Google Adplanner used to be really accurate, but with the recent change they don’t show that information anymore, and I would love to find a good site with accurate traffic information.
I agree Google Ad Planner was quite accurate but it is no longer useful for this purpose =(
By the way I haven’t found anything free better than semrush!
That’s so true. As you said Google Adplanner was much more effective and used to be really accurate, but with the recent changes they aren’t showing much details, apart from that, you will get accurate data only for your own sites where the tracking code is installed. If you want to find other site’s traffic, you need to use the above mentioned tools.
Nadeem, thanks for suggesting this valuable tool for predicting the traffic to a website. I was not aware of this tool
Hi Anil,
I’ve been using Google Ad Planner Traffic statistics since I discovered it on 2010 and I completely agree with you that the Traffic information they used to show was the best.
But Google has changed Google Ad Planner and on the Traffic statistics they now only show:
-Unique visitors (cookies)
-Reach (cookies)
-Impressions / day
Alexa, Compete, QuantCast they are good to get estimates, but their estimates are not good for websites outside US.
Anyone knows a good alternative to Google Ad Planner with most of the Traffic statistics that they used to show?
-Unique visitors (estimated cookies)
-Unique visitors (users)
-Reach
-Page views
-Total visits
-Avg visits per cookie
-Avg time on site
Thank you!
Well, it works on old sites, some new sites would have no information about traffic even if they been on a web and Google for about 6 months. You can only check your site traffic through Google analytics, but this info available to website owner only.
Yes, that’s so true, if you want to find other’s traffic, you need to rely upon tools apart from Google (such as Alexa, SEMrush and so on). That being said, website traffic tracking and analysis helps you easily understand how your audience and content system works, and how you can benefit from outsourcing web analytics.
I tried checking this website (www.academicpapers.us) but no information came through, except on Alexa, but even so, Alexa listed it in Pakistan, while DomainTools lists it in the USA. Why is this so?
Frankly speaking, I don’t have any clear cut idea about why Alexa has listed this website in Pakistan. Other tools seems to be working for high traffic websites and blogs only. You will be able to get much data about websites that get few hundred visits every day type.
One of the best website traffic checking tool in my opinion is Alexa very easy to use with lot of quality futures.
If you are want to track traffic for a popular website, Google Ad Planner will give you more accurate traffic numbers.
Thanks Anil,
I am a new learner and find interesting to note the tools to check traffic on a website. I will try it and let you know. I want to have my own website on a traffic place. Could you identify it?
Bye!
Tariq, unable to understand your question properly. Please help me with your question again.
Hi,
I have been using Alexa.com and Google Analytics. Thanks for sharing others.
And i tried Google Ad Planner, entered the website URL,clicked arrow mark, Still nothing came out.
May be some problem from your end. I would suggest you try Google Ad Planner again. Google Ad Planner is a great way to know traffic details of your competitors website
Hi Anil,
The best website traffic checker I know is Alexa.com. Thanks for sharing the others! I will be looking into Google Ad Planner since it’s number 1 in your list.
I would recommend you must try Google Ad Planner. Google Ad Planner has been placed in first because it deserves this spot.
I would recommend you must try Google Ad Planner. Google Ad Planner has been placed in first because it deserves this spot.
Thank you for your post Anil.
I use 4 or these 5 methods but I’ve never used Google Adplanner, thank you for let me know this.
Hi Albert
Google Ad Planner looks most promising to me. Hopefully you would also love it.
Albert,
I’ve been using Google AdPlanner too. It never failed my expectations on how efficient it is in performing its job. You should check it out.
Very true. I’m a big fan of Google Ad Planner. I’m getting predictions very close to the actual traffic on a website through Google Ad Planner, amazing traffic prediction tool from Google.
Yes ! I’ve also using Google Keyword Planner but i think its not give me accurate data. All of this stats are just a guessing amount, not in real.
However SimilarWeb is works promising, not accurate. So you can cheackout it but its not provide low sites data