Website Traffic Estimators

Discussions focus on the accuracy, reliability, and discrepancies of web traffic measurement tools like Alexa, Quantcast, Compete, SimilarWeb, and StatCounter, with users comparing stats across sites and questioning their validity.

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adelevie Mar 22, 2010 View on HN

How do you know that Compete, Alexa, or Quantcast haven't undercounted Experts Exchange?

ballard Mar 24, 2014 View on HN

Look up their stats on quantcast and compete, tells a different story.

cutenewt Dec 8, 2021 View on HN

What's the best alternative for website traffic estimates?

cooldeal May 7, 2013 View on HN

Reference? StatCounter data seems to show the opposite of what you're stating.

TimLeland Feb 15, 2022 View on HN

SimilarWeb says 342K monthly visitors. Always curious how accurate these tools are.

TomGullen Mar 25, 2013 View on HN

Alexa rank can be a very poor gauge of real world traffic especially with low sample sizes

iomike Feb 13, 2013 View on HN

The number says 300 million, but my actual website stats, of over 1 million uniques per month, show it less than .75%

mrgreenfur Oct 13, 2011 View on HN

Neither http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stumbleupon.com nor http://www.quantcast.com/stumbleupon.com show anything nearly as dramatic...

maxklein Jul 23, 2011 View on HN

Seems to have very little traffic, when viewed in alex though.

amichail Mar 18, 2007 View on HN

Try comparing its traffic with reddit on alexa.